American category: 24906 books
Penumbra
The Premier Stage for African American Drama
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Penumbra Theatre Company was founded in 1976 by Lou Bellamy as a venue for African American voices within the Twin Cities theatre scene and has stood for more than thirty-five years at the intersection of art, culture, politics, and local community engagement. It has helped launch the careers of many...
by Valerie Babb
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
A History of the African American Novel offers an in-depth overview of the development of the novel and its major genres. In the first part of this book, Valerie Babb examines the evolution of the novel from the 1850s to the present, showing how the concept of black identity has transformed along...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2006
The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture offers a comprehensive, authoritative and accessible overview of the cultural themes and intellectual issues that drive the dominant culture of the twentieth century. This companion explores the social, political and economic forces that have made...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw both the consolidation of American print culture and the establishment of an African American literary tradition, yet the two are too rarely considered in tandem. In this landmark volume, a stellar group of established and emerging scholars ranges over periods,...
Conquest of the New Word
Experimental Fiction and Translation in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Latin American fiction won great acclaim in the United States during the 1960s, when many North American writers and critics felt that our national writing had reached a low ebb. In this study of experimental fiction from both Americas, Johnny Payne argues that the North American reception of the "boom"...
The Poetics of Transition
Emerson, Pragmatism, and American Literary Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 1999
The Poetics of Transition examines the connection between American pragmatism and literary modernism by focusing on the concept of transition as a theme common to both movements. Jonathan Levin begins with the Emersonian notion that transition—the movement from one state or condition to another...
Cold War American Literature and the Rise of Youth Culture
Children of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Demands placed on many young Americans as a result of the Cold War give rise to an increasingly age-segregated society. This separation allowed adolescents and young adults to begin to formulate an identity distinct from previous generations, and was a significant factor in their widespread rejection...
Invalid Women
Figuring Feminine Illness in American Fiction and Culture, 1840-1940
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
*"A fine example of politically engaged literary criticism.--Belles Lettres
"Price Herndl's compelling individual readings of works by major writers (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hawthorne, Wharton, James, Fitzgerald) and minor ones complement her examination of germ theory, psychic and...
Red Land, Red Power
Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
In lucid narrative prose, Sean Kicummah Teuton studies the stirring literature of “Red Power,” an era of Native American organizing that began in 1969 and expanded into the 1970s. Teuton challenges the claim that Red Power thinking relied on romantic longings for a pure Indigenous past and culture....
"To Remain an Indian"
Lessons in Democracy from a Century of Native American Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What might we learn from Native American experiences with schools to help us forge a new vision of the democratic ideal—one that respects, protects, and promotes diversity and human rights? In this fascinating portrait of American Indian education over the past century, the authors critically...
Hemispheric Imaginations
North American Fictions of Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
What image of Latin America have North American fiction writers created, found, or echoed, and how has the prevailing discourse about the region shaped their work? How have their writings contributed to the discursive construction of our southern neighbors, and how has the literature undermined this...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
For two decades, the 'transnational turn' in literary studies has generated enormous comment and controversy. This Companion provides a comprehensive account of the scope, impact, and critical possibilities of the transnational turn in American literary studies. It situates the study of American literature...
by Anna Andes, Irene Gammel, Miriam S. Gogol
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Working Women in American Literature, 1865–1950 consists of eight original essays by literary, historical, and multicultural critics on the subject of working women in late-nineteenth- to mid-twentieth-century American literature. The volume examines how the American working woman has been presented,...
Dreaming Out Loud
African American Novelists at Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Dreaming Out Loud brings together essays by many of the most well-known and respected African American writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, discussing various aspects of the vocation, craft, and art of writing fiction. Though many of the writers included here are also accomplished...