Reading American Novels and Multicultural Aesthetics

Samuel Coleridge and European Romanticism: An Interpretive Strategy for America’s Literary Canon * Dialectical and Transcultural Contexts: Otherness, Subjectivity, and Coleridge’s Vision * Historical and Ideological Contexts: The Burden of F.O. Matthiessen’s American Renaissance * Multicultural and Postcolonial Contexts: Philosophy’s Self and Other * Poststructual Contexts: Paul de Man’s Uncertainty Anxiety and the Allegory of Division * A South Western Laguna Native American Perspective: Western Eyes and Indian Visions in Leslie Marmon Silkos’s Ceremony * A Korean American Perspective: Tolerating Truth and Knowledge in Chang-Rae Lee’s Native Speaker * A South Los Angeles Mexican American Perspective: Empty Hope and Full Sensuality in Luis Rodriguez’s Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A * An Antigua Caribbean American Perspective: The Quest for Empowerment in Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John * A White European American Perspective: Imagining Family and Community in Don DeLillo’s White Noise * Feeling Romantic, Thinking Postmodern: Last Words on Form in a Multicultural Age