American Literature in the World

An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler
Herausgeber: Dimock, Wai-Chee

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Produktbeschreibung

American Literature in the World is an innovative anthology offering a new way to understand the global forces that have shaped the making of American literature. The wide-ranging selections are structured around five interconnected nodes: war; food; work, play, and travel; religions; and human and nonhuman interfaces.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 166mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 950g
• ISBN-13: 9780231157360
• ISBN-10: 0231157363
• Artikelnr.: 45001561

Autorenporträt

Wai Chee Dimock is William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. Her most recent books are Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature (2007) and Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time (2006). Editor of PMLA, and a film critic for the Los Angeles Review of Books, her essays have also appeared in Critical Inquiry, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the New York Times, and the New Yorker. Jordan Brower is a graduate student at Yale University. Edgar Garcia is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago. Kyle Hutzler works for McKinsey & Company. Nicholas Rinehart is a graduate student at Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction I. War Beginnings Anne Bradstreet
"Semiramis" Louise Glück
"Parable of the Hostages" William Carlos Williams
"The Destruction of Tenochtitlan" Elizabeth Bishop
"Brazil
January 1
1502" William Apess
"Eulogy on King Philip" French Revolution
1789–1799 Thomas Jefferson
Letter to General Lafayette
June 16
1792 Haitian Revolution
1791–1804 Thomas Jefferson
Letter to James Monroe
July 14
1793 Victor Séjour
"The Mulatto" Mexican War
1846–1848 Henry David Thoreau
"Resistance to Civil Government" Revolutionary Europe
1848–1849 Margaret Fuller
Dispatch 29 Spanish-American War
1898–1902 Stephen Crane
"Stephen Crane's Vivid Story of the Battle of San Juan" Mark Twain
"Incident in the Philippines" John Ashbery
"Memories of Imperialism" World War I
1914–1918 Edith Wharton
Fighting France Rita Dove
"The Return of Lieutenant James Reese Europe" Spanish Civil War
1936–1939 Muriel Rukeyser
Mediterranean Langston Hughes
"Harlem Swing and Spanish Shells" Langston Hughes
"General Franco's Moors" Philip Levine
"To P.L.
1916–1937" World War II
1939–1945 Gertrude Stein
Brewsie and Willie T. S. Eliot
"Little Gidding
" from Four Quartets Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Art Spiegelman
Maus Jorie Graham
"Soldatenfriedhof" William Faulkner
"Two Soldiers" Norman Mailer
The Naked and the Dead John Hersey
Hiroshima Leslie Marmon Silko
Ceremony Chang-Rae Lee
A Gesture Life Philip K. Dick
The Man in the High Castle Korean War
1950–1953 Thomas McGrath
"Ode for the American Dead in Asia" Myung Mi Kim
"Under Flag" Cuban Revolution
1959 Jay Cantor
The Death of Che Guevara Vietnam War
1955–1975 Michael Herr
Dispatches Yusef Komunyakaa
"Tu Do Street" W. S. Merwin
"The Asians Dying" Maxine Hong Kingston
China Men Latin American State Violence
1947–1991 Joan Didion
Salvador Junot Díaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Middle Eastern Conflict
1991–present Philip Roth
Operation Shylock Michael Chabon
The Yiddish Policemen's Union Naomi Shihab Nye
"For Mohammed Zeid of Gaza
Age 15" II. Food Scarcity and Hunger Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
La Relación Mary Rowlandson
The Sovereignty and Goodness of God Louise Erdrich
"Captivity" Theodore Roosevelt
The Rough Riders E. E. Cummings
The Enormous Room Amy Tan
The Kitchen God's Wife Ha Jin
War Trash Sharon Olds
"The Food-Thief" Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness Procuring
Preparing
and Consuming Herman Melville
"Stubb's Supper
" from Moby-Dick Jack London
"The Water Baby" Upton Sinclair
The Jungle Willa Cather
Death Comes for the Archbishop Alice B. Toklas
The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook Monique Truong
The Book of Salt Natasha Trethewey
"Kitchen Maid with Supper at Emmaus
or The Mulata after the painting by Diego Velazquez
ca. 1619" Oscar Hijuelos
Our House in the Last World Cristina García
Dreaming in Cuban Jamaica Kincaid
Annie John Julia Alvarez
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents Edwidge Danticat
Breath
Eyes
Memory Jhumpa Lahiri
"When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine" Allen Ginsberg
"One Morning I Took a Walk in China" Gerald Vizenor
Griever: An American Monkey King in China Ruth Ozeki
My Year of Meats Gary Shteyngart
Absurdistan Brainy Fruit Marianne Moore
"Nine Nectarines and Other Porcelain" Gary Snyder
"Mu Chi's Persimmons" Richard Blanco
"Mango No. 61" III. Work
Play
Travel Varieties of Fieldwork Frederick Douglass
Letter to William Lloyd Garrison
March 27
1846 Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Marble Faun Henry James
The American Richard Wright
Black Power Norman Rush
Mating Robert Hass
"Ezra Pound's Proposition" Robert Pinsky
"The Banknote" Karen Tei Yamashita
Through the Arc of the Rain Forest Agha Shahid Ali
"In Search of Evanescence" Rivalries and Partnerships Herman Melville
"The Monkey Rope
" from Moby-Dick Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin W. E. B. Du Bois
Dark Princess John Steinbeck
East of Eden Langston Hughes
"Something in Common" James Baldwin
"Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown" Maya Angelou
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes Ishmael Reed
Flight to Canada Audre Lorde
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name Raymond Chandler
The Long Goodbye Rolando Hinojosa
Partners in Crime Sherman Alexie
"The Game Between the Jews and the Indians Is Tied Going Into the Bottom of the Ninth Inning" Music-Making Walt Whitman
"Proud Music of the Storm" Claude McKay
Banjo Amiri Baraka
Blues People Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon Robert Pinsky
"Ginza Samba" IV. Religions Faith Without Dogma Olaudah Equiano
The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano George Washington
Letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport
August 21
1790 Benjamin Franklin
"A Parable Against Persecution" Thomas Paine
"Profession of Faith" Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Divinity School Address" Herman Melville
"A Bosom Friend
" from Moby-Dick Emily Dickinson
"The Bible is an Antique Volume" and "Apparently with No Surprise" Zitkala-Ša
"Why I Am a Pagan" Vernacular Devotions Zora Neale Hurston
Moses
Man of the Mountain Gloria Anzaldúa
Borderlands/La Frontera N. Scott Momaday
House Made of Dawn Denise Levertov
"The Altars in the Street" Gary Snyder
"Grace" Jack Kerouac
The Dharma Bums Joanne Kyger
"Here in Oaxaca It's the Night of the Radishes" Many Islams Washington Irving
"Legend of the Arabian Astrologer" Paul Bowles
The Spider's House Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X John Updike
Terrorist Mohsin Hamid
The Reluctant Fundamentalist The Grateful Dead
"Blues for Allah" V. Human and Nonhuman Interfaces Ants Henry David Thoreau
Walden Marianne Moore
"Critics and Connoisseurs" Ezra Pound
Canto LXXX I Robert Lowell
"Ants" Toni Morrison
Tar Baby Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible Commodities and Markets Elizabeth Alexander
"Amistad" Herman Melville
"The Advocate
" from Moby-Dick Frank Norris
The Octopus John Dos Passos
The Big Money Dave Eggers and Valentino Achak Deng
What Is the What Destructive Agents Jack London
"The Scarlet Plague" Saul Bellow
Henderson the Rain King Robert Frost
"Fire and Ice" Carl Sandburg
"Buttons" Randall Jarrell
"The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" Adrienne Rich
"The School Among the Ruins" Brian Turner
"Here
Bullet" George Oppen
"The Crowded Countries of the Bomb" Denise Levertov
"Dom Helder Camara at the Nuclear Test Site" Nonhuman Intelligence Isaac Asimov
I
Robot Richard Powers
Galatea 2.2 William Gibson
Neuromancer Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles Philip K. Dick
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Octavia Butler
Dawn Notes Permissions Index of Authors General Index