The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature [Paperback]

A first of its kind, The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature provides an overview of Comparative North American Literature, a cutting-edge discipline. Contributors make important interventions into multiculturalism in North America and into U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada border literatures.1. Introduction: Comparative North American Studies and Its Contexts; Reingard M. Nischik 2. Imagining North America; Rachel Adams 3. Multiculturalism in the United States and Canada; Sabine Sielke 4. Comparing Native Literatures in Canada and the United States; Katja Sarkowsky 5. Comparative Race Studies: Black and White in the United States and Canada; Eva Gruber 6. Naturalization and Citizenship in North America; Mita Banerjee 7. Comparative Canadian/Qu?b?cois Literature Studies; Marie Vautier 8. Qu?b?cois Literature and American Literature; Jean Morency 9. North America's Francophone Borderlands; Monika Giacoppe 10. The Literatures of the Mexico-U.S. and Canada-U.S. Borders; Claudia Sadowski-Smith 11. Regionalism in American and Canadian Literature; Florian Freitag 12. The North in English Canada and Quebec; Christina Kannenberg 13. North American Urban Fiction; Caroline Rosenthal 14. Modernism in the United States and Canada; Jutta Ernst 15. Postmodernism in the United States and Canada; Julia Breitbach 16. Literary Celebrity in the United States and Canada; Lorraine York 17. North American Literature and Global Studies: Transnationalism at War; Georgiana Banita

The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature will appeal to scholars and students interested in the manifold interrelations and transactions between the literatures of north America. Its articles are highly informative, well written and researched. They all summarize important debates and research traditions in their respective fields. The Handbook will also be helpful for readers with a specific interest in the politics that have shaped American studies as a discipline ilã