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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