Ziegler, Heide2013-08-142016-03-312013-08-142016-03-311993392959577http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:93-opus-86119http://elib.uni-stuttgart.de/handle/11682/5395http://dx.doi.org/10.18419/opus-5378This essay ought to be seen as part of an ongoing attempt to view America's recent and almost feverish struggle to redefine its literature in multicultural terms from a more distant European perspective. Implied in this attempt is the observation that American literary critics - quite in contrast to their European counterparts - are increasingly faced with the need to consider the growing impact of literature on the academic politics of their nation.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessAmerikanistik , Literaturgeschichte810bookPart