Fictions of America : Narratives of Global Empire

ISBN-13: 9780415333832 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 208 str.

Newman Judie; Judie Newman

Opis

Looks at the ways in which India, China and Africa can be said to have underwritten American culture, how literature has been marketed globally, and how novelists have answered back to power with resistant fictions. This book provides a response to the questions raised by globalisation.

Recenzje

'As a collection of loosely connected essays informed by close textual anayses of a variety of literary works... it has to be lauded.' - Malini Schueller, Journal of American Studies

Spis treści

Introduction The West Coast Offense  1. Red Letters : Hester Prynne in India and Arizona  2. In the Missionary Position : Emily Prager in China  3. Black Atlantic or Black Athena? Globalising the African American Story  4. Local Life, Global Death : David Bradley ‘s Surrogate Stories  5. Going Global : from Danish postcolonial novel to world bestseller  6. Southern Apes: McCarthy’s Neotenous Killers  7. Priority Narratives : Bharati Mukherjee’s Desirable Daughters.  Conclusion

O autorze

Judie Newman (Professor of American Studies, University of Nottingham, Fellow of the English Association) is the author of seven books on American and postcolonial literature, a past President of the British Association for American Studies, and recipient of the Arthur Miller Prize in American studies.