{"product_id":"american-literature-in-the-world-an-anthology-from-anne-bradstreet-to-octavia-butler-9780231157377","title":"American Literature in the World: An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler","description":"\u003ci\u003eAmerican Literature in the World\u003c\/i\u003e is an innovative anthology offering a new way to understand the global forces that have shaped the making of American literature. The wide-ranging selections are structured around five interconnected nodes: war; food; work, play, and travel; religions; and human and nonhuman interfaces. Through these five categories, Wai Chee Dimock and a team of emerging scholars reveal American literature to be a complex network, informed by crosscurrents both macro and micro, with local practices intensified by international concerns. Selections include poetry from Anne Bradstreet to Jorie Graham; the fiction of Herman Melville, Gertrude Stein, and William Faulkner; Benjamin Franklin's parables; Frederick Douglass's correspondence; Theodore Roosevelt's \u003ci\u003eRough Riders\u003c\/i\u003e; Langston Hughes's journalism; and excerpts from \u003ci\u003eThe Autobiography of Malcom X\u003c\/i\u003e as well as Octavia Butler's \u003ci\u003eDawn\u003c\/i\u003e. Popular genres such as the crime novels of Raymond Chandler, the comics of Art Spiegelman, the science fiction of Philip K. Dick, and recipes from Alice B. Toklas are all featured. More recent authors include Junot Diaz, Leslie Marmon Silko, Jonathan Safran Foer, Edwidge Danticat, Gary Shteyngart, and Jhumpa Lahiri. These selections speak to readers at all levels and invite them to try out fresh groupings and remap American literature. A continually updated interactive component at www.amlitintheworld.yale.edu complements the anthology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWai Chee Dimock is William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. Her most recent books are Shades of the \u003ci\u003ePlanet: American Literature as World Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (2007) and \u003ci\u003eThrough Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time\u003c\/i\u003e (2006). Editor of \u003ci\u003ePMLA\u003c\/i\u003e, and a film critic for the\u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, her essays have also appeared in \u003ci\u003eCritical Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJordan Brower is a graduate student at Yale University. Edgar Garcia is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago. Kyle Hutzler works for McKinsey \u0026amp; Company. Nicholas Rinehart is a graduate student at Harvard University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844164784402,"sku":"9780231157377","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_dc5265b7-b72e-421d-b35d-6cca3738d28f.jpg?v=1737312984","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/american-literature-in-the-world-an-anthology-from-anne-bradstreet-to-octavia-butler-9780231157377","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}