Reworlding America

"John Muthyala's Reworlding America moves beyond the U.S.-centered approach of traditional American literary criticism. In this book, Muthyala argues for a transgeographical perspective from which to study the literary and cultural histories of the Americas." "Muthyala questions the nationalistic, religious, and ethnocentric frameworks used to conceptualize American literary history and proposes alternative critical models to engage with the dissonant yet interlinked cultures of the Americas. Drawing from cultural studies, anthropology, literature, and history, Muthyala examines the literatures of the Americas in terms of their intimate relationship to questions of cultural survival, identity formation, and social power." "By emphasizing transnational migration, border crossing, and colonial modernity, Reworlding America exposes how national, ethnic, linguistic, religious, and cultural boundaries have been continually created and transgressed - with profound consequences for the peoples of the Americas."--BOOK JACKET.