American studies in an age of globalization

American Quarterly

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 543-562

  Ickstadt, Heinz ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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EID: 60949122874     PISSN: 00030678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/aq.2002.0036     Document Type: Review

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13. As qtd. in David Lodge, After Bakhtin: Essays on Fiction and Criticism (London and New York: Routledge, 1990), 181
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38. Rowe, "A Future for 'American Studies,'" 271
39. Saldívar, Dialectics of America
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44. The phrase is George Hutchinson's; see Hutchinson, The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1995), 446
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46. Hutchinson, The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White
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48. Sieglinde Lemke, Primitivist Modernism: Black Culture and the Origins of Transatlantic Modernism (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998)
49. "Canadian literature evolved directly from Victorian into Postmodern," Robert Rroetsch, "A Canadian Issue," boundary 2, 3 (fall 1975): 1