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boundary 2 (2016) 43 (2): 163–178.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Jeffrey J. Williams “American Literature in the World” is an interview with the literary critic Wai Chee Dimock, in which she discusses her efforts to extend the field of American literature, over time and to various continents, for instance seeing the use of the ancient epic Gilgamesh...
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boundary 2 (2000) 27 (2): 45–72.
Published: 01 May 2000
...Richard Rambuss Duke University Press 2000 6084 boundary 2 27:2 / sheet 53 of 227
Spenser and Milton at Mardi Gras: English Literature, American
Cultural Capital, and the Reformation of New Orleans Carnival...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (2): 71–87.
Published: 01 May 2010
... Bercovitch's new Cambridge History of American Literature . Tanner reflects on the original Cambridge History of American Literature and T. S. Eliot's 1919 review of it, moves on to consider the reshaping of value within American cultural self-assessment associated with Van Wyck Brooks, Vernon L. Parrington...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (1): 139–176.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Joe Cleary Though canons and faculty have greatly diversified in recent decades, English departments around the world fundamentally prioritize English and American literatures. To this extent, they resemble the Anglo-American imperial commonwealths that some toward the end of the nineteenth century...
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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (3): 89–115.
Published: 01 August 2019
... the transnational impulses in recent Asian American literature. Using asymmetry as an analytical lens, it then provides a critical interpretation of Ruth Ozeki’s important novel A Tale for the Time Being (2013) to consider the intricate connections between Asia and North America that are embedded...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (1): 67–85.
Published: 01 February 2015
...Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott From the beginning, the work of William V. Spanos has been characterized by a secular vocation, the confrontation with historical relations of power and subordination. His writings on American literature, contemporary humanities, and the Harvard Red Book, along with his...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (3): 59–86.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Lee Konstantinou This essay investigates the common charge that contemporary US fiction and the literature of 9/11 have failed to meaningfully engage with the world. While it is true that American fiction has become increasingly insular and that the New York City-based publishing industry...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (2): 125–143.
Published: 01 May 2009
... to imagine a new progressivism in Capitalism and Christianity, American Style . Duke University Press 2009 Do They Believe in Magic? Politics and Postmodern Literature
John A. McClure
“You should really try and make an adult...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (2): 105–134.
Published: 01 May 2015
... American literature; a short
list of works to treat the theme would include Jorge Luis Borges’s “Deutsches Requiem”
(1946), José Emilio Pacheco’s Morirás lejos (1967; trans. You Will Die in a Distant Land,
1991), Ricardo Piglia’s Respiración artificial (1980; trans. Artificial Respiration, 1994...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (2): 55–66.
Published: 01 May 2009
... before Native Speaker, for instance,
novels by African American women, from The Color Purple (1982) by Alice
Walker to Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison, won major attention and brought
discussions of literature to an audience far wider than usual. The Woman
Warrior (1976) by Maxine Hong Kingston...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 1–27.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of California Book of North African Literature , volume 4 of Poems for the Millennium ), and the importance of French poet Edmond Jabès. He goes on to address his choice to write in his fourth language, English, and the formative readings of American poetry and his connection to some of the New American Poets...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (2): 11–30.
Published: 01 May 2009
..., Fall 1944, 420.
. Harrison Smith, “Chaos, Fear & the Modern Novel,” Saturday Review of Literature,
June 3, 1950, 22.
16 boundary 2 / Summer 2009
note in this threnody: Life ran an editorial unsubtly titled “Fiction in the U.S.:
We Need a Novelist to Re-Create American Values Instead...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (2): 241–256.
Published: 01 May 2017
... “Invisible Man” to “Three Days before the Shooting” ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2010 ). © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Ralph Ellison digital age American literature security state politics References Baker Jeff . 2010 . “Q&A with John Callahan...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (3): 225–227.
Published: 01 August 2012
...: Between Universalism and Indigenism, and a
coeditor of Global Capitalism and the Future of Agrarian Society.
Bradley J. Fest received his MFA in poetry from the University of Pittsburgh, where
he is now a PhD candidate studying nineteenth twentieth and twenty-first-century
American literature. He...
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boundary 2 (2003) 30 (2): 221–223.
Published: 01 May 2003
... professor of English and comparative literary studies at
Northwestern University. He works in philosophical aesthetics, British and American
literary modernisms, and African American literature and film. He has just completed
a book manuscript entitled The Language of Wanting: Aesthetic Modernism...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (3): 219–221.
Published: 01 August 2014
... © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Contributors
Eric Cheyfitz is Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters
at Cornell University, where he teaches American literatures, American Indian lit-
eratures, and federal Indian law. In addition to three books...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (3): 185–186.
Published: 01 August 2013
...
The Legacy of David Foster Wallace and wrote the novel Pop Apocalypse. He is cur-
rently completing a literary history of countercultural irony in American fiction after
World War II.
Dotan Leshem is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Comparative Literature and
Society at Columbia University. His...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (3): 173–196.
Published: 01 August 2018
... and the Place of the Literary .” American Literary History 10 , no. 3 : 544 – 67 . Brooker Peter Thacker Andrew , eds. 2005 . Geographies of Modernism: Literatures, Cultures, Spaces . New York : Routledge . Buck-Morss Susan . 2009 . Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History...
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boundary 2 (2006) 33 (2): 239–242.
Published: 01 May 2006
...-
ing Identities in Asian American Literature.
Benjamin Zephaniah is a well-known poet, novelist, and playwright. In 2001, Blood-
axe published Too Black, Too Strong. In 2003, he turned down an invitation to accept
the honor of the position of Officer of the Order of British Empire (OBE) award.
Zhao...
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boundary 2 (2016) 43 (2): 27–57.
Published: 01 May 2016
... and 1990s, you made a decisive
shift toward the study of United States literature, joining other scholars who
would come to be called “New Americanists,” with your contribution to the
second volume of The Cambridge History of American Literature (1994–
2005)—later published separately...
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