A first of its kind, The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature provides an overview of Comparative North American Literature, a cutting-edge discipline. Contributors make important interventions into multiculturalism in North America and into U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada border literatures.

A first of its kind, The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature provides an overview of Comparative North American Literature, a cutting-edge discipline. Contributors make important interventions into multiculturalism in North America and into U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada border literatures.

1. Introduction: Comparative North American Studies and Its Contexts; Reingard M. Nischik 2. Imagining North America; Rachel Adams 3. Multiculturalism in the United States and Canada; Sabine Sielke 4. Comparing Native Literatures in Canada and the United States; Katja Sarkowsky 5. Comparative Race Studies: Black and White in the United States and Canada; Eva Gruber 6. Naturalization and Citizenship in North America; Mita Banerjee 7. Comparative Canadian/Québécois Literature Studies; Marie Vautier 8. Québécois Literature and American Literature; Jean Morency 9. North America's Francophone Borderlands; Monika Giacoppe 10. The Literatures of the Mexico-U.S. and Canada-U.S. Borders; Claudia Sadowski-Smith 11. Regionalism in American and Canadian Literature; Florian Freitag 12. The North in English Canada and Quebec; Christina Kannenberg 13. North American Urban Fiction; Caroline Rosenthal 14. Modernism in the United States and Canada; Jutta Ernst 15. Postmodernism in the United States and Canada; Julia Breitbach 16. Literary Celebrity in the United States and Canada; Lorraine York 17. North American Literature and Global Studies: Transnationalism at War; Georgiana Banita