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Antipodean America - Australasia and the Constitution of U. S. Literature (Hardcover)
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Antipodean America - Australasia and the Constitution of U. S. Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in American Literary History, 5
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A sweeping study that spans two continents and over three hundred
years of literary history, Antipodean America argues that images of
Australasia as an imagined "end of the earth" establishes the
presence of an understudied historical and global consciousness,
oriented toward the Pacific, in American literature. Paul Giles
shows how places like Australia and New Zealand become the silent
other whose likenesses to the US induce condescension, fear,
paranoia, envy, rivalry, and narcissistic appropriation. The
American engagement with Australasia, Giles demonstrates, has been
constant since the eighteenth century and it is evinced in works by
the most canonical figures in US literary history. Reading a range
of works by figures like Benjamin Franklin, Herman Melville, Emily
Dickinson, Mark Twain, Raymond Chandler, and John Ashbery,
alongside writers like Miles Franklin, Peter Carey, and J.M.
Coetzee, Antipodean America provides a welcome transnational
perspective that will redefine our perception of what constitutes
American literature.
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