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Lifshey, Adam Michael.

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Specters of America: Hauntings of a common continental literature.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Specters of America: Hauntings of a common continental literature./
作者:	Lifshey, Adam Michael.
面頁冊數:	345 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-09, Section: A, page: 3283.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-09A.
標題:	Literature, Comparative. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3105295

Specters of America: Hauntings of a common continental literature.
Lifshey, Adam Michael.

Specters of America: Hauntings of a common continental literature. - 345 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-09, Section: A, page: 3283.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2003.

This dissertation attempts to envision the Americas as sharing a common continental literature. But given diverse regional and national histories, how can such a hemispheric literary tradition be posited? I suggest that a common American literature exists by virtue of an ongoing creation of absence. That is, the European conquest of the continent is readable not only what it conjures forth (colonies, nations, new empires) but also for what it repeatedly attempts to conjure away (indigenous societies and ecologies). These attempts at erasure fail, however, for the absented narratives persistently reappear in the texts of the conquistadors and their heirs. I read the return of these elisions as ghosts, as revenants who haunt American texts and in so doing create a phantasmal, subjunctive hemisphere out of which a common continental literature arises.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Literature, Comparative.

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520 $a Chapter One surveys earlier conceptualizations of a common hemisphere, such as William Carlos Williams' In the American Grain, and of ways of thinking specters, such as Jacques Derrida's Spectres de Marx. Chapter Two analyzes Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe as a microcosm of a common America united by a foundational ghost, in this case the footprint in the sand that later incorporates as Friday; Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios is studied as a related text. Chapter Three examines poems by Walt Whitman and Pablo Neruda in which indigenous peoples are posited as continental ghosts; the chapter then studies the extent to which this spectralization can be seen as a preemptive, anticolonial strategy by indigenes in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Aime Cesaire's Une tempete , the Popol Vuh, and Rigoberta Menchu's Me llamo Rigoberta Menchu. Chapter Four discusses spectral presences in Cristobal Colon's El primer viaje a las Indias, Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's El amor en los tiempos del colera. Chapter Five explores the haunting subtexts of America in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Domingo Sarmiento's Facundo and Herman Melville's Benito Cereno. Chapter Six studies texts surrounding the Spanish-American War of 1898 as ghosted allegories of the continent, particularly Frederick Jackson Turner's "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," Jose Marti's "Nuestra America," and Leoncio Evita's Cuando los Combes luchaban.
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