American Literature as World Literature [Hardcover]

For better or worse, America lives in the age of worlded literature. Not the world literature of nations and nationalities considered from most powerful and wealthy to the least. And not the world literature found with a map. Rather, the worlded literature of individuals crossing borders, mixing stories, and speaking in dialect. Where translation struggles to be effective and background is itself another story. The worlded literature of the multinational corporate publishing industry where the global market is all. The essays in this collection, from some of the most distinguished figures in American studies and literature, explore what it means to consider American literature as world literature.

Acknowledgments
American Literature as World Literature: An Introduction
Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston-Victoria, USA)

Part 1: World, Worldings, Worldliness
1. American Literature and Its Shadow Worlds: Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Specters of Worldliness
Paul Giles (University of Sydney, UK)
2. Worldings of American Literature Off the Cultural Radar
Lawrence Buell (Harvard University, USA)
3. Who Needs American Literature? From Emerson to Marcus and Sollors
Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston-Victoria, USA)

Part 2: Literature, Geopolitics, Globalization
4. Worlds of Americana
Peter Hitchcock (City University of New York, USA)
5. Political Serials:Tanner '88toHouse of Cards
Emily Apter (New York University, USA)
6.Weltliterature? Mapping American Literature after Territorialism: Manifesto for a 21st-Century Critical Agenda
Christian Moraru (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA)
7. Amitav Ghosh'sIbisTrilogy in American World Literature
Jonathan Arac (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

Part 3: Experience, Poetics, New Worlds
8. Whitman's Polyvocal Poetic Revolution: l#Ž