Shades of the planet: American literature as world literature

Abstract

Introduction: Planet and America, Set and Subset by Wai Chee Dimock 1 PART ONE: The Field, the Nation, the World 17 Chapter 1: Global and Babel: Language and Planet in American Literature by Jonathan Arac 19 Chapter 2: The Deterritorialization of American Literature by Paul Giles 39 Chapter 3: Unthinking Manifest Destiny: Muslim Modernities on Three Continents bySusan Stanford Friedman 62 PART TWO: Eastern Europe as Test Case 101 Chapter 4: Mr. Styron's Planet by Eric J. Sundquist 103 Chapter 5: Planetary Circles: Philip Roth, Emerson, Kundera by Ross Posnock 141 PART THREE: Local and Global 169 Chapter 6: World Bank Drama by Joseph Roach 171 Chapter 7: Global Minoritarian Culture by Homi K. Bhabha 184 Chapter 8: Atlantic to Pacific: James, Todorov, Blackmur, and Intercontinental Form by David Palumbo-Liu 196 Chapter 9: Ecoglobalist Affects: The Emergence of U.S. Environmental Imagination on a Planetary Scale by Lawrence Buell 227 Chapter 10: At the Borders of American Crime Fiction by Rachel Adams 249 Chapter 11: African, Caribbean, American: Black English as Creole Tongue by Wai Chee Dimock 274 Index 301

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