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U R AY O Á N Wai Chee Dimock and Lawrence Buell, eds., Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature. Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. 312 pp. $65.00; $24.95 paper. n her introduction to Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature, Wai Chee Dimock frames the relationship between "America" and "planet" via "[t]he language of set and subset" (3), insisting, much as in her Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time (2006), on a spatiotemporal or "nested" (8) approach to American literature. Such a move allows her to expand upon the recent postnational move in American literary studies, so as to accommodate what she calls the prenational (7) and the subnational, the latter in reference to Homi K. Bhabha's theorization, in his contribution to the volume, of a "global minoritarian culture" (11). Dimock takes pains to provide a critical framework, alluding to the planetary turn in the work of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Paul Gilroy, but ultimately the value of Shades of the Planet has less to do with theoretical intervention than with opening up ways of reading literature in keeping with postnational concerns. Some of the most intriguing contributions
Contemporary Literature – University of Wisconsin Press
Published: Mar 11, 2009
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