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Hope Isn't Stupid
Utopian Affects in Contemporary American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Hope Isn’t Stupid is the first study to interrogate the neglected connections between affect and the practice of utopia in contemporary American literature. Although these concepts are rarely theorized together, it is difficult to fully articulate utopia without understanding how affects circulate...
by Lawrence Oliver, Michael Nowlin, Jeff Karem
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) exemplified the ideal of the American public intellectual as a writer, educator, songwriter, diplomat, key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and first African American executive of the NAACP. Originally published anonymously in 1912, Johnson’s novel The Autobiography...
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
Native America from 1890 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Chapter after chapter, it's like one shattered myth after another." - NPR
"An informed, moving and kaleidoscopic portrait... Treuer's powerful book suggests the need for soul-searching about the meanings of American history and the stories we tell ourselves...
by John Hay
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Even before the Civil War, American writers were imagining life after a massive global catastrophe. For many, the blank slate of the American continent was instead a wreckage-strewn wasteland, a new world in ruins. Bringing together epic and lyric poems, fictional tales, travel narratives, and scientific...
Border Renaissance
The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Mexican American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Texas Centennial of 1936, commemorated by statewide celebrations of independence from Mexico, proved to be a powerful catalyst for the formation of a distinctly Mexican American identity. Confronted by a media frenzy that vilified "Meskins" as the antithesis of Texan liberty, Mexican...
by Lisa Tatonetti
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
With a new and more inclusive perspective for the growing field of queer Native studies, Lisa Tatonetti provides a genealogy of queer Native writing after Stonewall. Looking across a broad range of literature, Tatonetti offers the first overview and guide to queer Native literature from its rise in the...
Torchbearers of Democracy
African American Soldiers in the World War I Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
On April 2, 1917, Woodrow Wilson thrust the United States into World War I by declaring, "The world must be made safe for democracy." For the 380,000 African American soldiers who fought and labored in the global conflict, these words carried life or death meaning. Relating stories bridging the war...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
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Recovering Native American Writings in the Boarding School Press* is the first comprehensive collection of writings by students and well-known Native American authors who published in boarding school newspapers during the late nineteenth...
Foreign Accents
Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Foreign Accents examines the various transpacific signifying strategies by which poets of Chinese descent in the U.S. have sought to represent cultural tradition in their articulations of an ethnic subjectivity, in Chinese as well as in English. In assessing both the dynamics and the politics of poetic...
by Stith Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
The folklore and mythology of North American Indians is varied and wide-ranging, as shown in this carefully chosen representative sampling of Native American folktales. Assembled by noted folklorist Stith Thompson, the collection includes marvelous narratives from points as distant from one another...
Strong Hearts, Wounded Souls
Native American Veterans of the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
At least 43,000 Native Americans fought in the Vietnam War, yet both the American public and the United States government have been slow to acknowledge their presence and sacrifices in that conflict. In this first-of-its-kind study, Tom Holm draws on extensive interviews with Native American veterans...
by Michael S. Collins, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Understanding Etheridge Knight introduces readers to a major—but understudied—American poet. Etheridge Knight (1931–1991) survived a shrapnel wound suffered during military service in Korea, as well as a drug addiction that led to an eight-year prison sentence, to publish five volumes of poetry...
by Jennifer Ann Ho, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Jennifer Ann Ho introduces readers to a “typical American” writer, Gish Jen, the author of four novels, Typical American, Mona in the Promised Land, The Love Wife, and World and Town; a collection of short stories, Who’s Irish?; and a collection of lectures, Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and...
A Freedom Bought with Blood
African American War Literature from the Civil War to World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In the first comprehensive study of African American war literature, Jennifer James analyzes fiction, poetry, autobiography, and histories about the major wars waged before the desegregation of the U.S. military in 1948. Examining literature about the Civil War, the Spanish-American Wars, World War...