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![Cover of American Poets and Poetry: From the Colonial Era to the Present [2 volumes]](https://www.kuoky.com/images/2015/march/300x300/9781610698320-QCWu_300x.jpg)
by Mary McAleer Balkun, Jeffrey H. Gray, James H. McCorkle
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
American poetry springs up out of all walks of life; its poems are "maternal as well as paternal…stuff'd with the stuff that is coarse and stuff'd with the stuff that is fine," as Walt Whitman wrote, adding "Of every hue and caste am I, of every rank and religion." Written for high...
Dark Nature
Anti-Pastoral Essays in American Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
In The Ecological Thought, eco-philosopher Timothy Morton has argued for the inclusion of “dark ecology” in our thinking about nature. Dark ecology, he argues, puts hesitation, uncertainty, irony, and thoughtfulness back into ecological thinking.” The ecological thought, he says, should include...
Liminality, Hybridity, and American Women's Literature
Thresholds in Women's Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
This book highlights the multiplicity of American women’s writing related to liminality and hybridity from its beginnings to the contemporary moment. Often informed by notions of crossing, intersectionality, transition, and transformation, these concepts as they appear in American women’s writing...
by Wenying Xu
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Asian American literature is one of the most recent forms of ethnic literature and is already becoming one of the most prominent, given the large number of writers, the growing ethnic population from the region, the general receptivity of this body of work, and the quality of the authors. In recent...
The Spanish American Novel
A Twentieth-Century Survey
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
In The Spanish American Novel, John S. Brushwood analyzes the twentieth-century Spanish American novel as an artistic expression of social reality. In relating the generic history of the novel to extraliterary events in Spanish America, he shows how twentieth-century fiction sets forth the essence of...
Literary Research and the American Modernist Era
Strategies and Sources
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Characterized by its move away from Romanticism and toward mundane, every day subjects, as well as incorporating such ideas as metanarrative, stream of consciousness, and disjointed timelines, the American Modernist Era was at its heyday during the years 1914-1949. It produced such great authors as...
by Andrew Hunter Whiteford
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
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North American Indian Arts is a fascinating introduction to the arts and crafts reflected in the material culture of North American Indians. Knowledge of the skills and techniques developed by the various Native American tribes, and the fine materials...
The Wandering Signifier
Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2008
While Jews figure in the work of many modern Latin American writers, the questions of how and to what end they are represented have received remarkably little critical attention. Helping to correct this imbalance, Erin Graff Zivin traces the symbolic presence of Jews and Jewishness in late-nineteenth-...
American Creoles
The Francophone Caribbean and the American South
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
The Francophone Caribbean and the American South are sites born of the plantation, the common matrix for the diverse nations and territories of the circum-Caribbean. This book takes as its premise that the basic configuration of the plantation, in terms of its physical layout and the social relations...
by Naomi Lindstrom
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Literature in Latin America has long been a vehicle for debates over the interpretation of social history, cultural identity, and artistic independence. Indeed, Latin American literature has gained international respect for its ability to present social criticism through works of imaginative creation.In...
Translating Empire
José Martí, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American Modernities
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2009
In Translating Empire, Laura Lomas uncovers how late nineteenth-century Latino migrant writers developed a prescient critique of U.S. imperialism, one that prefigures many of the concerns about empire, race, and postcolonial subjectivity animating American studies today. During the 1880s and early...
Tricksters and Cosmopolitans
Cross-Cultural Collaborations in Asian American Literary Production
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Tricksters and Cosmopolitans is the first sustained exploration into the history of cross-cultural collaborations between Asian American writers and their non–Asian American editors and publishers. The volume focuses on the literary production of the cosmopolitan subject, featuring the writers Sui...
Poems Containing History
Twentieth-Century American Poetry's Engagement with the Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Ezra Pound’s definition of an epic as “a poem containing history” raises questions: how can a poem “contain” history? And if it can, does it help us to think about history in ways that conventional historiography cannot? Poems Containing History: Twentieth-Century American Poetry’s Engagement...
American Hungers
The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2009
Social anxiety about poverty surfaces with startling frequency in American literature. Yet, as Gavin Jones argues, poverty has been denied its due as a critical and ideological framework in its own right, despite recent interest in representations of the lower classes and the marginalized. These insights...