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This expansive Companion offers a set of fresh perspectives on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States.
* Highlights the diverse voices that constitute American literature, embracing oral traditions, slave narratives, regional writing, literature of the environment, and more
* Demonstrates that American literature was multicultural before Europeans arrived on the continent, and even more so thereafter
* Offers three distinct paradigms for thinking about American literature, focusing on: genealogies of American literary study; writers and issues; and contemporary theories and practices
* Enables students and researchers to generate richer, more varied and more comprehensive readings of American literature
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A Companion to American Literature and Culture Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture This series offers comprehensive, newly written surveys of key periods and movements and certain major authors in English literary culture and history. Extensive volumes provide new perspectives and positions on contexts and on canonical and post-canonical texts, orientating the beginning student in new fields of study and providing the experienced undergraduate and new graduate with current and new directions, as pioneered and developed by leading scholars in the field. Published recently 51. A Companion to Charles Dickens 52. A Companion to James Joyce 53. A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture 54. A Companion to the History of the English Language 55. A Companion to Henry James 56. A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. Edited by David Paroissien Edited by Richard Brown Edited by Sara Castro-Klaren Edited by Haruko Momma and Michael Matto Edited by Greg Zacharias Edited by Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David Malcolm A Co