Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño

by Jeffrey Lawrence

Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bola o offers a new interpretation of US and Latin American literature from the nineteenth century to the present. Revisiting longstanding debates in the hemisphere about whether the source of authority for New World literature derives from an author's first-hand contact with American places and peoples or from a creative (mis)reading of existing traditions, the book charts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190077786
• ISBN13: 9780190077785
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"