Antipodean America

Antipodean America

Australasia and the Constitution of U. S. Literature

Giles, Paul

Oxford University Press Inc

12/2016

592

Mole

Inglês

9780190623999

15 a 20 dias

A sweeping study that spans two continents and over three hundred years of literary history, Antipodean America identifies the surprising affinities between Australian and American literature.
Preface 1. American Literature and the Antipodean Imaginary: Imperialism,Transnationalism, Surrealism 2. Parallax Zones: The Founding Fathers and Austral Enlightenment Satiric Double-Binds: Benjamin Franklin's Biloquism Planetary Perspectives: Crevecoeur's New Holland Transposing the West: Jefferson and Ledyard 3. Early National Orbits: Geography, Astronomy, and the Cycles of the Earth Freneau, Alsop, and Neoclassical Style Joel Barlow: The Columbiad Charles Brockden Brown: Systems of General Geography 4. Aurora Australis: Antebellum Seascapes and the Southern Cross The Hidden Antipodes: Irving's "Globular" Narratives The Southern Sea: Dana and Poe "Ex Ex" Narratives: Wilkes and Cooper 5. Transcendental Burlesque: Reorienting Manifest Destiny "The Other Side of the Sphere": Melville and Australasia Rotating the Axis: The Gold Rush Circuit "The Earth reversed her Hemispheres": Dickinson's Antipodality 6. Empire Upside Down: Victorian Globalization and Colonial Equations Civil War, Imperial Circumference: Lincoln and Trollope Family Romance, Domestic Disturbance: Kingsley and Southworth Spatio-Temporal Triangulation: Henry Adams The Laughing Jackass: Twain's Latitudinal Parallels 7. Ancestral Modernisms: Indigeneity and the Articulation of Distance Irish Aesthetic Nativism: John Boyle O'Reilly Racialism and Socialism: Jack London The Primitivist Paradox: Federation's "weird country" 8. Transpacific Transgression: Gender Remapping and World Revolutions The Boundaries of Utopia: Howells, Gilman, Miles Franklin Lola Ridge and the Appulsive Avant-Garde "The Twinness of Things": Stead's Surrealist Dialectic 9. Pacific Theaters: The Poetry of Violence, from World War II to Vietnam Karl Shapiro's "backward crab" Louis Simpson: Racial Metissage and Southern Pastoral The New York Poets: Inversion and Misrepresentation "America rhymes with Australia": Yusef Komunyakaa 10. Antipodean American Postmodernism: Turning the Subject Inside Out Irish Intertexts: Chandler and Keneally Contrarian Tendencies: Hazzard, Rushdie, Carey "Transposabilities": The Posthumanist Spectrum J. M. Coetzee and the Politics of Disorientation Conclusion: American Literature's Terra Incognita Notes Works Cited
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