Abstract

This article argues that the short-story cycle should be central to teaching American literature, because the genre crystallizes major tensions of American literary history: marginality and inclusion, the individual and the community, and the formation of a national literature from transnational and local materials.

Journal
Pedagogy
Published
2016-04-01
DOI
10.1215/15314200-3435836
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