Caliban's America

WITH THE QUINCENTENNIAL REEVALUATION OF AMERICA'S DISCOVERY in full swing, a variety of critical projects have challenged Americanists to rethink the heritage they share with other cultures of the Western hemisphere. Collaborative efforts such as Do the Americas Have a Common Literature?, as well as numerous panels and conferences devoted to topics of pan-Americanism, stand out as examples of this heightened intellectual focus.I At their best, such projects demand a renovation of critical tools and methodologies because their readings simply cannot be contained by the conventional narratives that have directed interests in national cultures. Ultimately, these projects suggest that a new set of more globally oriented approaches will be in order if we are to understand the complex relations that inhere in our America. The extremely valuable contribution of Jose Saldivar's book speaks exactly to this opportunity. In The Dialectics of Our America, readers will find an innovative rethinking of pan-Americanism, one grounded from the outset on Immanuel Wallerstein's notion that, with the rise of global capitalism in the sixteenth century, new forms of intimately related eco

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• Do the Americas Have a Common Literature

  Josef Raab, Gustavo Perez Firmat•American Literature•1991

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