Magazine article from our research archive:

Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time

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 ...

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:

See all results. Or, try our Advanced Search.

Newsweek Harper's Magazine The Washington Post Chicago Tribune Crain's Chicago Business PRNewswire Pediatric News The Nation Advertising Age The Economist (US) A FREE trial gives you access to over 60 million articles! Access over 3,500 publications with a FREE trial!