Nationalism and Literature: The Politics of Culture in Canada and the United States

This analysis of two hundred American and Canadian novels offers a new theory of national literatures, demonstrating that national canon formation occurs in tandem with nation-building. It accounts for cross-national differences and illuminates the historically constructed and symbolic nature of the relationship between literature and the nation-state. High-culture national literatures are selected as different from other novels; popular-culture bestsellers are mass market commodities for the largest, least differentiated audience.

Author: Sarah M. Corse
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 10/28/1996
Pages: 226
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.92h x 6.06w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780521579124

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