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Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Written in the shadow of the approaching millennium, American literature in the 1990s was beset by bleak announcements of the end of books, the end of postmodernism, and even the end of literature. Yet, as conservative critics marked the century's twilight hours by launching elegies for the conventional...
To Make a New Race
Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Jean Toomer's adamant stance against racism and his call for a raceless society were far more complex than the average reader of works from the Harlem Renaissance might believe. In To Make a New Race Jon Woodson explores the intense influence of Greek-born mystic G. I. Gurdjieff on the thinking of...
The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel
Bolano and After
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel provides an accessible introduction to an important World literature. While many of the authors covered-Aira, Bolaño, Castellanos Moya, Vásquez-are gaining an increasing readership in English and are frequently taught, there is sparse criticism in English...
by L. Cardon
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2012
Fictional depictions of intermarriage can illuminate perceptions of both 'ethnicity' and 'whiteness' at any given historical moment. Popular examples such as Lucy and Ricky in I Love Lucy (1951-1957), Joanna and John in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), Toula and Ian in My Big Fat Greek Wedding...
by Ed Pavlic, Dan Beachy-Quick
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013
Often the most recognized, even brutal, events in American history are assigned a bifurcated public narrative. We divide historical and cultural life into two camps, often segregated by a politicized, racially divided "Color Line." But how do we privately experience the most troubling features of American...
by Thomas Fahy, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Truman Capote—along with his most famous works In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany’s—continues to have a powerful hold over the American popular imagination. His glamorous lifestyle, which included hobnobbing with the rich and famous and frequenting the most elite nightclubs in Manhattan,...
Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition
The Invention of an Aesthetic
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014
Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition explores Toni Morrison's construction of alternative and oppositional narratives of history and places her work as central to the imagining and re-imagining of American and diasporic identities. Covering the Nobel Prize-winning...
American Voudou
Journey into a Hidden World
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1999
Voudou (an older spelling of voodoo)a pantheistic belief system developed in West Africa and transported to the Americas during the diaspora of the slave tradeis the generic term for a number of similar African religions which mutated in the Americas, including santeria, candomble, macumbe, obeah,...
On Native Grounds
An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
“With On Native Grounds [Kazin] takes his place in the first rank of American practitioners of the higher literary criticism” (The New York Times).
An important historian of American literature, Alfred Kazin delivers an exhaustive—yet accessible—analysis of modernist fiction from the tail...
American Indian Literature and the Southwest
Contexts and Dispositions
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Culture-to-culture encounters between "natives" and "aliens" have gone on for centuries in the American Southwest—among American Indian tribes, between American Indians and Euro-Americans, and even, according to some, between humans and extraterrestrials at Roswell, New Mexico. Drawing on a wide range...
Industry and the Creative Mind
The Eccentric Writer in American Literature and Entertainment, 1790-1860
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Industry and the Creative Mind takes a radically new look at the figure of the eccentric, alienated writer in American literature and entertainment from 1790 to 1860. Traditional scholarship takes for granted that the eccentric writer, modeled by such Romantic beings as Lord Byron and brought to life...
The Fabrication of American Literature
Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Literary histories typically celebrate the antebellum period as marking the triumphant emergence of American literature. But the period's readers and writers tell a different story: they derided literature as a fraud, an imposture, and a humbug, and they likened it to inflated currency, land bubbles,...
Conjugal Union
The Body, the House, and the Black American
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 1999
In Conjugal Union, Robert F. Reid-Pharr argues that during the antebellum period a community of free black northeastern intellectuals sought to establish the stability of a Black American subjectivity by figuring the black body as the necessary antecedent to any intelligible Black American public...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
In the aftermath of World War II, the United States emerged as the dominant imperial power, and in US popular memory, the Second World War is remembered more vividly than the American Revolution. American Literature in Transition, 1940–1950 provides crucial contexts for interpreting the literature...