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Informationen zum Autor Anna Brickhouse is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Klappentext Arguing for a fundamental reassessment of the literary history of the nineteenth-century United States within transamerican and multilingual contexts! Anna Brickhouse examines a broad array of texts in English! French! and Spanish. She discovers literary influences from Latin American and Caribbean American literatures which made the period a rich era of literary border-crossing and transcontinental cultural exchange. Zusammenfassung This wide-ranging comparative study reassesses the literary history of the nineteenth-century United States within its transamerican and multilingual contexts. Anna Brickhouse uncovers lines of literary influence and descent from Latin American and Caribbean literatures that shaped this most formative period of literary production in the United States. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Note on texts and translations; Prologue; 1. Introduction: transamerican renaissance; 2. Scattered traditions: the transamerican genealogies of Jicoténcal; 3. A francophone view of comparative American literature: Revue des Colonies and the translations of abolition; 4. Cuban stories; 5. Hawthorne's Mexican genealogies; 6. Transamerican theatre: Pierre Faubert and L'Oncle Tom; Epilogue; Notes; Index.
