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See, Fred G. "American Literature in American Literature." Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 46, no. 2 (1990): 111–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/arq.1990.0007.

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Hemenway, Stephen I. "Review: Three American Literatures: Essays in Chicano, Native American, and Asian-American Literature for Teachers of American Literature." Christianity & Literature 34, no. 3 (1985): 71–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/014833318503400316.

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Rostagno, Irene. "Waldo Frank's Crusade for Latin American Literature." Americas 46, no. 1 (1989): 41–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1007393.

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Waldo Frank, who is now forgotten in Latin America, was once the most frequently read and admired North American author there. Though his work is largely neglected in the U.S., he was at one time the leading North American expert on Latin American writing. His name looms large in tracing the careers of Latin American writers in this country before 1940. Long before Franklin D. Roosevelt launched the Good Neighbor policy, Frank brought back to his countrymen news of Latin American culture.Frank went to South America when he was almost forty. The youthful dreams of Frank and his fellow pre-World War I writers and artists to make their country a fit place for cultural renaissance that would change society had waned with the onset of the twenties.1 But they had not completely vanished. Disgruntled by the climate of "normalcy" prevailing in America after World War I, he turned to Latin America. He started out in the Southwest. The remnants of Mexican culture he found in Arizona and New Mexico enticed him to venture further into the Hispanic world. In 1921 he traveled extensively in Spain and in 1929 spent six months exploring Latin America.

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Pratt, Lloyd. "Early American Literature and Its Exclusions." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 128, no. 4 (2013): 983–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2013.128.4.983.

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James Allen, the author of an “epic poem” entitled “Bunker Hill,” of which but a few fragments have been published, lived in the same period. The world lost nothing by “his neglect of fame.”—Rufus Griswold, The Poets and Poetry of AmericaAcross several of his influential anthologies of american literature, rufus griswold—nineteenth-century anthologist, poet, and erstwhile editor of Edgar Allan Poe—offers conflicting measures of what we now call early American literature. In The Prose Writers of America, for example, which first appeared in 1847 and later went into multiple editions, Griswold offers a familiar and currently derided set of parameters for this corpus of writing. In his prefatory remarks, dated May 1847, he explains that he has chosen not to include “the merely successful writers” who precede him. Although success might appear a high enough bar to warrant inclusion, he emphasizes that he has focused on writers who “have evinced unusual powers in controlling the national mind, or in forming the national character …” (5). This emphasis on what has been nationally consequential echoes other moments in Prose Writers, as well as paratextual material in his earlier The Poets and Poetry of America (1842) and his Female Poets of America (1848). In his several miniature screeds condemning the lack of international copyright, as well as the consequent flooding of the American market with cheap reprints, Griswold explains the “difficulties and dangers” this lack poses to “American literature”: “Injurious as it is to the foreign author, it is more so to the American [people,] whom it deprives of that nationality of feeling which is among the first and most powerful incentives to every feat of greatness” (Prose Writers 6). In The Poets and Poetry of America, he similarly complains that America's “national tastes and feelings are fashioned by the subject of kings; and they will continue so to be, until [there is] an honest and political system of reciprocalcopyright …” (v). Even in The Female Poets of America, the subject of which one might think would change the nature of this conversation, Griswold returns to the national project, examining the significance of women writers for it. He cites the fact that several of the poets included in this volume have written from lives that were “no holydays of leisure” but defined rather by everything from “practical duties” to the experience of slavery. He also responds to those carping “foreign critics” who propose that “our citizens are too much devoted to business and politics to feel interest in pursuits which adorn but do not profit”; these home-laboring women writers, he argues, may end up being the source of that which is most genuinely American and most correctly poetic: “Those who cherish a belief that the progress of society in this country is destined to develop a school of art, original and special, will perhaps find more decided indications of the infusion of our domestic spirit and temper in literature, in the poetry of our female authors, than in that of our men” (8). As it turns out, even women poets are held to the standard of national self-expression and national self-realization; the surprise lies only in the fact that they live up to this standard.

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Wang, Xiaotao. "Transnationalism in Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men and Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club." Journal of Education and Culture Studies 4, no. 2 (2020): p122. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/jecs.v4n2p122.

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Chinese American literature is commonly interpreted as the narrative of the living experiences of Chinese Americans. Under the past nation-state research paradigm, Chinese American literature critics both in China and America are preoccupied with the “assimilation” of immigrants and their descendants in Chinese American literature texts, they argue that Chinese culture is the barrier for the immigrants to be fully assimilated into the mainstream society. But putting Chinese American literature under the context of globalization, these arguments seem inaccurate and out of date. This article examines the transnational practices and emotional attachments in Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men and Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club to show that the identity in these two works are neither American nor Chinese, but transnational. Thus, Chinese American literature is not the writing of Chinese Americans’ Americanness, but a celebration of their transnationalism.

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Lease, Benjamin. "How ‘American’ is American Literature?" English Today 1, no. 2 (1985): 39–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078400000183.

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What do we understand nowadays by the phrase ‘American literature’? What factors have shaped it and made it distinctive and autonomous, and what relation does it now bear to the traditional conception of ‘English literature’?

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Franco, Dean J. "Teaching Jewish American Literature as Global Ethnic American Literature." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. 37, no. 2 (2012): 183–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mel.2012.0036.

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Sherly. H, Ms Monica, and Dr Aseda Fatima.R. "Patriarchal Oppression in Pearl S Buck’s Novel The Good Earth." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 2 (2020): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i2.10406.

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The story of American literature begins in the early 1600’s, long before there were any “Americans”. American literature blossomed with the skillful and brilliant writer during 1900s. Pearl S Buck was born to the family of Presbyterian missionary in 1892 in West Virginia. Being a successful writer in nineteenth century, she published various novels and she was the first female laureate in America and fourth woman writer to receive Nobel Prize in Literature. Oppression is an element that is common in patriarchal society where the women are always subjugated by the men in the family. This paper is to depict the men’s oppression in the novel through the character Wang Lang and how the female character O-Lan is surviving from all the struggles that she faces from her own family members. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. Literature is the reflection of mind. It is the great creative and universal means of communicating to the humankind. This creativity shows the difference between the writers and the people who simply write their views, ideas and thoughts. American literature began with the discovery of America. American literature begins with the orally transmitted myths, legends, tales and lyrics of Indian cultures. Native American oral literature is quite diverse. The story of American literature begins in the early 1600’s, long before there were any “Americans”. The earliest writers were Englishmen describing the English exploration and colonization of the New World.

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Thomas, Trudelle, and Paul Lauter. "Reconstructing American Literature." MELUS 12, no. 3 (1985): 109. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/467124.

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Pinsker, Sanford, and Peter Shaw. "Recovering American Literature." American Literature 66, no. 4 (1994): 833. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2927706.

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Brannon, Lil, and Brenda M. Greene. "Rethinking American Literature." College Composition and Communication 50, no. 2 (1998): 293. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/358522.

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Post-Lauria, Sheila, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Eric J. Sundquist, and Ronald Takaki. "Revisioning American Literature." College English 56, no. 8 (1994): 938. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/378774.

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Arias, Arturo. "Central American Literature." World Literature Today 75, no. 3/4 (2001): 104. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40156758.

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Donougho, Martin. "Theorizing American Literature." Owl of Minerva 23, no. 2 (1992): 196–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/owl199223210.

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Vizenor, Gerald, and Andrew Wiget. "Native American Literature." American Indian Quarterly 9, no. 1 (1985): 121. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1184680.

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Saposnik, Irving, and Sam B. Girgus. "Jewish American Literature." Contemporary Literature 26, no. 4 (1985): 492. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1208120.

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McKay, Nellie Y., Charles T. Davis, Henry Louis Gates, and Michael G. Cooke. "Afro-American Literature." Contemporary Literature 27, no. 2 (1986): 270. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1208662.

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Castronovo, Russ. "American Literature Internationale." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 50, no. 1-3 (2004): 59–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/esq.2004.0008.

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Wagner-Martin, Linda. "Teaching American Literature." Pedagogy 2, no. 2 (2002): 271–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/15314200-2-2-271.

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De Marco, Alessandra. "Italian American literature." Literature Compass 13, no. 11 (2016): 693–700. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12354.

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Bogue, Ronald. "On the Superiority of Anglo-American Literature." Deleuze Studies 7, no. 3 (2013): 302–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/dls.2013.0113.

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In Dialogues, Deleuze contrasts French and Anglo-American literatures, arguing that the French are tied to hierarchies, origins, manifestos and personal disputes, whereas the English and Americans discover a line of flight that escapes hierarchies, and abandons questions of origins, schools and personal alliances, instead discovering a collective process of ongoing invention, without beginning or determinate end. Deleuze especially appreciates American writers, and above all Herman Melville. What ultimately distinguishes American from English literature is its pragmatic, democratic commitment to sympathy and camaraderie on the open road. For Deleuze, the American literary line of flight is toward the West, but this orientation reflects his almost exclusive focus on writers of European origins. If one turns to Chinese-American literature, the questions of a literary geography become more complex. Through an examination of works by Maxine Hong Kingston and Tao Lin, some of these complexities are detailed.

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McGann, Jerome. "Colonial Exceptionalism on Native Grounds: American Literature before American Literature." Critical Inquiry 45, no. 3 (2019): 640–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/702593.

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Schoene, Berthold. "Contemporary American Literature as World Literature: Cruel Cosmopolitanism, Cosmopoetics, and the Search for a Worldlier American Novel." Anglia 135, no. 1 (2017): 86–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ang-2017-0006.

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AbstractWith reference to Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010), Amy Waldman’s The Submission (2011) and Teju Cole’s Open City (2011), the first two parts of the article attempt a reappraisal of contemporary American literature’s world-literary potential by problematizing cosmopolitanism and neoliberal globalization in close relation to 9/11, the ideal of American multiculture and non-American assertions of alterity. Introducing Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism (2011) and Mitchum Huehls’ After Critique (2016), the third part then shifts its focus onto the crisis of the neoliberal condition as lived in America today. Rather than insisting merely on thematic and demographic reprioritization, Berlant and Huehls are shown to strike at the very core of the literary and the human, exposing the ‘cruelty’ of both the novel and cosmopolitanism as residual expressions of a now anachronistic and ultimately harmful optimism regarding national cohesion and global understanding. The article concludes its search for a worldlier, more cosmopoetic American novel with an analysis of George Saunders’ short story collection Tenth of December (2013).

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Dworkin, Ira. "Radwa Ashour, African American Criticism, and the Production of Modern Arabic Literature." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 5, no. 1 (2018): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pli.2017.44.

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In 1973, at the suggestion of her mentor Shirley Graham Du Bois, the Egyptian scholar, activist, teacher, and novelist Radwa Ashour enrolled at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, to study African American literature and culture. Ashour’s 1975 dissertation “The Search for a Black Poetics: A Study of Afro-American Critical Writings,” along with her 1983 autobiography,Al-Rihla: Ayyam taliba misriyya fi amrika[The Journey: An Egyptian Woman Student’s Memoirs in America], specifically engage with debates that emerged at the First International Congress of Negro Writers and Artists in September 1956 between African Americans and others from the African diaspora (most notably Aimé Césaire) regarding the applicability of the “colonial thesis” to the United States. This article argues that Ashour’s early engagement with African American cultural politics are formative of her fiction, particularly her 1991 novel,Siraaj: An Arab Tale,which examines overlapping questions of slavery, empire, and colonialism in the Arab world.

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Harrington, J. "Why American Poetry Is Not American Literature." American Literary History 8, no. 3 (1996): 496–515. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/8.3.496.

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Abarry, Abu. "The African-American Legacy in American Literature." Journal of Black Studies 20, no. 4 (1990): 379–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002193479002000401.

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Candelaria-Greene, Jamie. "Misperspectives on Literacy." Written Communication 11, no. 2 (1994): 251–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0741088394011002004.

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This article argues that historians of literacy, including Carl Kaestle, Harvey Graff, Suzanne de Castell, and Allan Luke, have not taken into account America's Hispanic literacy legacy. Drawing examples from historical accounts, diaries, and Spanish civil law, the author illustrates the depth and breadth of Hispanic contributions to American literacy. The article sharply contrasts the (relatively recent) image of “literacy deficient” Hispanic Americans with the rich legacy of their forebearers, who brought a new world of literacy to early America.

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McGee, Glen. "American Literature and Science." Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 24, no. 74 (1996): 19–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/saap199624749.

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Prospo, R. C. De. "Marginalizing Early American Literature." New Literary History 23, no. 2 (1992): 233. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/469233.

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Di Leo. "American Literature in Bloom." symplokē 28, no. 1-2 (2020): 423. http://dx.doi.org/10.5250/symploke.28.1-2.0423.

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Gura, Philip F., and Sacvan Bercovitch. "Essaying Early American Literature." New England Quarterly 68, no. 1 (1995): 118. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/365968.

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Abair, Jacqueline M., and Alice Cross. "Patterns in American Literature." English Journal 88, no. 6 (1999): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/822192.

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Kennedy, J. Gerald, Jean Meral, and Laurette Long. "Paris in American Literature." American Literature 62, no. 4 (1990): 702. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2927081.

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Hellmann, John, and Philip H. Melling. "Vietnam in American Literature." American Literature 64, no. 1 (1992): 196. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2927528.

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Suleiman, Yasir. "On Arab American Literature." Holy Land Studies 6, no. 2 (2007): 214–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/hls.2007.6.2.214.

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Ilan Stavans. "Is American Literature Parochial?" World Literature Today 87, no. 4 (2013): 26. http://dx.doi.org/10.7588/worllitetoda.87.4.0026.

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Wickes, George, Jean Meral, and Laurette Long. "Paris in American Literature." Comparative Literature 45, no. 1 (1993): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1771314.

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Rhoden, L. B. "Greening Central American Literature." Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 12, no. 1 (2005): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isle/12.1.1.

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Carafiol, Peter. "Commentary: After American Literature." American Literary History 4, no. 3 (1992): 539–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/4.3.539.

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Shields, David S. "Rehistoricizing Early American Literature." American Literary History 5, no. 3 (1993): 542–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/5.3.542.

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Pfister, J. "A Usable American Literature." American Literary History 20, no. 3 (2008): 579–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajn033.

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Shumway, D. R. "American Literature Coming Apart." American Literary History 20, no. 3 (2008): 656–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajn036.

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Peterfreund, Stuart. "American Literature and Science." Studies in American Fiction 23, no. 1 (1995): 122–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/saf.1995.0003.

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Suleiman, Yasir. "On Arab American Literature." Holy Land Studies: A Multidisciplinary Journal 6, no. 2 (2007): 212–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hls.2008.0002.

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Lim, Jeehyun. "Nation, Diaspora, and Asian American Literature." American Literary History, December 21, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajaa040.

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Abstract Read together, Patricia Chu’s Where I have Never Been (2019), Jinah Kim’s Postcolonial Grief (2019), Sze Wei Ang’s The State of Race (2019), and Janna Odabas’s The Ghosts Within (2018) allow for a review of the state and meaning of diaspora and diasporic frames of analysis in Asian American literary and cultural criticism. Approaching these books through the 1990s debate on minority nationalism in Asian American studies shows one prominent direction that critical engagements with transnationalism have taken. While postcolonialism’s place in the 1990s debate on transnationalism and Asian America was tenuous at best, these books suggest that it has become a crucial part of envisioning the critical work diasporic Asian American culture can do. In these books, diasporic frames of analysis lead to recognizing Asian American culture as a site where the unresolved and unaccounted for violence of US nationalism and globalization surfaces and challenges to dominant ideas of race and nation appear. Both as method of inquiry and as historical understanding of twentieth-century US–Asian relations, postcolonialism in these books shows the critical potential of diaspora for Asian America.

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"American protest literature." Choice Reviews Online 44, no. 10 (2007): 44–5417. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/choice.44-5417.

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"Black American literature." Choice Reviews Online 26, no. 11 (1989): 26–6603. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/choice.26-6603.

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"Modern American literature." Choice Reviews Online 36, no. 11 (1999): 36–6031. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/choice.36-6031.

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"Recovering American literature." Choice Reviews Online 32, no. 02 (1994): 32–0771. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/choice.32-0771.

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"American Literature Section." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 127, no. 5 (2012): 1272. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/s0030812900195884.

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