TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stavans,Ilan
TI  - What is American literature?
SN  - 9780198816218 (hardcover)
AV  - PS 88 S798w 2022
U1  - 810.9 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Oxford,  United Kingdom
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Literatura estadounidense
KW  - Historia y crítica
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; I. The Ambition of origins -- Manifest Destiny -- Native trail -- Original sin -- "Give me your tired" -- The epicenter of narcissism -- II. Hucks R' Us -- Down the Mississippi -- Kids' lit -- Mending walls -- Sexual magnets -- I am anger -- III. Language and authority -- Forever young -- Of dictionaries and academies -- In defense of ignorance -- The part about superheroes -- Auto-corrected -- IV. Surviving democracy -- Books as merchandise -- The coolness of American libraries -- Teaching in the age of intolerance -- Born translated -- Unhappy people -- Epilogue: the Second American Civil War
N2  - "An engaging, thought-provoking, and polemical volume on what makes American literature what it is today"--
ER  -