As others read us: international perspectives on American literature

Abstract

Britain: Dean Acheson and the Potato Head Blues or British academic attitudes to America and its literature, Robert Lawson-Peebles Bulgaria: one more window to the world - American literature in Bulgaria, Natalia Klissourska China: progress and problems - American literary studies in China during the post-Mao era, Xiao-huang Yin Denmark: the American within - Danes and American literature, Jan Nordby Gretlund France: American literature in France - pleasures in perspective, Marc Chenetier Germany: stepping out of Hitler's shadow to embrace Uncle Sam? - notes toward a history of American literary studies in West Germany, Hans-Peter Wagner Greece: (mis)understanding America's literary canon - the Greek paradigm, Savas Patsalidis Israel: the counterlife - Israeli perspectives on American literature, Hana Wirth-Nesher Italy: a place for all - old and new myths in the Italian appreciation of American literature, Michele Bottalico Japan: cultural colonization? - American literary studies in Japan, Keiko Beppu Mexico: no country is an island - some aspects of American literature, Federico Patan The Netherlands: cutting loose - American literary studies in the Netherlands, Theo D'haen Poland: catching up - the Polish critical response to American literature, Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch South Africa: apartheid defines the contours of American literary studies in Southern Africa, Mbulelo Vizikhungo Mzamame Sweden: the dual canon - a Swedish example, Rolf Lunden.