American category: 24906 books
Acts of Rebellion
The Ward Churchill Reader
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
What could be more American than Columbus Day? Or the Washington Redskins? For Native Americans, they are bitter reminders that they live in a world where their identity is still fodder for white society.
"The law has always been used as toilet paper by the status quo where American Indians...
Ghost-Watching American Modernity
Haunting, Landscape, and the Hemispheric Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
In Ghost-Watching American Modernity, María del Pilar Blanco revisits nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts from Spanish America and the United States to ask how different landscapes are represented as haunted sites. Moving from foundational fictions to Westerns, Blanco explores the diverse ways...
Beyond Gatsby
How Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Writers of the 1920s Shaped American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Many of the heralded writers of the 20th century—including Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner—first made their mark in the 1920s, while established authors like Willa Cather and Sinclair Lewis produced some of their most important works during this period....
by Aliki Varvogli
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This book offers a critical study and analysis of American fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It focuses on novels that ‘go outward’ literally and metaphorically, and it concentrates on narratives that take place mainly away from the US’s geographical borders.
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African American Theater
A Cultural Companion
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Written in a clear, accessible, storytelling style, African American Theater will shine a bright new light on the culture which has historically nurtured and inspired Black Theater. Functioning as an interactive guide for students and teachers, African American Theater takes the reader on a journey...
American Poetry in Performance
From Walt Whitman to Hip Hop
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
"Tyler Hoffman brings a fresh perspective to the subject of performance poetry, and this comes at an excellent time, when there is such a vast interest across the country and around the world in the performance of poetry. He makes important connections, explaining things in a manner that remains...
Chaotic Justice
Rethinking African American Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
What is African American about African American literature? Why identify it as a distinct tradition? John Ernest contends that too often scholars have relied on naive concepts of race, superficial conceptions of African American history, and the marginalization of important strains of black scholarship....
Voyages of the Self
Pairs, Parallels, and Patterns in American Art and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Barbara Novak is one of America's premier art historians, the author of the seminal books American Painting of the Nineteenth Century and Nature and Culture, the latter of which was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle...
The Product of Our Souls
Ragtime, Race, and the Birth of the Manhattan Musical Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
In 1912 James Reese Europe made history by conducting his 125-member Clef Club Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. The first concert by an African American ensemble at the esteemed venue was more than just a concert--it was a political act of desegregation, a defiant challenge to the status quo in American...
Racial Innocence
Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
2013 Book Award Winner from the International Research Society in Children's Literature
2012 Outstanding Book Award Winner from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education
2012 Winner of the Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England American Studies Association
2012...
Fascinating Rhythm
Reading Jazz in American Writing
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
How have American writers written about jazz, and how has jazz influenced American literature? In Fascinating Rhythm, David Yaffe explores the relationship and interplay between jazz and literature, looking at jazz musicians and the themes literature has garnered from them by appropriating the style,...
by Alex Dimitrov
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Dimitrov is a vital new energy in American poetry.”-Los Angeles Review of Books
Truth-telling, raw, fierce with feeling.”-Brenda Shaughnessy
Dimitrov can sound at once hip and naive, devoted to the sincerities that other sorts of poets reject or obscure.”-Publishers Weekly
Together...
Black Culture and Black Consciousness
Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2007
When Black Culture and Black Consciousness first appeared thirty years ago, it marked a revolution in our understanding of African American history. Contrary to prevailing ideas at the time, which held that African culture disappeared quickly under slavery and that black Americans had little group...
by Gajanan Khirao
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
In Ancient America ,People from different part of Africa -Asia were migrated to many region of America ,They settled their life by hunting animals and developing societies between 2000 Bce to 8000 Bce ago. They were used different small animals like pigs, dogs as food for living, that time farming...