A Companion to American Literature and Culture

This expansive <i>Companion</i> offers a set of fresh perspectives on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States.<br /> <ul> <li>Highlights the diverse voices that constitute American literature, embracing oral traditions, slave narratives, regional writing, literature of the environment, and more</li> <li>Demonstrates that American literature was multicultural before Europeans arrived on the continent, and even more so thereafter</li> <li>Offers three distinct paradigms for thinking about American literature, focusing on: genealogies of American literary study; writers and issues; and contemporary theories and practices</li> <li>Enables students and researchers to generate richer, more varied and more comprehensive readings of American literature</li> </ul>