American Literature as World Literature (Literatures as World Literature)

"For better or worse, America lives in the age of "worlded" literature. Not the world literature of nations and nationalities considered from most powerful and wealthy to the least. And not the world literature found with a map. Rather, the worlded literature of individuals crossing borders, mixing stories, and speaking in dialect. Where translation struggles to be effective and background is itself another story. The "worlded" literature of the multinational corporate publishing industry where the global market is all. The essays in this collection, from some of the most distinguished figures in American studies and literature, explore what it means to consider American literature as world literature."--Bloomsbury Publishing. Cover Half-title Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments American Literature as World Literature: An Introduction Part 1: World, Worldings, Worldliness 1. American Literature and Its Shadow Worlds: Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Specters of Worldliness 2. Worldings of American Literature off the Cultural Radar 3. Who Needs American Literature?: From Emerson to Marcus and Sollors Part 2: Literature, Geopolitics, Globalization 4. Worlds of Americana 5. Political Serials: Tanner ‘88 to House of Cards 6. Welt literature? American Literature after Territorialism: Manifesto for a Twenty-First-Century Critical Agenda 7. Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy in American World Literature Part 3: Experience, Poetics, New Worlds 8. Whitman’s Polyvocal Poetic Revolution: Equality and Empire in New World Literature 9. Experience to Experiment, Signs to Signals: Toward Flusser’s New World 10. Un-Making American Literature: Mind-Making Fictions of the Literary Part 4: History and the American Novel 11. Last American Stories and Their Adventurous Sequels 12. Transhuman Poetics and American World Literature: James Baldwin’s Demon of History in Just Above My Head 13. The Pathos of History: Trauma in Siri Hustvedt’s The Sorrows of an American Notes on Contributors Index