Transnationalism and American Literature

Literary Translation 1773–1892

Colleen G. Boggs

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9780415770682
• eBook ISBN: 9781135985899
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

What is transnationalism and how does it affect American literature?

This book examines nineteenth century contexts of transnationalism, translation and American literature. The discussion of transnationalism largely revolves around the question of what role nationalism plays in the spaces and temporalities of the transatlantic. Boggs demonstrates that the assumption that American literature has become transnational only recently – that there is such a thing as an "era" of transnationalism – marks a blindness to the intrinsic transatlanticism of American literature.

Index

A

• Abolition, Grimké, Charlotte Forten 18–19
• Abolitionist press 21, 129, 134, 141
• Acquired secondary language, Wheatley, Phillis 37
• African-Americans 3–4, 10, 27, 37, 54, 76–77, 134–135
  • Wheatley, Phillis 37–60
• African-American translation 37
• African languages 37
  • loss of 37
• Alienation 17, 38, 51, 53, 59, 74, 132–135, 144
  • Bakhtin, Mikhail 133
  • cultural 132–133
  • intellectual 134
  • labor 132
  • linguistic 133
  • self-alienation 62, 98
• Allegory 6, 47, 104
  • de Man, Paul 104
• Alterity 8–11, 17, 21, 23, 28–29, 38, 60, 62–63, 67–68, 75, 81–82, 91
  • Grimké, Charlotte Forten 17
  • The Scarlet Letter, 8–9
• American
  • redefined 1, 5–6
  • transatlantic relationship 54
• American education 16, 25, 35, 38–39, 43–45, 68–69, 93, 99, 121, 132, 135, 117–118, 147–149
• American exceptionalism, process 3–4, 10–11, 22–23, 28, 35, 107
• American frontier 4, 30, 33, 62, 76, 92, 104, 108–110
• American literary studies 2–3, 5, 8, 32, 92, 149
  • relationship to external cultures 3
  • transnational era 2
• American literature
  • as American translation 32–33, 89, 91–93
  • self-referential 10, 14–15, 31, 40–41, 149
• American poetry, translation 112–126
• Ame...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Multilingual transnationalisms: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Forten Grimké
• Transatlantic education: Phillis Wheatley’s neoclassicism
• The blanched Atlantic: James Fenimore Cooper’s “neutral ground”
• American world literature: Margaret Fuller’s particular universality
• Literary exemplarity: Walt Whitman’s “specimens”
• Intellectual property: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s copyright
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index