Download or read book Anxieties of Experience written by Jeffrey Lawrence and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anxieties of Experience offers a new interpretation of US and Latin American literature. Rereading a range of canonical works from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass to Roberto Bolaño's 2666, it traces the development and interaction of two distinct literary strains in the Americas: the "US literature of experience" and the "Latin American literature of the reader."