Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time

by Wai Chee Dimock

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What we call American literature is quite often a shorthand, a simplified name for an extended tangle of relations." This is the argument of Through Other Continents, Wai Chee Dimock's sustained effort to read American literature as a subset of world literature.

Inspired by an unorthodox archive--ranging from epic traditions in Akkadian and Sanskrit to folk art, paintings by Veronese and Tiepolo, and the music of the Grateful Dead--Dimock...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691114501

ISBN13:9780691114507

Release Date:November 2008

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:264 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"

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