عنوان

Reading American novels and multicultural aesthetics ;

0230610285

9780230610286

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Reading American novels and multicultural aesthetics ;

[Book]

Romancing the postmodern novel /

Louis Freitas Caton.

Basingstoke :

Palgrave Macmillan,

2007.

1 online resource (284 pages)

Samuel Coleridge and European Romanticism: An Interpretive Strategy for America's Literary Canon * Dialectical and Transcultural Contexts: Otherness, Subjectivity, and Coleridge's Vision * Historical and Ideological Contexts: The Burden of F.O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance * Multicultural and Postcolonial Contexts: Philosophy's Self and Other * Poststructual Contexts: Paul de Man's Uncertainty Anxiety and the Allegory of Division * A South Western Laguna Native American Perspective: Western Eyes and Indian Visions in Leslie Marmon Silkos's Ceremony * A Korean American Perspective: Tolerating Truth and Knowledge in Chang-Rae Lee's Native Speaker * A South Los Angeles Mexican American Perspective: Empty Hope and Full Sensuality in Luis Rodriguez's Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A * An Antigua Caribbean American Perspective: The Quest for Empowerment in Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John * A White European American Perspective: Imagining Family and Community in Don DeLillo's White Noise * Feeling Romantic, Thinking Postmodern: Last Words on Form in a Multicultural Age.

Preface: Entering the House that Romanticism Built; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Romancing the Canon and the Broad Argument for a Post-Metaphysics; Theory: Samuel Coleridge and European Romanticism: An Interpretive Strategy for America's Literary Canon; 1 Dialectical and Transcultural Contexts: Otherness, Subjectivity, and Coleridge's Vision; 2 Historical and Ideological Contexts: The Burden of F.O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance; 3 Multicultural and Postcolonial Contexts: Philosophy's Self and Other.

4 Poststructural Contexts: Paul de Man's Uncertainty Anxiety and the Allegory of DivisionPractice: Romantic Critical Readings of America's Contemporary Novel; 5 A Southwestern Laguna Native American Perspective: Western Eyes and Indian Visions in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony; 6 A Korean American Perspective: Tolerating Truth and Knowledge in Chang-Rae Lee's Native Speaker; 7 A South Los Angeles Mexican American Perspective: Empty Hope and Full Sensuality in Luis Rodriguez's Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.

8 An Antigua Caribbean American Perspective: The Quest for Empowerment in Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John9 A White European American Perspective: Imagining Family and Community in Don DeLillo's White Noise; Conclusion: Feeling Romantic, Thinking Postmodern: Last Words on Form in a Multicultural Age; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.

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