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Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the United States (New World Studies)
Claudia Sadowski-Smith
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Paperback. Examines 25 18th-century Virginia mansions and offers an analytical overview of Virginia's elite residential architecture from a patronage perspective. This book illuminates the fortunes, motivations, and aspirations of the wealthy and powerful owners who built their "homes" with the objective of securing their status and impressing the public. Num Pages: 400 pages, 147 b&w illustrations, 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; AMKD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
Border Fictions offers the first comparative analysis of multiethnic and transnational cultural representations about the United States' borders with Mexico and Canada. Blending textual analysis with theories of globalization and empire, Claudia Sadowski-Smith forges a new model of inter-American studies.
Border Fictions places into dialogue a variety of hemispheric perspectives from Chicana/o, Asian American, American Indian, Latin American, and Canadian studies. Each chapter examines fiction that ranges widely, from celebrated authors such as Carlos Fuentes, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Alberto Ríos to writers whose contributions to border literature have not yet been fully appreciated, including Karen Tei Yamashita, Thomas ... Read more
Border Fictions offers the first comparative analysis of multiethnic and transnational cultural representations about the United States' borders with Mexico and Canada. Blending textual analysis with theories of globalization and empire, Claudia Sadowski-Smith forges a new model of inter-American studies.
Border Fictions places into dialogue a variety of hemispheric perspectives from Chicana/o, Asian American, American Indian, Latin American, and Canadian studies. Each chapter examines fiction that ranges widely, from celebrated authors such as Carlos Fuentes, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Alberto Ríos to writers whose contributions to border literature have not yet been fully appreciated, including Karen Tei Yamashita, Thomas ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813926780
SKU
V9780813926780
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About Claudia Sadowski-Smith
Claudia Sadowski-Smith is Assistant Professor of English at Arizona State University and the editor of Globalization on the Line: Culture, Capital, and Citizenship at U.S. Borders.
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