America is a nation making itself up as it goes along a story of
discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters
and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In
these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the
American experience, the authors and editors of this volume find a
new American history.
In more than two hundred original essays, "A New Literary
History of America" brings together the nation s many voices. From
the first conception of a New World in the sixteenth century to the
latest re-envisioning of that world in cartoons, television,
science fiction, and hip hop, the book gives us a new,
kaleidoscopic view of what Made in America means. Literature,
music, film, art, history, science, philosophy, political rhetoric
cultural creations of every kind appear in relation to each other,
and to the time and place that give them shape.
The meeting of minds is extraordinary as T. J. Clark writes on
Jackson Pollock, Paul Muldoon on Carl Sandburg, Camille Paglia on
Tennessee Williams, Sarah Vowell on Grant Wood s "American Gothic,"
Walter Mosley on hard-boiled detective fiction, Jonathan Lethem on
Thomas Edison, Gerald Early on "Tarzan," Bharati Mukherjee on "The
Scarlet Letter," Gish Jen on "Catcher in the Rye," and Ishmael Reed
on "Huckleberry Finn." From Anne Bradstreet and John Winthrop to
Philip Roth and Toni Morrison, from Alexander Graham Bell and
Stephen Foster to Alcoholics Anonymous, "Life," Chuck Berry, Alfred
Hitchcock, and Ronald Reagan, this is America singing, celebrating
itself, and becoming something altogether different, plural,
singular, new.
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