American category: 24906 books
Native Activism in Cold War America
The Struggle for Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2008
Labriola Center Book Award
The heyday of American Indian activism is generally seen as bracketed by the occupation of Alcatraz in 1969 and the Longest Walk in 1978; yet Native Americans had long struggled against federal policies that threatened to undermine tribal sovereignty and self-determination....
Native American Fiction
A User's Manual
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
An entirely new approach to reading, understanding, and enjoying Native American fiction
This book has been written with the narrow conviction that if Native American literature is worth thinking about at all, it is worth thinking about as literature. The vast majority of thought that has been...
Reconstituting the American Renaissance
Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2003
Challenging the standard periodization of American literary history, Reconstituting the American Renaissance reinterprets the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman and the relationship of these two authors to each other. Jay Grossman argues that issues of political representation—involving...
This Is Not a President
Sense, Nonsense, and the American Political Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Read The Chronicle of Higher Ed Author Interview
In This Is Not a President, Diane Rubenstein looks at the postmodern presidency - from Reagan and George H. W. Bush, through the current administration, and including Hillary. Focusing on those seemingly inexplicable gaps or blind spots in recent American...
The Dialectics of Our America
Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1991
Joining the current debates in American literary history, José David Saldívar offers a challenging new perspective on what constitutes not only the canon in American literature, but also the notion of America itself. His aim is the articulation of a fresh, transgeographical conception of American...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
In the 1960s, there occurred amongst Latin American writers a sudden explosion of literary activity known as the ‘Boom’. It marked an increase in the production and availability of innovative and experimental novels. But the ‘Boom’ of the 1960s should not be taken as the only flowering of...
American and Latin-American Indians:
A Brief and Informative Guide-And Much More
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2000
This brief informative guide to American, and Latin- American, Indians will save one much time and trouble when researching for reports or essays. I have covered as much as possible, with the intent of keeping it as brief as I possibly could.
This brief guide covers much more than the American...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
*Includes pictures of important people and places. *Explains the origins, history, religion, and social structure of the Hopi*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents.“Before you take any decision, consider its effect on the next seven generations.” Hopi proverbFrom...
American Fiction of the 1990s
Reflections of history and culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
American Fiction of the 1990s: Reflections of History and Culture brings together essays from international experts to examine one of the most vital and energized decades in American literature. This volume reads the rich body of 1990s American fiction in the context of key cultural concerns of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Voices of the American Indian Experience provides unique insights into American Indian history by focusing on Indian accounts instead of on relying on other sources. As a result, their voices are clearer, and readers learn more about Indians directly from Indians, rather than through accounts that...
by Andy Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Philip Roth and the American Liberal Tradition offers a fresh reading of the later career development of one of America’s most celebrated authors. Through a contextual analysis of a select number of texts, this innovative study discusses how famed novels such as American Pastoral and The Plot against...
Nossa and Nuestra América
Inter-American Dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Is Brazil part of Latin America, or an island unto itself? As Nossa and Nuestra América: Inter-American Dialogues demonstrates, this question has been debated by Brazilian and Spanish American intellectuals alike since the early nineteenth century, though it has received limited scholarly attention...
Archives of Flesh
African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Enlists the principles of post-humanist critique in order to investigate decades of intimate dialogues between African American and Spanish intellectuals
In Archives of Flesh, Robert Reid-Pharr reveals the deep history of intellectual engagement between African America and Spain. Opening a...
by Quintard Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 1999
"This is an enthralling work that will be essential reading for years to come. You finish it understanding how integral a part blacks were of the making of the West and, indeed, America." — David Nicholson, Washington Post
A landmark history of African Americans in the West, In...