What is American Literature?

What is American Literature?
Ilan Stavans
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1 Feb 2022 UK
9780198816218
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An introduction to American literature through the prism of our conflicted present. The distinguished cultural critic Ilan Stavans delves into the nation' s identity through its narratives, from the indigenous chronicles of conquest to the age of independence, the ascent of global power, and its crumbling imperial decline.
Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, the publisher of Restless Books, and the host of the NPR podcast "In Contrast". The recipient of numerous international awards, his work, adapted into film, theatre, TV, and radio, has been translated into twenty languages. He is the author of, among other titles, On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language (Viking), Spanglish (Harper),Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Early Years (Palgrave), Quixote: The Novel and the World (Norton), and The Seventh Heaven: Travels through Jewish Latin America (Pitts). He is the editor of The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories(OUP), The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry (FSG), The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (Norton), Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing (Library of America), and How Yiddish Changes America and How America Changed Yiddish (Restless).
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ISBN-13: 9780198816218
Published: 1 Feb 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Pages: 224

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