English Pages []. Transnational Communism across the Americas offers an innovative approach to the study of Latin American communism. A cutting edge study of the relation of Canadian literature to the Americas. A discussion on the ways in which representations in the U. A literary history of our most influential book of all time, by an Oxford scholar and Anglican priest In our culture, th. In Mapping the Americas, Shari M.
Huhndorf tracks changing conceptions of Native culture as it increasingly transcends n. Her undated Rand McNally edition, printed in Chicago, is signed on the inside boards by the juvenile hands of a great-aunt, two of her nephews, and a niece. In such a place, books were neither plentiful nor disposable. This one, possibly given as a prize at Sunday school or at the one-room country school she attended, was clearly treasured. For this pioneering family who came from Iowa to Alberta just after the turn of the twentieth century, the book might have been regarded as their heritage.
Published in , more than a decade before Bulgaria became part of the Soviet sphere, this translation was markedly different from the edition Stefka read as a middle-school student in the s. Targeted to schoolchildren within a Soviet satellite nation, this later edition was, in effect, weaponized literature aimed at discrediting an ideological rival during the Cold War.
The critique drew power from the fact that its author was someone whose credibility within American culture was sacrosanct. Across regime changes in the Soviet Union and even after the dissolution of the empire, the book remained lodged in school curricula, the only novel composed in English and having this status. The varieties multiply exponentially around the globe. This mutability is indicated across the essays in this volume but is by no means limited to these landing points.
Presenting this perspective would be impossible without the expertise and curiosity of our authors. No one person or pair of collaborators could command enough knowledge of all the necessary languages and locales to reveal this history.
