{"product_id":"through-other-continents-american-literature-across-deep-time-9780691114507","title":"Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat we call American literature is quite often a shorthand, a simplified name for an extended tangle of relations. This is the argument of \u003ci\u003eThrough Other Continents\u003c\/i\u003e, Wai Chee Dimock's sustained effort to read American literature as a subset of world literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Inspired by an unorthodox archive--ranging from epic traditions in Akkadian and Sanskrit to folk art, paintings by Veronese and Tiepolo, and the music of the Grateful Dead--Dimock constructs a long history of the world, a history she calls deep time. The civilizations of Mesopotamia, India, Egypt, China, and West Africa, as well as Europe, leave their mark on American literature, which looks dramatically different when it is removed from a strictly national or English-language context. Key authors such as Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Ezra Pound, Robert Lowell, Gary Snyder, Leslie Silko, Gloria Naylor, and Gerald Vizenor are transformed in this light. Emerson emerges as a translator of Islamic culture; Henry James's novels become long-distance kin to \u003ci\u003eGilgamesh\u003c\/i\u003e; and Black English loses its ungrammaticalness when reclassified as a creole tongue, meshing the input from Africa, Europe, and the Americas. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Throughout, Dimock contends that American literature is answerable not to the nation-state, but to the human species as a whole, and that it looks dramatically different when removed from a strictly national or English-language context.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wai Chee Dimock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/09\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.18h x 6.18w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691114507\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWai Chee Dimock\u003c\/b\u003e is William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eEmpire for Liberty: Melville and the Poetics of Individualism\u003c\/i\u003e (Princeton) and \u003ci\u003eResidues of Justice: Literature, Law, Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40087132864627,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":35.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_44bb24f5-79cd-4bd9-81e8-54a0f176602c.jpg?v=1652538554","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/through-other-continents-american-literature-across-deep-time-9780691114507","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}