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America is a nation making itself up as it goes alonga story of discoveryand invention unfolding in speeches and images letters and poetryunprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad multiformendlessly changing expressions of the American experience the authors andeditors of this volume find a new American history. In more than twohundred original essays A New Literary History of America brings togetherthe nations many voices. From the first conception of a New World in thesixteenth century to the latest reenvisioning of that world in cartoonstelevision science fiction and hip hop the book gives us a newkaleidoscopic view of what Made in America means. Literature music filmart history science philosophy political rhetoriccultural creations ofevery kind appear in relation to each other and to the time and place thatgive them shape. The meeting of minds is extraordinary as T. J. Clarkwrites on Jackson Pollock Paul Muldoon on Carl Sandburg Camille Paglia onTennessee Williams Sara Vowell on Grant Woods American Gothic WalterMosley on hardboiled detective fiction Jonathan Lethem on Thomas EdisonGerald Early on Tarzan Bharati Mukherjee on The Scarlet Letter Gish Jenon Catcher in the Rye and Ishmael Reed on Huckleberry Finn. From AnneBradstreet and John Winthrop to Philip Roth and Toni Morrison from AlexanderGraham Bell and Stephen Foster to Alcoholics Anonymous Life Chuck BerryAlfred Hitchcock and Ronald Reagan this is America singing celebratingitself and becoming something altogether different plural singular new. «
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