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Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Blood Meridian (1985), Cormac McCarthy's epic tale of an otherwise nameless "kid" who in his teens joins a gang of licensed scalp hunters whose marauding adventures take place across Texas, Chihuahua, Sonora, Arizona, and California during 1849 and 1850, is widely considered to be one of the finest novels of the Old West, as well as McCarthy's greatest work. The New York Times Book Review ranked it third in a 2006 survey of the "best work of American...
Series
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
The American Novel series provides students of American literature with introductory critical guides to great works of American literature. Each volume begins with a substantial introduction by a distinguished authority on the text, giving details of the work's composition, publication history, and contemporary reception, as well as a survey of the major critical trends and readings from first publication to the present. This overview is followed...
57) Disturbing calculations: the economics of identity in postcolonial Southern literature, 1912-2002
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Series
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Mohanty has assembled an innovative volume of essays situated at the intersection of at least three multi-disciplinary fields: postcolonial and subaltern theory; comparative literary analysis, especially with a South Asian and transnational focus; and the study of "alternative" and "indigenous" modernities. Contributors emphasize the strategies of resistance that are encoded in third world literary texts; comparative literary analysis, across cultures...