Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Comparative North American literary history, alterity, and a hermeneutics of non-transcendence; W.E.B. Du Bois, Hegel, and the staging of alterity; Double consciousness, African American tradition, and the vernacular: Henry Louis Gates and Houston Baker; Native writing, orality, and anti-imperial translation: Thomas King and Gerald Vizenor; Genealogies of difference; Notes; References; Index
Summary
In this original and ground-breaking study, Winfried Siemerling examines the complexities of identity and recognition in the meaning of 'American.'
