Winfried Siemerling

The New North American Studies

Culture, Writing and the Politics of Re/Cognition

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Produktbeschreibung

In this original and ground-breaking study, Winfried Siemerling examines the complexities of recognition and identity, rejecting previous nationalized thinking to approach North American cultural transformations from transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives. Using material from the United States and Canada as case studies and drawing on a wide range of texts and theorists, he examines postcoloniality and cultural emergence from the sixties to the present against earlier backgrounds. Siemerling's argument for a retheorization of the field takes on the full history of multiculturalism debates, including radical readings of W.E.B. Du Bois and Charles Taylor and their relation to G.W.F. Hegel, and challenging many of the models of multiculturalism in use today. Tackling controversial subjects such as identity politics, "he New North American Studies" proposes a fresh outlook on the most central issues of North American cultural politics, from debates on canon formation to the role of racial and linguistic difference. Concluding with a look at the future of cultural difference, Winfried Siemerling's study is an innovative rethinking of the whole field of North American Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780415335973
• ISBN-10: 0415335973
• Artikelnr.: 21745193

Autorenporträt

Siemerling, Winfried

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Comparative North American literary history
alterity
and a hermenuitics of non-transcendence 3. W.E.B. Du Bois
Hegel
and the staging of alterity 4. Double consciousness
African American tradition
and the vernacular: Henry Louis Gates and Houston Baker 5. Native writing
orality
and anti-imperial translation: Thomas King and Gerald Vizenor 6. Genealogies of difference