Abstract: When we go in search of American literature we must look to the edges of the nation as well as to its centers. Not firmly center stage of the nation representing its core values, American literature as found on the nation's edges is an outlier - the mind of its practitioners elsewhere, more often than not disaffiliated, disgruntled, marginalized, or peripheral to varying degrees, ready to blend into other national traditions and merge with other cultural identities. Regardless of where American writers were situated, once when it is looked to the nation's edges to answer the question “where is American literature?” one can see that authors turned to the real and imagined spaces that were peripheral to the nation in order to produce its literature. But American literature is not only inspired by the edge - it is, more often than not written on, at, and from the edge.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-04-26
Language: en
Type: other
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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