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  3. Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
September 2009
Print publication year:
2004
Online ISBN:
9780511485701
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485701
Series:
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture (145)
Subjects:
Literature, Area Studies, Latin American Literature, Latin American Studies, Literary Theory
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Book description

This wide-ranging comparative study argues for a fundamental reassessment of the literary history of the nineteenth-century United States within the transamerican and multilingual contexts that shaped it. Drawing on an array of texts in English, French and Spanish by both canonical and neglected writers and activists, Anna Brickhouse investigates interactions between US, Latin American and Caribbean literatures. Her many examples and case studies include the Mexican genealogies of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the rewriting of Uncle Tom's Cabin by a Haitian dramatist, and a French Caribbean translation of the poetry of Phillis Wheatley. Brickhouse uncovers lines of literary influence and descent linking Philadelphia and Havana, Port-au-Prince and Boston, Paris and New Orleans. She argues for a new understanding of this most formative period of literary production in the United States as a 'transamerican renaissance', a rich era of literary border-crossing and transcontinental cultural exchange.

Awards

The Committee of the 2005 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize awarded by the American Studies Association has given an Honorable Mention to Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere.

Reviews

Review of the hardback:'… offers several enticing points of departure and helpfully suggests 'new ways we might organize our narratives of nineteenth-century literature'.'

Source: Journal of American Studies

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