American category: 24906 books
Birthing a Nation
Gender, Creativity, and the West in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Birthing a Nation is about national identity and the American West. If it is a truism that facing west was the American male version of invoking the Muse, what happened if you were female? Most past interpretations of western American literature have echoed Frederick Jackson Turner’s frontier hypothesis,...
Dislocating Race and Nation
Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
American literary nationalism is traditionally understood as a cohesive literary tradition developed in the newly independent United States that emphasized the unique features of America and consciously differentiated American literature from British literature. Robert S. Levine challenges this assessment...
Calls and Responses
The American Novel of Slavery since Gone with the Wind
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
In this comprehensive, groundbreaking study, Tim A. Ryan explores how American novelists since World War I have imagined the institution of slavery and the experience of those involved in it. Complicating the common assumption that authentic black-authored fiction about slavery is starkly opposed...
Diversión
Play and Popular Culture in Cuban America
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Winner, 2018 Peter C. Rollins Book Prize, presented by the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association
Winner, 2018 Robert K. Martin Book Prize, presented by the Canadian American Studies Association
Honorable Mention, 2019 Outstanding Book Award, given by the Latina/o Studies Section of the Latin...
Such a Rare Thing
The Art of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
An important contribution to the field of American literary studies
“Groundbreaking work in Anderson scholarship in particular and, on the wider scene, in American literary studies.”
—Robert Dunne, author of A New Book of the Grotesques: Contemporary Approaches to Sherwood Anderson’s...
Faithful Vision
Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
"This is a marvelous and sustained discussion of 'faithful vision' and its significant influence on African American literature." -- American Literature
In Faithful Vision, James W. Coleman places under his critical lens a wide array of African American novels written during the last half...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
The volume is a contribution to the ongoing debate on the internationalization of American Studies. The essays by European, American and Latin American scholars provide critical evaluations of a wide range of concepts, including trans-national and post-national, international, trans-atlantic, trans-pacific,...
American literature and Irish culture, 1910-55
The politics of enchantment
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This book discusses how and why American modernist writers turned to Ireland at various stages during their careers. By placing events such as the Celtic Revival and the Easter Rising at the centre of the discussion, it shows how Irishness became a cultural determinant in the work of American modernists....
by Annette Debo
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
In The American H.D., Annette Debo considers the significance of nation in the artistic vision and life of the modernist writer Hilda Doolittle. Her versatile career stretching from 1906 to 1961, H.D. was a major American writer who spent her adult life abroad; a poet and translator who also wrote...
Miles of Stare
Transcendentalism and the Problem of Literary Vision in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Miles of Stare explores the problem of nineteenth-century American literary vision: the strange conflation of visible reality and poetic language that emerges repeatedly in the metaphors and literary creations of American transcendentalists.
The strangeness of nineteenth-century poetic vision...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The American Renaissance has been a foundational concept in American literary history for nearly a century. The phrase connotes a period, as well as an event, an iconic turning point in the growth of a national literature and a canon of texts that would shape American fiction, poetry, and oratory...
Contemporary Reconfigurations of American Literary Classics
The Origin and Evolution of American Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The number and popularity of novels that have overtly reconfigured aspects of classic American texts suggests a curious trend for both readers and writers, an impulse to retell and reread books that have come to define American culture. This book argues that by revising canonical American literature,...
by Karen Herndon
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Can history be fun? When kids follow Grace (a fifth grader) as she explores her Cheyenne history through interesting stories about people and events, fun activities, tasty recipes, old and new photographs, maps, interviews, and thoughtful questions, it is fun. This book looks at history from an American...
by N. Bruce Duthu
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2008
A perfect introduction to a vital subject very few Americans understand-the constitutional status of American Indians
Few American s know that Indian tribes have a legal status unique among America's distinct racial and ethnic groups: they are sovereign governments who engage in relations with...