Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature

Pease Note 2

This call for the worlding of United States literary works began two decades earlier when numerous American studies scholars published works — Cultures of United States Imperialism, ed. Amy Kaplan and Donald Pease (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993), 3–21; Carolyn Porter, “What We Know That We Don’t Know: Remapping American Literary Studies,” American Literary History 6 (1994): 467–526; Gregory S. Jay, “The End of American Literature,” College English 53 (1991): 264–281; Jane C. Desmond and Virginia R. Dominguez, “Resituating American Studies in a Critical Internationalism,” American Quarterly 48 (1996): 475–490 — that generated a post-national geopolitical imaginary emerging at the critical juncture between American Studies and postcolonial theory, comparative literature, and the study of globalization. The fact that the demand for the worlding of American literature increased exponentially after 9/11 discloses the increased urgency of this pre-existing desire.

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