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Nobody's Home

Speech, Self, and Place in American Fiction from Hawthorne to DeLillo

by Arnold Weinstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 1993

Nobody's Home is a bold view of the American novel from its beginnings to the contemporary scene. Focusing on some of the deepest instincts of American life and culture--individual liberty, freedom of speech, constructing a life--Arnold Weinstein brilliantly sketches the remarkable career of the American...
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by Zitkala-Sa
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015

**Zitkala-Sa was a 19th century Sioux author and activist, and this is a collection of Native American tales he compiled during trips to various reservations. **    Among Native American tribes, the Sioux are one of the best known and most important. Participants in some of the most...
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by Paul Chaat Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009

In this sweeping work of memoir and commentary, leading cultural critic Paul Chaat Smith illustrates with dry wit and brutal honesty the contradictions of life in “the Indian business.”  Raised in suburban Maryland and Oklahoma, Smith dove head first into the political radicalism of the...
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by R. C. De Prospo
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016

The Latest Early American Literature, according to readers for the University of Delaware Press, is “a collection of polemics and manifestoes.” In it R. C. De Prospo bids to follow in the footsteps of the two, rare, early Americanist dissenters whom Philip F. Gura once distinguished as “prophets...
Cover of Evangelicalism and the Politics of Reform in Northern Black Thought, 1776-1863
by Rita Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011

During the revolutionary age and in the early republic, when racial ideologies were evolving and slavery expanding, some northern blacks surprisingly came to identify very strongly with the American cause and to take pride in calling themselves American. In this intriguing study, Rita Roberts explores...
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The Intimate University

Korean American Students and the Problems of Segregation

by Nancy Abelmann
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009

The majority of the 30,000-plus undergraduates at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign—including the large population of Korean American students—come from nearby metropolitan Chicago. Among the campus’s largest non-white ethnicities, Korean American students arrive at college hoping...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017

This book explores the Gothic mode as it appears in the literature, visual arts, and culture of different areas of Latin America. Focusing on works from authors in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, the Andes, Brazil, and the Southern Cone, the essays in this volume illuminate the existence of...
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Sea-Brothers

The Tradition of American Sea Fiction from Moby-Dick to the Present

by Bert Bender
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015

Sea-Brothers offers the most extensive analysis to date of the sea and its meaning in American literature. On the basis of his study of Melville, Crane, London, Hemingway, Matthiessen, and ten lesser-known sea-writers, Bert Bender argues that the tradition of American sea fiction did not end with...
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Reimagining Indians

Native Americans through Anglo Eyes, 1880-1940

by Sherry L. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000

Reimagining Indians investigates a group of Anglo-American writers whose books about Native Americans helped reshape Americans' understanding of Indian peoples at the turn of the twentieth century. Hailing from the Eastern United States, these men and women traveled to the American West and discovered...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013

This essential reference work enables a deeper understanding of contemporary challenges in the lives of American Indians and Alaskan Natives today, carefully reviewing their unique problems and proposing potential solutions. • Provides a current and comprehensive analysis of contemporary...
Cover of Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction
by Keith Byerman
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006

With close readings of more than twenty novels by writers including Ernest Gaines, Toni Morrison, Charles Johnson, Gloria Naylor, and John Edgar Wideman, Keith Byerman examines the trend among African American novelists of the late twentieth century to write about black history rather than about their...
Cover of The Native American Almanac: A Portrait of Native America Today
by Arlene B. Hirschfelder, Martha Kreipe de Montaño
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008

"...an excellent overview of past and present Native American life." —Library Journal "Best research tool." —Lingua Franca Wide-ranging, authoritative, and timely, here is an illuminating portrait of America's Native peoples, combining information about their...
Cover of Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776
by Patrick Spero
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018

The untold story of the “Black Boys,” a rebellion on the American frontier in 1765 that sparked the American Revolution. In 1763, the Seven Years’ War ended in a spectacular victory for the British. The French army agreed to leave North America, but many Native Americans, fearing that...
Cover of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Scene
by Ronald Berman
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017

***A 2018 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title A study of the philosophical, intellectual, and political influences on the artistic creations of Fitzgerald and key early American modernist writers*** F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Scene continues Ronald Berman’s lifelong study of...
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