Continental divides : revisioning American literature

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Label

Continental divides : revisioning American literature

Title remainder

revisioning American literature

Statement of responsibility

Anne E. Goldman

Creator

• Goldman, Anne E., 1960-

Subject

• American fiction -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism
• Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- West (U.S.)
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Frontier and pioneer life in literature
• American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• West (U.S.) -- In literature
• West (U.S.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
• Regionalism in literature

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"The essays in this volume juxtapose African American, Mexican American, and Anglo American fictions produced in the wake of both the Civil War and the U.S.-Mexican War, contiguous national conflicts that remain segregated in critical practice. At once comparative and intertextual, the readings in this study redefine western literature in its relation to other U.S. regional literary formations. Goldman's arguments question critical sectionalism as extensively as they do regional divisions by blurring generic distinctions, by reading across literary periods, and by juxtaposing writers who explore the same set of social issues during the same historical moment, but who are conventionally located in distinct literary traditions - sentimental literature, the African American novel, literary modernism, and early Mexican American fiction."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.309978

Index

index present

LC call number

PS271

LC item number

.G65 2000

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography