‘Winfried Siemerling’s exciting New North American Studies shows what a spatial hermeneutics can do when applied to certain literary and cultural inquiry. This marvellous book … offers one of the first systematic comparative readings of the multi-cultures and languages of North America. A shot across the bow, it reconfigures our entire notion of an “Americas” studies.’ – Werner Sollors, Harvard University
‘An important and worthwhile study.’ – Topia
‘Winfried Siemerling’s The New North American Studies offers a fresh, critical analysis of the major figures and trends in US and Canadian criticism of the multicultural era.’ – Werner Sollors, Harvard University
‘This is a serious rethinking of American Studies in both method and content. It moves the debates about multi-culturalism and canon formation in exciting new directions.’ – Linda Hutcheon, University of Toronto
‘Winfried Siemerling’s exciting New North American Studies shows what a spatial hermeneutics can do when applied to certain literary and cultural inquiry: This marvelous book starts with a demarcation of the cognitive maps that frame the “New World” and the Continent of “North America” and elaborates the resources of these conceptual elements across the fields of contention that situate the emergent cultures of diasporic modernity. Its emphasis on location and relational articulations across topographical networks offers one of the first systematic comparative readings of the muti-cultures and languages of North America. A shot across the bow, it reconfigures our entire notion of an “Americas” studies.’ – Hortense Spillers, Cornell University
“…an important new contribution to discussions of dialogism and alterity in relation to postcolonial and racial identity, and the critical distinctions made here are clear and precise.” – University of Toronto Quarterly
“Siemerling’s work is a valuable resource to those interested in ethnicity, identity, cultural studies, and multiculturalism in the context of North America, and it is unique in its examination of the specific Canadian situation, juxtaposing both multiculturalism and bilingualism.”
-Peruvemba S. Jaya, Department of Communication, University of Ottawa
“Winfried Siemerling’s The New North American Studies offers a fresh, critical analysis of the major figures and trends in US and Canadian criticism of the multicultural era.” Werner Sollors, Harvard University
“This is a serious rethinking of American Studies in both method and content. It moves the debates about multi-culturalism and canon formation in exciting new directions.” Linda Hutcheon, University of Toronto
“This marvelous book starts with a demarcation of the cognitive maps that frame the “New World” and the Continent of “North America” and elaborates the resources of these conceptual elements across the fields of contention that situate the emergent cultures of diasporic modernity. Its emphasis on location and relational articulations across topographical networks offers one of the first systematic comparative readings of the multi-cultures and languages of North America. A shot across the bow, it reconfigures our entire notion of an ‘Americas’ studies.” Hortense Spillers, Cornell University
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