American category: 24906 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
American Literature in Transition, 2000–2010 illuminates the dynamic transformations that occurred in American literary culture during the first decade of the twenty-first century. The volume is the first major critical collection to address the literature of the 2000s, a decade that saw dramatic...
Reading Contemporary African American Literature
Black Women’s Popular Fiction, Post-Civil Rights Experience, and the African American Canon
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Reading Contemporary African American Literature focuses on the subject of contemporary African American popular fiction by women. Bragg’s study addresses why such work should be the subject of scholarly examination, describes the events and attitudes which account for the critical neglect of this...
Authority, Piracy, and Captivity in Colonial Spanish American Writing
Juan de Castellanos's Elegies of Illustrious Men of the Indies
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Authority, Piracy, and Captivity in Colonial Spanish American Writing examines the intricate bond between poetry and history writing that shaped the theory and practice of empire in early colonial Spanish-American society. The book explores from diverse perspectives how epic and heroic poetry served...
The New Mutants
Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
How fantasy meets reality as popular culture evolves and ignites postwar gender, sexual, and race revolutions.
2017 The Association for the Studies of the Present Book Prize
Finalist Mention, 2017 Lora Romero First Book Award Presented by the American Studies Association
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No More Separate Spheres!
A Next Wave American Studies Reader
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2002
No More Separate Spheres! challenges the limitations of thinking about American literature and culture within the narrow rubric of “male public” and “female private” spheres from the founders to the present. With provocative essays by an array of cutting-edge critics with diverse viewpoints,...
American Colonial Women and Their Art
A Chronological Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Less celebrated than their male counterparts, women have been vital contributors to the arts. Works by women of the colonial era represent treasured accomplishments of American culture and still impress us today, centuries after their creation. The breadth of creative expression is as impressive as...
by David Lehman, Dana Gioia
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
The 2018 edition of the Best American Poetry—“a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune)—collects the most significant poems of the year, chosen by Poet Laureate of California Dana Gioia.
The guest editor for 2018, Dana Gioia, has an unconventional poetic...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
The Native Americans hold very sacred traditions. They believe that spirits are everywhere in nature. In this history book, you're going to learn about the Native American Indian religion, mythology and legends. By reading the pages of this book, your child will be several steps closer to truly knowing who the Native American Indians are. Secure a copy of this book today!
by Zitkala-Sa
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
American Indian Stories (1921) is remarkable for being perhaps the first literary work by a Native-American woman created without the mediation of a non-Native interpreter, or collaborator. Zitkala-Sa vividly articulates her disillusionment with the harshness of American-Indian boarding schools and the...
by God
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019
The Revised Version, Standard American Edition of the Bible, more commonly known as the American Standard Version (ASV), is a Bible translation into English that was completed in 1901, with the publication of the revision of the Old Testament; the revised New Testament had been released in 1900.
It...
Crossing the Line
Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2000
As W. E. B. DuBois famously prophesied in The Souls of Black Folk, the fiction of the color line has been of urgent concern in defining a certain twentieth-century U.S. racial “order.” Yet the very arbitrariness of this line also gives rise to opportunities for racial “passing,” a practice...
Virtual Americas
Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2002
Arguing that limited nationalist perspectives have circumscribed the critical scope of American Studies scholarship, Virtual Americas advocates a comparative criticism that illuminates the work of well-known literary figures by defamiliarizing it—placing it in unfamiliar contexts. Paul Giles looks...
South American Grill
Feasts from Brazil to Patagonia
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Building on the rapid growing popularity of South American food and in particular, the asados and churrascos of Argentina and Brazil, South American Grill introduces wonderful and varied dishes from this food-loving continent. Filled with over 75 recipes that are guaranteed to please even the biggest...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Rethinking the category of aesthetics in light of recent developments in literary theory and social criticism, the contributors to this volume showcase the interpretive possibilities available to those who bring politics, culture, ideology, and conceptions of identity into their critiques. Essays...