Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature (eBook)

Rachel Adams, Columbia University, USA.  Mita Banerjee, University of Mainz, Germany.  Georgiana Banita, University of Bamberg, Germany.  Julia Breitbach, University of Konstanz, Germany.  Jutta Ernst, University of Mainz, German.y Florian Freitag, University of Mainz, Germany.  Monika Giacoppe, Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA.  Eva Gruber, University of Konstanz, Germany.  Christina Kannenberg, University of Konstanz, Germany.  Jean Morency, University of Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.  Caroline Rosenthal, University of Jena, Germany.  Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Arizona State University, USA.  Katja Sarkowsky, University of Münster, German.y Sabine Sielke, University of Bonn, Germany.  Marie Vautier, University of Victoria, Canada.  Lorraine York, McMaster University, Canada.

1. Introduction: Comparative North American Studies and Its Contexts; Reingard M. Nischik 2. Imagining North America; Rachel Adams 3. Multiculturalism in the United States and Canada; Sabine Sielke 4. Comparing Native Literatures in Canada and the United States; Katja Sarkowsky 5. Comparative Race Studies: Black and White in the United States and Canada; Eva Gruber 6. Naturalization and Citizenship in North America; Mita Banerjee 7. Comparative Canadian/Québécois Literature Studies; Marie Vautier 8. Québécois Literature and American Literature; Jean Morency 9. North America's Francophone Borderlands; Monika Giacoppe 10. The Literatures of the Mexico-U.S. and Canada-U.S. Borders; Claudia Sadowski-Smith 11. Regionalism in American and Canadian Literature; Florian Freitag 12. The North in English Canada and Quebec; Christina Kannenberg 13. North American Urban Fiction; Caroline Rosenthal 14. Modernism in the United States and Canada; Jutta Ernst 15. Postmodernism in the United States and Canada; Julia Breitbach 16. Literary Celebrity in the United States and Canada; Lorraine York 17. North American Literature and Global Studies: Transnationalism at War; Georgiana Banita