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Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaņo
Contributor(s): Lawrence, Jeffrey (Author)

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 ISBN: 0190690208     ISBN-13: 9780190690205
Publisher: Oxford University Press
OUR PRICE: $82.65  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American - Regional
- Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century
- Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century
Dewey: 809.897
LCCN: 2017014043
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" L (1.15 lbs) 312 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaņo offers a new interpretation of US and Latin American literature from the nineteenth century to the present. Revisiting longstanding debates in the hemisphere about whether the source of authority for New World
literature derives from an author's first-hand contact with American places and peoples or from a creative (mis)reading of existing traditions, the book charts a widening gap in how modern US and Latin American writers defined their literary authority. In the process, it traces the development of
two distinct literary strains in the Americas: the US literature of experience and the Latin American literature of the reader. Reinterpreting a range of canonical works from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass to Roberto Bolaņo's 2666, Anxieties of Experience shows how this hemispheric literary
divide fueled a series of anxieties, misunderstandings, and misencounters between US and Latin American authors. In the wake of recent calls to rethink the common grounds approach to literature across the Americas, the book advocates a comparative approach that highlights the distinct logics of
production and legitimation in the US and Latin American literary fields. Anxieties of Experience closes by exploring the convergence of the literature of experience and the literature of the reader in the first decades of the twenty-first century, arguing that the post-Bolaņo moment has produced
the strongest signs of a truly reciprocal literature of the Americas in more than a hundred years.
 
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