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Author:

Barrenechea, Antonio, author.

Title:

America unbound : encyclopedic literature and hemispheric studies / Antonio Barrenechea.

Publisher:

University of New Mexico Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xiv, 231 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Subject:

America--In literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.
Mexican fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
French-Canadian fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
American fiction.
French-Canadian fiction.
Literature.
Mexican fiction.
America.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- The great(er) American paradigm: Moby-Dick and the Summa Americana -- From terra incognita to terra nostra: Carlos Fuentes's Reinvention of America -- Jacques Poulin's archival pathways: Volkswagen blues as discovery chronicle -- Leslie Marmon Silko's Council book: hemispheric forces in Almanac of the dead -- Greater America in the classroom: comparative literature, theory and praxis.

ISBN:

082635758X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780826357588 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)948548921

LCCN:

2016006707

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)