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Post-Conflict Central American Literature
Searching for Home and Longing to Belong
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This is the first book-length study to consider the development and significance of Central American post-conflict poetry and to study poets such as Luis Chaves, Marta Leonor González, Susana Reyes, and Juan Sobalvarro together with well-known short fiction writers Claudia Hernández, Jacinta Escudos,...
The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture
Engaging Blackness
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
This bookexamines contemporary Afro-Latin@ literature and its depiction of the multifaceted identity encompassing the separate identifications of Americans and the often-conflicting identities of blacks and Latin@s. The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture highlights...
LatinAsian Cartographies
History, Writing, and the National Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
LatinAsian Cartographies examines how Latina/o and Asian American writers provide important counter-narratives to the stories of racial encroachment that have come to characterize twenty-first century dominant discourses on race. Susan Thananopavarn contends that the Asian American and Latina/o presence...
Américo Paredes
Culture and Critique
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Several biographies of Américo Paredes have been published over the last decade, yet they generally overlook the paradoxical nature of his life's work. Embarking on an in-depth, critical exploration of the significant body of work produced by Paredes, José E. Limón (one of Paredes's students and now...
Universes without Us
Posthuman Cosmologies in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a wide variety of American writers proposed the existence of energies connecting human beings to cosmic processes. From varying points of view—scientific, philosophical, religious, and literary—they suggested that such energies would eventually...
Inscrutable Belongings
Queer Asian North American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Inscrutable Belongings brings together formalist and contextual modes of critique to consider narrative strategies that emerge in queer Asian North American literature. Stephen Hong Sohn provides extended readings of fictions involving queer Asian North American storytellers, looking to texts including...
The Big Smallness
Niche Marketing, the American Culture Wars, and the New Children’s Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
This book is the first full-length critical study to explore the rapidly growing cadre of amateur-authored, independently-published, and niche-market picture books that have been released during the opening decades of the twenty-first century. Emerging from a powerful combination of the ease and affordability...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
For better or worse, America lives in the age of “worlded” literature. Not the world literature of nations and nationalities considered from most powerful and wealthy to the least. And not the world literature found with a map. Rather, the worlded literature of individuals crossing borders, mixing...
Fantasies of the New Class
Ideologies of Professionalism in Post–World War II American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
America's post–World War II prosperity created a boom in higher education, expanding the number of university-educated readers and making a new literary politics possible. Writers began to direct their work toward the growing professional class, and the American public in turn became more open to...
The Logic of Slavery
Debt, Technology, and Pain in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
In American history and throughout the Western world, the subjugation perpetuated by slavery has created a unique 'culture of slavery'. That culture exists as a metaphorical, artistic and literary tradition attached to the enslaved - human beings whose lives are 'owed' to another, who are used as...
Novels in the Time of Democratic Writing
The American Example
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
During the thirty years following ratification of the U.S. Constitution, the first American novelists carried on an argument with their British counterparts that pitted direct democracy against representative liberalism. Such writers as Hannah Foster, Isaac Mitchell, Royall Tyler, Leonore Sansay,...
Novels, Readers, and Reviewers
Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
This book describes and characterizes responses of American readers to fiction in the generation before the Civil War. It is based on close examination of the reviews of all novels—both American and European—that appeared in major American periodicals during the years 1840–1860, a period in...
War No More
The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature, 1861-1914
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Until now, scholars have portrayed America's antiwar literature as an outgrowth of World War I, manifested in the works of writers such as Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos. But in War No More, Cynthia Wachtell corrects the record by tracing the steady and inexorable rise of antiwar writing in...
Invisible Ball of Dreams
Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Winner of the 2018 John Coates Next Generation Award from the Negro Leagues Research Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research
Although many Americans think of Jackie Robinson when considering the story of segregation in baseball, a long history of tragedies and triumphs precede...