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  • Through Other Continents
    Wai Chee Dimock
    What we call American literature is quite often a shorthand, a simplified name for an extended tangle of relations.' This is the argument of Through Other Continents, Wai Chee Dimock’s sustained effort to read American literature as a subset of world literature. Inspired by an unorthodox archive--ranging from epic traditions in Akkadian and Sanskrit to folk art, paintings by V...
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  • Empire for Liberty
    Wai Chee Dimock
    Wai Chee Dimock approaches Herman Melville not as a timeless genius, but as a historical figure caught in the politics of an imperial nation and an 'imperial self.' She challenges our customary view by demonstrating a link between the individualism that enabled Melville to write as a sovereign author and the nationalism that allowed America to grow into what Jefferson hoped wou...
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