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Title Rethinking literary history : a dialogue on theory / edited by Linda Hutcheon and Mario J. Valdés
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002

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Description xiii, 215 pages ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Rethinking the National Model / Linda Hutcheon -- 2. Racial Memory and Literary History / Stephen Greenblatt -- 3. Rethinking the History of Literary History / Mario J. Valdes -- 4. Rethinking the Scale of Literary History / Marshall Brown -- 5. Rethinking the Colonial Model / Walter D. Mignolo -- Afterword. A Personal Response / Homi Bhabha
Summary "This collection of five essays by major scholars reconsiders various aspects of literary history, including key questions in contemporary literary theory such as the idea of nations and nationalism, racial memory, and colonialism and postcolonialism. Some twenty years ago, when the influence of poststructuralist theory became predominant in literary theory, traditional literary history was pushed to the margins by critiques of its teleological assumptions and uncritical acceptance of Eurocentric ideologies. In Rethinking Literary History, five major scholars, practicing literary historians and literary theorists, revisit literary history, deploying the strategies developed in literary and cultural studies over the past two decades."
"The authors provide synoptic and wide-ranging discussions of each issue, and the interchange between the various authors in which they reflect on, argue with, and "rethink" each other's formulations reinforces the dialogic structure of the volume. A substantial afterword by a leading scholar rounds out the notable arguments contained in this book, a must-have for literary theorists and historians."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Criticism -- History -- 20th century.
Literature, Modern -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Author Hutcheon, Linda, 1947-
Valdés, Mario J.
LC no. 2001055733
ISBN 0195152549 acid-free paper