| Description |
x, 208 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Horizons in theory and American culture
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-202) and index. |
| Contents |
Toward identity and beyond / Bainard Cowan -- Moses and intertextuality : Sigmund Freud, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Bible / Barbara Johnson -- "To weave it into the literature of the country" : epic and the fictions of African American women / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- Latin America and comparative literatures / Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria -- Magical ruins/magical realism : Alejo Carpentier, Francois de Nome, and the New World Baroque / Lois Parkinson Zamora -- Interviews with the bridge-keeper : encounters between cultures as phantasmagorized in Monty Python and the Holy Grail / Mireille Rosello -- Holocaust and the victimary revolution / Eric Gans -- Columbus, the ocean blue, and fables that stir the mind : to reinvent the study of letters / Sylvia Wynter -- Field of islands / Edouard Glissant (translated by Jefferson Humphries). |
| Subject |
Literature and society -- America.
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America -- Literatures -- History and criticism.
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America -- Civilization.
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| Added Author |
Cowan, Bainard.
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Humphries, Jefferson, 1955-
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| ISBN |
0807121819 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0807121428 (alk. paper) |
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