Trans-Atlantic Stories, Transnational Perspectives, Hemispheric Mutations: American Literature Beyond the Nation.

Critical framing of the question of archival research in literary studies with reference to the recent trend in trans-Atlantic or New-Atlantic Studies. Problems of American literature and the definition of what constitutes a literary archive vis-a-vis the loss of referents that the "Atlantic" as a watery space of loss and transformation stands for. Discussion of what it means today to frame American Literature at supra-national level. Pros and Cons. REview of critical literatur