Title Anxieties of experience : the literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño / Jeffrey Lawrence

Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Series Oxford studies in American literary history Oxford studies in American literary history. Contents Cultural divergence: the US literature of experience and the Latin American literature of the reader -- An inter-American episode: Jorge Luis Borges, Waldo Frank, and the battle for Whitman's America -- Uncommon grounds: the representation of history in Absalom, Absalom!, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Song of Solomon -- Full immersion: modernist aesthetics and the US literature of experience -- Voracious readers: the Latin American lettered city and the US literature of experience -- Epilogue: after Bolaño: toward a contemporary literature Summary "Anxieties of Experience' offers a new interpretation of US and Latin American literature. Rereading a range of canonical works from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass to Roberto Bolano's 2666, it traces the development and interaction of two distinct literary strains in the Americas: the 'US literature of experience' and the 'Latin American literature of the reader." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Audience Specialized Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 13, 2017) Subject National characteristics, American, in literature. National characteristics, Latin American, in literature. Literature and history -- United States Literature and history -- Latin America Literature Literature and history National characteristics, American, in literature National characteristics, Latin American, in literature SUBJECT America -- Literatures -- History and criticism Subject America Latin America United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780190690236 0190690232

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