Through Other Continents : American Literature across Deep Time

The Resource Through Other Continents : American Literature across Deep Time
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Through Other Continents : American Literature across Deep Time
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American Literature across Deep Time
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eng
Summary
What we call American literature is quite often a shorthand, a simplified name for an extended tangle of relations." This is the argument of Through Other Continents, Wai Chee Dimock's sustained effort to read American literature as a subset of world literature. Inspired by an unorthodox archive--ranging from epic traditions in Akkadian and Sanskrit to folk art, paintings by Veronese and Tiepolo, and the music of the Grateful Dead--Dimock constructs a long history of the world, a history she calls "deep time." The civilizations of Mesopotamia, India, Egypt, China, and West Africa, as well as E
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MERUC
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810.9
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no index present
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PS157 .D56 2008
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non fiction
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dictionaries

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