American category: 24906 books
Contemporary African American Literature
The Living Canon
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
In this volume, Lovalerie King and Shirley Moody-Turner have compiled a collection of essays that offer access to some of the most innovative contemporary black fiction while addressing important issues in current African American literary studies. Distinguished scholars Houston Baker, Trudier Harris,...
Rising Wind
Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
African Americans have a long history of active involvement and interest in international affairs, but their efforts have been largely ignored by scholars of American foreign policy. Gayle Plummer brings a new perspective to the study of twentieth-century American history with her analysis of black...
American Indian Sovereignty and Law
An Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
American Indian Sovereignty and Law: An Annotated Bibliography covers a wide variety of topics and includes sources dealing with federal Indian policy, federal and tribal courts, criminal justice, tribal governance, religious freedoms, economic development, and numerous sub-topics related to tribal...
Laura Cornelius Kellogg
Our Democracy and the American Indian and Other Works
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Laura Cornelius Kellogg was an eloquent and fierce voice in early twentieth century Native American affairs. An organizer, author, playwright, performer, and linguist, Kellogg worked tirelessly for Wisconsin Oneida cultural self-determination when efforts to Americanize Native people reached their...
Their Highest Potential
An African American School Community in the Segregated South
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
African American schools in the segregated South faced enormous obstacles in educating their students. But some of these schools succeeded in providing nurturing educational environments in spite of the injustices of segregation. Vanessa Siddle Walker tells the story of one such school in rural North...
The Modern Age
Turn-of-the-Century American Culture and the Invention of Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
The Modern Age examines the discourses that have come to characterize adolescence and argues that commonplace views of adolescents as impulsive, conflicted, and rebellious are constructions inspired by broader cultural anxieties that characterized American society in early-twentieth-century America.
The...
The Law of the Heart
Individualism and the Modern Self in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The Law of the Heart is a vigorous challenge to the prevailing concept of the “antidemocratic” image of the self in the American literary and cultural tradition. Sam B. Girgus counters this interpretation and attempts to develop a new understanding of democratic individualism and liberal humanism...
Reading the Wind
The Literature of the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 1986
The decade following the American defeat in Vietnam has been filled with doubts about American politics and values, confusion over the lessons of the war, and anger about the physical and psychological suffering that occurred during the war as well as thereafter. In the years since the U.S. withdrawal,...
The Popular Frontier
Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Transnational Mass Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
When William F. Cody introduced his Wild West exhibition to European audiences in 1887, the show soared to new heights of popularity and success. With its colorful portrayal of cowboys, Indians, and the taming of the North American frontier, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West popularized a myth of American...
The Gospel of Wealth in the American Novel (Routledge Revivals)
The Rhetoric of Dreiser and Some of His Contemporaries
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Business and the businessman have had a fundamental place in American society since the inception of the nation. This tenet, the ‘gospel of wealth’, is a central concern in the novels of Theodore Dreiser and his contemporaries. First published in 1987, this study sets this group of writers in...
by Katie Daily
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Rejection and Disaffiliation in Twenty-First Century American Immigration Narratives examines changing attitudes about national sovereignty and affiliation. Katie Daily delinks twenty-first century American immigration narratives from 9/11, examining genre alterations within a scope of literary analysis...
War Experience and Trauma in American Literature
A Study of American Military Memoirs of «Operation Iraqi Freedom»
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Walt Whitman wrote: «The real war will never get into the books.» To this day, however, American soldier-authors write about their war and translate traumatic experiences into language accessible to the reader. Veterans of the recent Iraq war do not differ here. Joining the post-draft American military,...
by Caroline F. Levander
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Where is American Literature? offers a spirited and compelling argument for rethinking the way we view American literature in relation to the nation while powerfully demonstrating why it continues to matter in a global age.
A refreshing and accessible investigation into the various locations...
by William C. Orchard
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Native American artists are among the most skilled practitioners of beadwork, and this classic study — based on the extensive collections in the Heye Foundation's Museum of the American Indian — offers a well-illustrated look at the extraordinary variety of beadwork methods and their spectacular...