National characteristics in literature
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Regional Fictions
Writing and orality
Shifting the ground
Surveyors of Customs
Goodly is our heritage
After Ireland
Colonial fantasies
Love's whipping boy
Unsettled Remains
Portrayals of Americans on the world stage
American superrealism
Mark Twain on the loose
American Dream, American Nightmare
Haiti and the United States
Behind her times
The devil's own mirror
Zionist Paradox
Hanif Kureishi
Cities of Affluence And Anger
The Dream Of The Great American Novel
AMERICAN DECLARATIONS
The poetics of English nationhood, 1590-1612
Hanif Kureishi
Master plots
Love and death in the American novel
The republic of imagination
Political fiction and the American self
Regions of identity
Breaking bounds