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Cover of CLEP® American Literature Book + Online
by Jacob Stratman, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016

Earn College Credit with REA's Test Prep for CLEP® American Literature Everything you need to pass the exam and get the college credit you deserve.CLEP® is the most popular credit-by-examination program in the country, accepted by more than 2,900 colleges and universities. For over 15 years, REA has...
Cover of American Impersonal: Essays with Sharon Cameron
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Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014

American Impersonal brings together some of the most influential scholars now working in American literature to explore the impact of one of America's leading literary critics: Sharon Cameron. It engages directly with certain arguments that Cameron has articulated throughout her career, most notably...
Cover of Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895-1941
by Dr John Claborn
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017

The beginning of the 20th century marked a new phase of the battle for civil rights in America. But many of the era's most important African-American writers were also acutely aware of the importance of environmental justice to the struggle. Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature...
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Susan Glaspell in Context

American Theater, Culture, and Politics, 1915-48

by J. Ellen Gainor
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010

Susan Glaspell in Context not only discusses the dramatic work of this key American author -- perhaps best known for her short story "A Jury of Her Peers" and its dramatic counterpart, Trifles -- but also places it within the theatrical, cultural, political, social, historical, and biographical...
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Soul Food

The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time

by Adrian Miller
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013

2014 James Beard Foundation Book Award, Reference and Scholarship Honor Book for Nonfiction, Black Caucus of the American Library Association In this insightful and eclectic history, Adrian Miller delves into the influences, ingredients, and innovations that make up the soul food tradition....
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by R. Jay Magill
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009

A brilliant and timely reflection on irony in contemporary American culture “This book is a powerful and persuasive defense of sophisticated irony and subtle humor that contributes to the possibility of a genuine civic trust and democratic life. R. Jay Magill deserves our congratulations...
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American Slavery As It Is

Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses

by Theodore Dwight Weld
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011

Compiled by a prominent abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld, American Slavery As It Is combines information taken from witnesses, and from active and former slave owners, to generate a condemnation of slavery from both those who observed it and those who perpetuated it. The narrative describes the appalling...
Cover of Screening Minors in Latin American Cinema
by Jack A. Draper III, Sophie Dufays, Hólmfríður Garðarsdóttir
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014

Screening Minors in Latin American Cinema is the first volume to delve into the construction of children's subjectivity and agency in Latin American film, and addresses such questions as: How and to what extent do films express the point of view of the child? How do plots and film practices represent...
Cover of Calvinist Humor in American Literature
by Michael Dunne
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007

Though the phrase "Calvinist humor" may seem to be an oxymoron, Michael Dunne, in highly original and unfailingly interesting readings of major American fiction writers, uncovers and traces two recurrent strands of Calvinist humor descending from Puritan times far into the twentieth century....
Cover of Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American Foundational Literature
by Gesa Mackenthun
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004

This book is a significant contribution to existing research on the themes of race and slavery in the founding literature of the United States. It extends the boundaries of existing research by locating race and slavery within a transnational and 'oceanic' framework. The author applies critical concepts...
Cover of American Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounter
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012

American Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounteroffers a framework for understanding the variety of imagined encounters by eight different American poets with their imagined 'Chinese' subject. The method is historical and materialist, insofar as the contributors to the volume read the claims of...
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Transnationalism and American Literature

Literary Translation 1773–1892

by Colleen G. Boggs
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010

What is transnationalism and how does it affect American literature? This book examines nineteenth century contexts of transnationalism, translation and American literature. The discussion of transnationalism largely revolves around the question of what role nationalism plays in the spaces...
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Sexual Textualities

Essays on Queer/ing Latin American Writing

by David William Foster
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013

Since the 1991 publication of his groundbreaking book Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing, David William Foster has proposed a series of theoretical and critical principles for the analysis of Latin American culture from the perspectives of the queer. This book continues that project...
Cover of The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2005

The diverse countries of Latin America have produced a lively and ever evolving tradition of novels, many of which are read in translation all over the world. This Companion offers a broad overview of the novel's history and analyses in depth several representative works by, for example, Gabriel García...
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