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Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
This cutting-edge Companion is a comprehensive resource for the study of the modern American novel. Published at a time when literary modernism is being thoroughly reassessed, it reflects current investigations into the origins and character of the movement as a whole.
Brings together 28 original...
From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park
Activism, Culture, and American Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2001
Paul Lauter, an icon of American Studies who has been a primary agent in its transformation and its chief ambassador abroad, offers a wide-ranging collection of essays that demonstrate and reflect on this important and often highly politicized discipline. While American Studies was formerly seen as...
Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between the Wars
A New Pandora's Box
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002
During and after the Harlem Renaissance, two intellectual forces --nationalism and Marxism--clashed and changed the future of African American writing. Current literary thinking says that writers with nationalist leanings wrote the most relevant fiction, poetry, and prose of the day. Nationalism,...
Transpacific Community
America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Cultural Network
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
In the turbulent years after World War I, a transpacific community of American and Chinese writers and artists emerged to forge new ideas regarding aesthetics, democracy, internationalism, and the political possibilities of art. Breaking with preconceived notions of an "exotic" East, the...
Along the Way
A Collection of Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
This book may be unpopular in some circles. The exposure of the truth usually is when it has been hidden or distorted (particularly by those who would profit most by its absence or continued distortion). Yet, are we not our brothers keeper? Are we not to assist or enlighten our kinsmen...our fellow...
James Baldwin
America and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
"This fine collection of essays represents an important contribution to the rediscovery of Baldwin's stature as essayist, novelist, black prophetic political voice, and witness to the Civil Rights era. The title provides an excellent thematic focus. He understood both the necessity, and the impossibility,...
Picturing Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau in American Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
As we approach the bicentennial, in 2017, of the birth of Henry David Thoreau, there is considerable debate and confusion as to what he may, or may not have, contributed to American life and culture. Almost every American has heard of Thoreau, but only a few are aware that he was deeply engaged with...
American Tantalus
Horizons, Happiness, and the Impossible Pursuits of US Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
American Tantalus argues that modern US fictions often grow preoccupied by tantalisation. This keyword might seem commonplace; thesauruses, certainly, often lump it in with tease and torment in their general inventories of desire. Such lists, however, mislead. Just as most US dictionaries have in...
American Theorists of the Novel
Henry James, Lionel Trilling and Wayne C. Booth
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
The American theorists: Henry James, Lionel Trilling and Wayne C. Booth have revolutionized our understanding of narrative and have each championed the novel as an art form. Concepts from their work have become part of the fabric of novel criticism today, influencing theorists, authors and readers...
The Color of Sex
Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2001
In The Color of Sex Mason Stokes offers new ways of thinking about whiteness by exploring its surprisingly ambivalent partnership with heterosexuality. Stokes examines a wide range of white-supremacist American texts written and produced between 1852 and 1915—literary romances, dime novels, religious...
Bamboo Among The Oaks
Contemporary Writing by Hmong Americans
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Of an estimated twelve million ethnic Hmong in the world, more than 160,000 live in the United States today, most of them refugees of the Vietnam War and the civil war in Laos. Their numbers make them one of the largest recent immigrant groups in our nation. Today, significant Hmong populations can...
In The Company Of Black Men
The African Influence on African American Culture in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
From the subaltern assemblies of the enslaved in colonial New York City to the benevolent New York African Society of the early national era to the formation of the African Blood Brotherhood in twentieth century Harlem, voluntary associations have been a fixture of African-American communities.
In...
Grassroots at the Gateway
Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
"This is a theoretically sophisticated and thoroughly documented historical case study of the movements for African American liberation in St. Louis. Through detailed analysis of black working class mobilization from the depression years to the advent of Black Power, award-winning historian Clarence...
Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop
Rethinking African American Foodways from Slavery to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
2017 Association for the Study of Food and Society Award, best edited collection.
The fifteen essays collected in Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop utilize a wide variety of methodological perspectives to explore African American food expressions from...