Reading American Novels and Multicultural Aesthetics

1. Introduction Romancing the Canon and the Broad Argument for a Post-Metaphysics
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2. Dialectical and Transcultural Contexts: Otherness, Subjectivity, and Coleridge’s Vision
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3. Historical and Ideological Contexts: The Burden of F.O. Matthiessen’s American Renaissance
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4. Multicultural and Postcolonial Contexts: Philosophy’s Self and Other
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5. Poststructural Contexts: Paul De Man’s Uncertainty Anxiety and the Allegory of Division
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6. A Southwestern Laguna Native American Perspective: Western Eyes and Indian Visions in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony

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7. A Korean American Perspective: Tolerating Truth and Knowledge in Chang-Rae Lee’s Native Speaker

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8. A South Los Angeles Mexican American Perspective: Empty Hope and Full Sensuality in Luis Rodriguez’s Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.

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9. An Antigua Caribbean American Perspective: The Quest for Empowerment in Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John

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10. A White European American Perspective: Imagining Family and Community in Don Delillo’s White Noise

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11. Conclusion Feeling Romantic, Thinking Postmodern: Last Words on form in a Multicultural Age
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Keywords: Literature, North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Aesthetics