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ISBN: 1282964518 9786612964510 1400836514 9781400836512 9781282964518 9780691136134 0691136130 0691180784 Year: 2011 Publisher: Princeton, NJ
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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.
ISBN: 1282665758 9786612665752 1400827930 9781400827930 9780691128757 0691128758 9781282665750 6612665750 Year: 2007 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,
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Partition--the idea of separating Jews and Arabs along ethnic or national lines--is a legacy at least as old as the Zionist-Palestinian conflict. Challenging the widespread "separatist imagination" behind partition, Gil Hochberg demonstrates the ways in which works of contemporary Jewish and Arab literature reject simple notions of separatism and instead display complex configurations of identity that emphasize the presence of alterity within the self--the Jew within the Arab, and the Arab within the Jew. In Spite of Partition examines Hebrew, Arabic, and French works that are largely unknown to English readers to reveal how, far from being independent, the signifiers "Jew" and "Arab" are inseparable. In a series of original close readings, Hochberg analyzes fascinating examples of such inseparability. In the Palestinian writer Anton Shammas's Hebrew novel Arabesques, the Israeli and Palestinian protagonists are a "schizophrenic pair" who "have not yet decided who is the ventriloquist of whom." And in the Moroccan Jewish writer Albert Swissa's Hebrew novel Aqud, the Moroccan-Israeli main character's identity is uneasily located between the "Moroccan Muslim boy he could have been" and the "Jewish Israeli boy he has become." Other examples draw attention to the intricate linguistic proximity of Hebrew and Arabic, the historical link between the traumatic memories of the Jewish Holocaust and the Palestinian Nakbah, and the libidinal ties that bind Jews and Arabs despite, or even because of, their current animosity.
Zionism in literature. --- Arabic fiction --- Arab-Israeli conflict --- Jews in literature. --- Jewish-Arab relations in literature. --- Israeli fiction --- Palestinian Arabs in literature. --- Arab-Israeli conflict in literature --- Israel-Arab conflicts in literature --- History and criticism. --- Literature and the conflict. --- Israel --- Ethnic relations. --- History and criticism --- A. B. Yehoshua. --- AMIT. --- Abjection. --- Aliyah. --- Alterity. --- Amalek. --- Ambiguity. --- Ambivalence. --- Anonymity. --- Anton Shammas. --- Arab Jews. --- Arab citizens of Israel. --- Arabs. --- Ari Shavit. --- Azmi Bishara. --- Being and Nothingness. --- Biculturalism. --- Bishara. --- Chadash. --- Chutzpah. --- Codependency. --- Colonialism. --- Constantine P. Cavafy. --- Cover-up. --- Criticism. --- Dan Miron. --- Darwish. --- Deleuze and Guattari. --- Deterritorialization. --- Edward Said. --- Elie Kedourie. --- Ella Shohat. --- Ethnocentrism. --- Exclusion. --- Fawaz. --- Georges Bataille. --- Haskalah. --- Ibn Kathir. --- Ideology. --- Imperialism. --- Irony. --- Israelis. --- Jacques Derrida. --- Jewish identity. --- Jews. --- Joseph Massad. --- Judaism. --- Judith Butler. --- Language policy. --- Law of Return. --- Liberalism. --- Literature. --- Ma'abarot. --- Margaret Larkin. --- Memoir. --- Metonymy. --- Mizrahi Jews. --- Monoculturalism. --- Narrative. --- National language. --- New antisemitism. --- Opportunism. --- Orientalism. --- Originality. --- Orthodox Judaism. --- Palestinian nationalism. --- Palestinian refugees. --- Palestinians. --- Postmodernism. --- Pretext. --- Proverb. --- Racism. --- Reactionary. --- Repressed memory. --- Resistance movement. --- Ressentiment. --- S. Yizhar. --- Saree Makdisi. --- Sayed Kashua. --- Secularism. --- Self-image. --- Separatism. --- Shlomo. --- Shukri. --- Sovereignty. --- Subjectivity. --- Superiority (short story). --- Taunting. --- The Colonizer and the Colonized. --- The Other Hand. --- Tom Segev. --- Tommy Lapid. --- Uri Davis. --- Western thought. --- Writing. --- Yair Auron. --- Yaron Tsur. --- Yeshiva. --- Ze'ev. --- Zionism.
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