America Unbound: Encyclopedic Literature and Hemispheric Studies
Antonio Barrenechea, "America Unbound: Encyclopedic Literature and Hemispheric Studies"
English | ISBN: 082635758X | 2016 | 248 pages | PDF | 20 MB
English | ISBN: 082635758X | 2016 | 248 pages | PDF | 20 MB
This original contribution to hemispheric American literary studies comprises readings of three important novels from Mexico, Canada, and the United States: Carlos Fuentes's Terra Nostra, Quebecois writer Jacques Poulin's Volkswagen Blues, and Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead. The encyclopedic novel has particular generic characteristics that serve these writers as a vehicle for the reincorporation of hemispheric histories. Starting with an examination of
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