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This book charts how the cartographies of American literature as an institutional category have varied radically across different times and places. Arguing that American literature was consolidated as a distinctively nationalist entity only in the wake of the U.S. Civil War, Paul Giles identifies this formation as extending until the beginning of the Reagan presidency in 1981. He contrasts this with the more amorphous boundaries of American culture in the eighteenth century, and with ways in which conditions of globalization at the turn of the twenty-first century have reconfigured the parameters of the subject. In light of these fluctuating conceptions of space, Giles suggests new ways of understanding the shifting territory of American literary history. ranging from Cotton Mather to David Foster Wallace, and from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Zora Neale Hurston. Giles considers why European medievalism and Native American prehistory were crucial to classic nineteenth-century authors such as Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville. He discusses how twentieth-century technological innovations, such as air travel, affected representations of the national domain in the texts of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein. And he analyzes how regional projections of the South and the Pacific Northwest helped to shape the work of writers such as William Gilmore Simms, José Martí, Elizabeth Bishop, and William Gibson. Bringing together literary analysis, political history, and cultural geography, The Global Remapping of American Literature reorients the subject for the transnational era.

National characteristics, American, in literature. --- Regionalism in literature. --- Space in literature. --- Boundaries in literature. --- Geography in literature. --- American literature --- Topography in literature --- History and criticism. --- United States --- In literature. --- American Civil War. --- American Renaissance. --- American South. --- American broadcasting. --- American culture. --- American literary studies. --- American literature. --- Augustan American literature. --- Cotton Mather. --- Dave Eggers. --- David Foster Wallace. --- Don DeLillo. --- Douglas Coupland. --- Elizabeth Bishop. --- European medievalism. --- F. O. Matthiessen. --- F. Scott Fitzgerald. --- Flix Guattari. --- Gary Snyder. --- Gertrude Stein. --- Gilles Deleuze. --- Jos Mart. --- Magnalia Christi Americana. --- Nathaniel Hawthorne. --- Native Americans. --- New England. --- Pacific Northwest. --- Philip Roth. --- Phillis Wheatley. --- Ralph Waldo Emerson. --- Richard Brautigan. --- South America. --- Timothy Dwight. --- Toni Morrison. --- U.S. national identity. --- Ursula Le Guin. --- Voice of America. --- Wallace Stevens. --- William Dean Howells. --- William Faulkner. --- William Gibson. --- William Gilmore Simms. --- Zora Neale Hurston. --- allegory. --- antebellum narratives. --- cartography. --- deterritorialization. --- electronic media. --- extravagance. --- geography. --- globalization. --- liberal democracy. --- medieval American literature. --- medievalism. --- metaregionalism. --- modernism. --- narratives. --- national space. --- place. --- plantations. --- poetry. --- pseudo-geography. --- regionalism. --- social boundaries. --- space. --- technological innovations. --- transnationalism.

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The Francophone Caribbean and the American South are sites born of the plantation, the common matrix for the diverse nations and territories of the circum-Caribbean. This book takes as its premise that the basic configuration of the plantation, in terms of its physical layout and the social relations it created, was largely the same in the Caribbean and the American South. Essays written by leading authorities in the field examine the cultural, social, and historical affinities between the Francophone Caribbean and the American South, including Louisiana, which among the Southern states has had a quite particular attachment to France and the Francophone world. The essays focus on issues of history, language, politics and culture in various forms, notably literature, music and theatre. Considering figures as diverse as Barack Obama, Frantz Fanon, Miles Davis, James Brown, Edouard Glissant, William Faulkner, Maryse Condé and Lafcadio Hearn, the essays explore in innovative ways the notions of creole culture and creolization, terms rooted in and indicative of contact between European and African people and cultures in the Americas, and which are promoted here as some of the most productive ways for conceiving of the circum-Caribbean as a cultural and historical entity.

French literature (outside France) --- Sociology of culture --- USA: South --- Americas - General --- Creoles. --- Caribbean, French-speaking --- North America, French-speaking --- French-speaking Caribbean --- Francophone North America --- French-speaking North America --- Civilization. --- Racially mixed people --- Kreolen --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Literature. --- French literature --- Caribbean literature (French Creole) --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- HISTORY --- Literary studies: from c 1900. --- Literary studies: general. --- Literature: history and criticism. --- Literature and literary studies. --- American literature --- Foreign countries. --- Caribbean & Latin American. --- Caribbean & West Indies --- General. --- Caribbean authors. --- History and criticism. --- Karibik --- USA --- Southern States. --- Caribbean Area. --- Southern States --- Caribbean Area --- Südstaaten --- In literature. --- Caribbean French Creole literature --- Creole literature, Caribbean French --- French Creole literature, Caribbean --- Caribbean literature --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Culture --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Lateinamerika --- Louisiana --- Westindien --- Surinam --- Brasilien --- Guayana --- Criollos --- Crioulos --- Caribbean Free Trade Association countries --- Caribbean Region --- Caribbean Sea Region --- West Indies Region --- American South --- American Southeast --- Former Confederate States --- Southeast --- Southeast United States --- Southeastern States --- Southern United States --- The South --- U.S. --- United States, Southern --- Nordamerikanische Südstaaten --- Konföderierte Staaten von Amerika --- Confederate States of America --- Südliche Vereinigte Staaten --- Südatlantische Staaten --- Südöstliche Staaten --- Karibischer Raum --- Annals --- Criticism --- Evaluation of literature --- Literary criticism --- Literature --- Rhetoric --- Aesthetics --- World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997 --- Technique --- Evaluation --- Dixie (U.S. : Region) --- South, The --- Southeast (U.S.) --- ABŞ --- ABSh --- Ameerika Ühendriigid --- America (Republic) --- Amerika Birlăshmish Shtatlary --- Amerika Birlăşmi Ştatları --- Amerika Birlăşmiş Ştatları --- Amerika ka Kelenyalen Jamanaw --- Amerika Qūrama Shtattary --- Amerika Qŭshma Shtatlari --- Amerika Qushma Shtattary --- Amerika (Republic) --- Amerikai Egyesült Államok --- Amerikanʹ Veĭtʹsėndi︠a︡vks Shtattnė --- Amerikări Pĕrleshu̇llĕ Shtatsem --- Amerikas Forenede Stater --- Amerikayi Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Ameriketako Estatu Batuak --- Amirika Carékat --- AQSh --- Ar. ha-B. --- Arhab --- Artsot ha-Berit --- Artzois Ha'bris --- Bí-kok --- Ē.P.A. --- EE.UU. --- Egyesült Államok --- ĒPA --- Estados Unidos --- Estados Unidos da América do Norte --- Estados Unidos de América --- Estaos Xuníos --- Estaos Xuníos d'América --- Estatos Unitos --- Estatos Unitos d'America --- Estats Units d'Amèrica --- Ètats-Unis d'Amèrica --- États-Unis d'Amérique --- Fareyniḳṭe Shṭaṭn --- Feriene Steaten --- Feriene Steaten fan Amearika --- Forente stater --- FS --- Hēnomenai Politeiai Amerikēs --- Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- Hiwsisayin Amerikayi Miatsʻeal Tērutʻiwnkʻ --- Istadus Unidus --- Jungtinės Amerikos valstybės --- Mei guo --- Mei-kuo --- Meiguo --- Mî-koet --- Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Miguk --- Na Stàitean Aonaichte --- NSA --- S.U.A. --- SAD --- Saharat ʻAmērikā --- SASht --- Severo-Amerikanskie Shtaty --- Severo-Amerikanskie Soedinennye Shtaty --- Si︠e︡vero-Amerikanskīe Soedinennye Shtaty --- Sjedinjene Američke Države --- Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Severnoĭ Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Si︠e︡vernoĭ Ameriki --- Spojené obce severoamerické --- Spojené staty americké --- SShA --- Stadoù-Unanet Amerika --- Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá --- Stany Zjednoczone --- Stati Uniti --- Stati Uniti d'America --- Stâts Unîts --- Stâts Unîts di Americhe --- Steatyn Unnaneysit --- Steatyn Unnaneysit America --- SUA (Stati Uniti d'America) --- Sŭedineni amerikanski shtati --- Sŭedinenite shtati --- Tetã peteĩ reko Amérikagua --- U.S.A. --- United States of America --- Unol Daleithiau --- Unol Daleithiau America --- Unuiĝintaj Ŝtatoj de Ameriko --- US --- Usono --- Vaeinigte Staatn --- Vaeinigte Staatn vo Amerika --- Vereinigte Staaten --- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika --- Verenigde State van Amerika --- Verenigde Staten --- VS --- VSA --- Wááshindoon Bikéyah Ałhidadiidzooígíí --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amirīkīyah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amrīkīyah --- Yhdysvallat --- Yunaeted Stet --- Yunaeted Stet blong Amerika --- ZDA --- Združene države Amerike --- Zʹi︠e︡dnani Derz︠h︡avy Ameryky --- Zjadnośone staty Ameriki --- Zluchanyi︠a︡ Shtaty Ameryki --- Zlucheni Derz︠h︡avy --- ZSA --- Η.Π.Α. --- Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες της Αμερικής --- Америка (Republic) --- Американь Вейтьсэндявкс Штаттнэ --- Америкӑри Пӗрлешӳллӗ Штатсем --- САЩ --- Съединените щати --- Злучаныя Штаты Амерыкі --- ولايات المتحدة --- ولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة --- ولايات المتحدة الامريكية --- 미국 --- Creoles --- Languages --- Francophone --- Caribbean --- Creole language --- Jazz --- Louisiana Creole people --- Martinique --- New Orleans --- Saint-Domingue --- William Faulkner