American category: 24906 books
by Alfred A. Cave
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Early in his career as an Indian fighter, American Indians gave Andrew Jackson a name—Sharp Knife—that evoked their sense of his ruthlessness and cruelty. Contrary to popular belief—and to many textbook accounts—in 1830, Congress did not authorize the forcible seizure of Indian land and the...
Pop Culture and the Dark Side of the American Dream
Con Men, Gangsters, Drug Lords, and Zombies
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
The many con men, gangsters, and drug lords portrayed in popular culture are examples of the dark side of the American dream. Viewers are fascinated by these twisted versions of heroic American archetypes, like the self-made man and the entrepreneur. Applying the critical skills he developed as a...
The Sociological Souls of Black Folk
Essays by W. E. B. Du Bois
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
The Souls of Black Folk is W.E.B. Du Bois' most famous work. While the work is often viewed as a classic in African American literature and the history of the African American experience, the sociological significance of the work has been understated. In his initial discussions with the book's original...
by Kirstin L. Squint
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
With the publication of her first novel, Shell Shaker (2001), Choctaw writer LeAnne Howe quickly emerged as a crucial voice in twenty-first-century American literature. Her innovative, award-winning works of fiction, poetry, drama, and criticism capture the complexities of Native American life and...
Anxieties of Experience
The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño offers a new interpretation of US and Latin American literature from the nineteenth century to the present. Revisiting longstanding debates in the hemisphere about whether the source of authority for New World literature...
War Isn't the Only Hell
A New Reading of World War I American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
American World War I literature has long been interpreted as an alienated outcry against modern warfare and government propaganda. This prevailing reading ignores the US army’s unprecedented attempt during World War I to assign men—except, notoriously, African Americans—to positions and ranks...
Disability and the Environment in American Literature
Toward an Ecosomatic Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
This book includes a collection of essays that explore the relationship between Disability Studies and literary ecocriticism, particularly as this relationship plays out in American literature and culture. The contributors to this collection operate from the premise that there is much to be gained...
American Indian Education, 2nd Edition
A History
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Before Europeans arrived in North America, Indigenous peoples spoke more than three hundred languages and followed almost as many distinct belief systems and lifeways. But in childrearing, the different Indian societies had certain practices in common—including training for survival and teaching...
Unsettled Visions
Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
In Unsettled Visions, the activist, curator, and scholar Margo Machida presents a pioneering, in-depth exploration of contemporary Asian American visual art. Machida focuses on works produced during the watershed 1990s, when surging Asian immigration had significantly altered the demographic, cultural,...
Inhuman Citizenship
Traumatic Enjoyment and Asian American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
In Inhuman Citizenship, Juliana Chang claims that literary representations of Asian American domesticity may be understood as symptoms of America’s relationship to its national fantasies and to the “jouissance”—a Lacanian term signifying a violent yet euphoric shattering of the self—that both...
Writing the Goodlife
Mexican American Literature and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Winner of the Western Literature Association’s 2017 Thomas J. Lyon Book Award in Western American Literary and Cultural Studies
Mexican American literature brings a much-needed approach to the increasingly urgent challenges of climate change and environmental injustice. Although current...
by Naomi Lindstrom
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
The world discovered Latin American literature in the twentieth century, but the roots of this rich literary tradition reach back beyond Columbus's discovery of the New World. The great pre-Hispanic civilizations composed narrative accounts of the acts of gods and kings. Conquistadors and friars,...
Racial Asymmetries
Asian American Fictional Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Challenging the tidy links among authorial position, narrative perspective, and fictional content, Stephen Hong Sohn argues that Asian American authors have never been limited to writing about Asian American characters or contexts. Racial Asymmetries specifically examines the importance of first person...
by Margarita Marinova
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
In this study, Marinova examines the diverse practices of crossing boundaries, tactics of translation, and experiences of double and multiple political and national attachments evident in texts about Russo-American encounters from the end of the American Civil War to the Russian Revolution of 1905. Marinova...