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Native American Stories of the Sacred
Annotated & Explained
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
The wisdom from these stories can become a
companion on your own spiritual journey.
Native American stories of the sacredare intended for more than entertainment: they are teaching tales containing elegantly simple illustrations of time-honored truths. From tales of Creation to “Why?” stories...
by Jon Manchip White
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
This book by the author of several outstanding studies of ancient peoples vividly recounts the story of the Native Americans — from their earliest beginnings as immigrants from the Asian mainland, to their lives as tragic figures on U. S. government-authorized reservations.
A story of great depth...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian
The Crime That Should Haunt America
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Mention “ethnic cleansing” and most Americans are likely to think of “sectarian” or “tribal” conflict in some far-off locale plagued by unstable or corrupt government. According to historian Gary Clayton Anderson, however, the United States has its own legacy of ethnic cleansing, and it...
The Memory of All Ancient Customs
Native American Diplomacy in the Colonial Hudson Valley
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
In The Memory of All Ancient Customs, Tom Arne Midtrød examines the complex patterns of diplomatic, political, and social communication among the American Indian peoples of the Hudson Valley—including the Mahicans, Wappingers, and Esopus Indians—from the early seventeenth century through the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture critically reassesses the significance of American novelist, editor, critic, and activist John Neal to the transatlantic literary culture of the nineteenth century. Long appreciated primarily as a powerful advocate of literary nationalism...
The Essential Writings of Charles Eastman
Indian Boyhood, Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains, The Soul of the Indian & From the Deep Woods to Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
This carefully edited Charles Alexander Eastman collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Charles Alexander Eastman (1858-1939) was a physician writer, national lecturer, and reformer. Eastman was of Santee Dakota, English...
Voices of Italian America
A History of Early Italian American Literature with a Critical Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Voices of Italian America presents a top-rate authoritative study and anthology of the italian-language literature written and published in the United States from the heydays of the Great Migration (1880–1920) to the almost definitive demise of the cultural world of the first generation soon before...
Reading the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
American Literature and Culture, 1870-1893
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
How a prominent magazine shaped nineteenth-century American literature and culture
During the 1870s, the organization and stewardship of American culture by the upper classes began to take hold on a mass scale, due in part to the founding of museums, municipal libraries, symphony halls, theaters,...
States of Trial
Manhood in Philip Roth’s Post-War America
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This study of five towering Philip Roth novels - Operation Shylock, the American Pastoral trilogy, and The Plot Against America - explores his vision of a turbulent post-war America personified in trial-racked Jewish American men. These works collectively register the impact of post-1945 upheavals...
Whitman Noir
Black America and the Good Gray Poet
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Walt Whitman’s now-famous maxim about “containing the multitudes” has often been understood as a metaphor for the democratizing impulses of the young American nation. But did these impulses extend across the color line? Early in his career, especially in the manuscripts leading up to the first...
In This Remote Country
French Colonial Culture in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1780-1860
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
When Anglo-Americans looked west after the Revolution, they hoped to see a blank slate upon which to build their continental republic. However, French settlers had inhabited the territory stretching from Ohio to Oregon for over a century, blending into Native American networks, economies, and communities....
Sister Nations
Native American Women Writers on Community
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
This anthology of fiction, prose, and poetry celebrates the rich diversity of writing by Native American women today. Editors Heid E. Erdrich and Laura Tohe have gathered stories from across the nation that celebrate, record, and explore Native American women's roles in community. The result is a...
by Finn Pollard
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2009
"What then is the American, this new man?" This question is explored here through the lives and writings of a sequence of imaginative authors each of whom confronted a crucial moment in the evolution of the new nation (from Crevecoeur and the Revolution, through Washington Irving and Jeffersonian...
Left of the Color Line
Race, Radicalism, and Twentieth-Century Literature of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
This collection of fifteen new essays explores the impact of the organized Left and Leftist theory on American literature and culture from the 1920s to the present. In particular, the contributors explore the participation of writers and intellectuals on the Left in the development of African American,...