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Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time
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July 1, 2007
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The Longue Durée of U.S. Literature WAI CHEE DIMOCK, Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006), pp. 264, cloth, $35.00.
With Through Other Continents Wai Chee Dimock joins a growing number of Americanists searching for ways of describing literature beyond national and regional boundaries. The standard form that post-national studies takes is to show how truly cosmopolitan and international a given writer or literary movement is and how literary cultures elsewhere are engaged in a dialogue with canonical U.S. texts. A number of recent books look at the ways that foundational concepts like American exceptionalism and national character are ...
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