A HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE

A HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE

BY Richard Gray

Updated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of American Literature from pre-Columbian times to the present.

• The most comprehensive and up-to-date history of American literature available today

• Covers fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction, as well as other forms of literature including folktale, spirituals, the detective story, the thriller, and science fiction

• Explores the plural character of American literature, including the contributions made by African American, Native American, Hispanic and Asian American writers

• Considers how our understanding of American literature has changed over the past?thirty years

• Situates American literature in the contexts of American history, politics and society

• Offers an invaluable introduction to American literature for students at all levels, academic and general readers.

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BEYOND THE BORDERS: AMERICAN LITERATURE AND POSTCOLONIAL THEORY

BEYOND THE BORDERS: AMERICAN LITERATURE AND POSTCOLONIAL THEORY

By Deborah L. Madsen

The contributors to this book challenge the usual boundaries of 'post-colonial' theory. Focusing on American literature, they examine how America's own imperial history has shaped the literatures that have emerged from within America -- for instance, from Native American, Latino, Black and Asian-American writers. They contrast this with postcolonial literatures from countries whose history has been shaped by American colonialism -- from Canada, Central America and the Caribbean to Hawaii, Indonesia and Vietnam. In this way the contributors explore key questions about national identity and multiculturalism: why, for instance, is a Native writer categorised within 'American literature' if writing on one side of the border, but as 'Canadian' and 'post-colonial' if writing on the other? This is a challenging collection that raises questions not only about the boundaries of post-colonial theory, but also about ethnicity and multiculturalism, and the impact of immigration and assimilation -- issues that lie at the heart of the literary curriculum.

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