San Antonio College Library

"John Muthyala's Reworlding America moves beyond the U.S.-centered approach of traditional American literary criticism. In this book, Muthyala argues for a transgeographical perspective from which to study the literary and cultural histories of the Americas." "Muthyala questions the nationalistic, religious, and ethnocentric frameworks used to conceptualize American literary history and proposes alternative critical models to engage with the dissonant...

Presents evidence that our continent was visited and influenced by visitors from Europe and the Near East hundreds, even thousands of years before its "official" discovery in 1492. As such, this startling, fresh proof of their powerful impact on the pre-Columbian New World offers us a different view of American origins that threatens to re-write mainstream textbooks.

An anthology of international manifestos from nineteenth and twentieth century movements in art, literature, and culture, which chronicle the opinions of modern intellectuals about the direction of aesthetics and society.