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Nationalism and Literature: The Politics of Culture in Canada and the United States

Nationalism and Literature: The Politics of Culture in Canada and the United States

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Series: Cambridge Cultural Social Studies

Literary CriticismGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0521579120
ISBN13: 9780521579124
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 28 1996
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.06 Depth: 8.92
Language: English
This analysis of two hundred American and Canadian novels offers a new theory of national literatures, demonstrating that national canon formation occurs in tandem with nation-building. It accounts for cross-national differences and illuminates the historically constructed and symbolic nature of the relationship between literature and the nation-state. High-culture national literatures are selected as different from other novels; popular-culture bestsellers are mass market commodities for the largest, least differentiated audience.

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