The New North American Studies - 9780415335980

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The New North American StudiesCulture, Writing and the Politics of Re/Cognition\nAuthor(s): Winfried Siemerling\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415335980, 978-0415335980\nSynopsis\nWinner of the English Book Award, Grand Prix du Livre 2006 de la Ville de Sherbrooke.\n\nIn this original and groundbreaking study, Winfried Siemerling examines the complexities of recognition and identity, rejecting previous nationalized thinking to approach North American cultural transformations from transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives. \nUsing material from the United States and Canada as case studies and drawing on a wide range of texts and theorists, he examines postcoloniality and cultural emergence from the sixties to the present against earlier backgrounds. Siemerling's argument for a retheorization of the field takes on the full history of multiculturalism debates, including radical readings of [url] Du Bois an.