American category: 24906 books
The Vietnam War
Topics in Contemporary North American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Reverberations of the Vietnam War can still be felt in American culture. The post-9/11 United States forays into the Middle East, the invasion and occupation of Iraq especially, have evoked comparisons to the nearly two decades of American presence in Viet Nam (1954-1973). That evocation has renewed...
by Randy Boyagoda
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Salman Rushdie once observed that William Faulkner was the writer most frequently cited by third world authors as their major influence. Inspired by the unexpected lines of influence and sympathy that Rushdie’s statement implied, this book seeks to understand connections between American and global...
American Sabor
Latinos and Latinas in US Popular Music / Latinos y latinas en la musica popular estadounidense
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Evoking the pleasures of music as well as food, the word sabor signifies a rich essence that makes our mouths water or makes our bodies want to move. American Sabor traces the substantial musical contributions of Latinas and Latinos in American popular music between World War II and the present in...
Naming Jhumpa Lahiri
Canons and Controversies
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
Jhumpa Lahiri is among the few contemporary writers being read widely by both mainstream and minority audiences, the general public and academic scholars, in the U.S. and globally. While her works focus on specific ethnic experiences of highly educated, upper middle-class professional Bengalis and...
American Indian Medicine Ways
Spiritual Power, Prophets, and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Indigenous people of wisdom have offered prayers of power, protection, and healing since the dawn of time. From Wovoka, the Ghost Dance prophet, to contemporary healer Kenneth Coosewoon, medicine people have called on the spiritual world to help humans in their relationships with each other and the...
Black, White, and Indian
Race and the Unmaking of an American Family
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
Deceit, compromise, and betrayal were the painful costs of becoming American for many families. For people of Indian, African, and European descent living in the newly formed United States, the most personal and emotional choices--to honor a friendship or pursue an intimate relationship--were often...
by dennis broe
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2015
Cold War Expressionism is an expose of the art world after World War II where a new triumphalism and a growing conservatism on the part of the US helped bring to power a depoliticized art which went under the rubric of Abstract Expressionism and which functioned as an advertisement for American capitalism...
African American Gothic
Screams from Shadowed Places
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
This new critique of contemporary African-American fiction explores its intersections with and critiques of the Gothic genre. Wester reveals the myriad ways writers manipulate the genre to critique the gothic's traditional racial ideologies and the mechanisms that were appropriated and re-articulated...
Echoes of Emerson
Rethinking Realism in Twain, James, Wharton, and Cather
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Winner of the 2018 Robert Penn Warren—Cleanth Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Scholarship and Criticism” from the Center for Robert Penn Warren Studies at Western Kentucky University
Probes the ways in which two major periods in nineteenth-century American literature—Romanticism...
by Scott M. DeVries
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature undertakes a comprehensive ecocritical examination of the region’s literature from the foundational texts of the nineteenth century to the most recent fiction. The book begins with a consideration of the way in which Argentine...
Becoming American
The African-American Journey
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Far too many Americans, of all races, are unaware of the pivotal role that people of African descent have played in shaping the US and the world. Even less is known about the role of African peoples in the history of all humankind. Becoming American: The African-American Journey will open their eyes—and...
The Americas That Might Have Been
Native American Social Systems through Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Imagines the development of the Western Hemisphere without European contact and colonization.
This work answers the hypothetical question: What would the Americas be like today—politically, economically, culturally—if Columbus and the Europeans had never found them, and how would American...
by Letha A See
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
In Human Behavior in the Social Environment from an African American Perspective, leading black scholars come together to discuss complex human behavior problems faced by African Americans and to force the abandonment of conceptualization theories made without consideration of the Black experience....
Overcoming the Odds
Raising Academically Successful African American Young Women
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2002
When Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Males appeared in 1998, it was hailed as "a crucial book" (Baltimore Sun) and "undoubtedly one of the most important tools the African American parent can possess" (Kweisi Mfume, President NAACP). Now, in response to enormous...