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Continental Divides

Revisioning American Literature

By: Anne E. Goldman

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Hardcover | 20 October 2000 | Edition Number 1

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The book calls for a new iconography of region that unseats New England's status as cultural center of the United States and originary metaphor for national identity. No single territorial or political axis can adequately describe the complex regional relationships that comprise the nation, Goldman argues. The essays in this volume juxtapose African-American, Mexican-American, and Anglo American fictions produced in the wake of both the Civil War and the U.S.-Mexican War, contiguous national conflicts that remain segregated in critical practice. At once comparative and intertextual, the readings in this study redefine western literature in its relation to other U.S. regional literary formations. Goldman's arguments question critical sectionalism as extensively as they do regional divisions, by blurring generic distinctions, by reading across literary periods, and by juxtaposing writers who explore the same set of social issues during the same historical moment, but who are conventionally located in separate literary traditions: sentimental literature, the African American novel, literary modernism, early Mexican fiction.

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Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Acknowledgments	p. vi
Preface	p. viii
Introduction: Location, Location, Location Complicating Transnational Readings of American Literary History	p. 1
Beasts in the Jungle: Regional "aliens" and Boston Natives	p. 21
"I think our romance is spoiled": Mixed Marriage and Land Loss in Nineteenth-Century Historical Romances of California	p. 39
"Who ever heard of a blue-eyed Mexican?": Satire and Sentimentality in Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's Who Would Have Thought It?	p. 65
"Who would be a Western senator?": Californians in "the drawing Room of the Republic"	p. 85
All in the Family? Willa Cather's Imperial Housekeeping in the Southwest	p. 111
Epilogue	p. 141
Notes	p. 149
Works Cited	p. 195
Index	p. 203
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