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Book SynopsisJohn Muthyala’s Reworlding America moves beyond the U.S.-centered approach of traditional American literary criticism. In this groundbreaking book, Muthyala argues for a transgeographical perspective from which to study the literary and cultural histories of the Americas.By
Trade Review“Muthyala reimagines the literatures of Americas in the transborder and hemispheric dimension.”
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Reworlding America) is admirable in its expansive historico-cultural scope and in its ambitious attempt to bring together a vast array of theoretical currents in recent transnational and postcolonial scholarship.” * H-Amstdy *
Table of Contents* Preface * Chapter 1: Reworlding America * Chapter 2: Frontier Narratives of the Americas * Chapter 3: Pan-Caribbean Hemispheric Poetics * Chapter 4: Border Cultures in the Borderlands * Acknowledgments * Notes * Bibliography * Index
