American category: 24906 books
Belabored Professions
Narratives of African American Working Womanhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
According to nineteenth-century racial uplift ideology, African American women served their race best as reformers and activists, or as "doers of the word." In Belabored Professions, Xiomara Santamarina examines the autobiographies of four women who diverged from that ideal and defended...
The Spanish American Crónica Modernista, Temporality and Material Culture
Modernismo's Unstoppable Presses
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
This study explores how Spanish American modernista writers incorporated journalistic formalities and industry models through the crónica genre to advance their literary preoccupations. Through a variety of modernista writers, including José Martí, Amado Nervo, Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera and Rubén...
by Aníbal González
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
The Latin American Literary Boom was marked by complex novels steeped in magical realism and questions of nationalism, often with themes of surreal violence. In recent years, however, those revolutionary projects of the sixties and seventies have given way to quite a different narrative vision and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
This collectionis the first to focus on the transgressive and transformative power of American female humorists. It explores the work of authors and comediennes such as Carolyn Wells, Lucille Clifton, Mary McCarthy, Lynne Tillman, Constance Rourke, Roz Chast, Amy Schumer and Samantha Bee, and the...
Tears of Rage
The Racial Interface of Modern American Fiction-Faulkner, Wright, Pynchon, Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
In this provocative study, Shelly Brivic presents the history of the twentieth-century American novel as a continuous narrative dialogue between white and black voices. Exploring four of the most renowned and challenging works written between 1930 and 1990 -- William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!,...
The Modernist Nation
Generation, Renaissance, and Twentieth-Century American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
The Modernist Nation examines why America's modern literary movements have come to be characterized as "generations" and "renaissances," such as the Lost Generation and the Beat Generation or the Harlem, Southern, and San Francisco Renaissances. The metaphor of rebirth, Michael...
The Pan American Imagination
Contested Visions of the Hemisphere in Twentieth-Century Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
In the history of the early twentieth-century Americas, visions of hemispheric unity flourished, and the notion of a transnational American identity was embraced by artists, intellectuals, and government institutions. In The Pan American Imagination, Stephen Park explores the work of several Pan American...
The Imaginary and Its Worlds
American Studies after the Transnational Turn
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
The Imaginary and Its Worlds collects essays that boldly rethink the imaginary as a key concept for cultural criticism. Addressing both the emergence and the reproduction of the social, the imaginary is ideally suited to chart the consequences of the transnational turn in American studies. Leading...
Wallace Stevens among Others
Diva-Dames, Deleuze, and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In Wallace Stevens among Others David Jarraway explores the extraordinary achievement of Wallace Stevens, but in contexts that are not usually thought about in connection with Stevens's work - gay literature, contemporary fiction, Hollywood film, and avant-garde architecture, among others. By viewing...
Reaping Something New
African American Transformations of Victorian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Tackling fraught but fascinating issues of cultural borrowing and appropriation, this groundbreaking book reveals that Victorian literature was put to use in African American literature and print culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in much more intricate, sustained, and imaginative...
International Adoption in North American Literature and Culture
Transnational, Transracial and Transcultural Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This book is about transnational and transracial adoption in North American culture. It asks: to what extent does the process of international adoption reflect imperious inequalities around the world; or can international adoption and the personal experiences of international adoptees today be seen...
by Richard Young, Odile Cisneros
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2010
The Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater provides users with an accessible single-volume reference tool covering Portuguese-speaking Brazil and the 16 Spanish-speaking countries of continental Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador,...
Art for a New Understanding
Native Voices, 1950s to Now
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Art for a New Understanding, an exhibition from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art that opened in October 2018, seeks to radically expand and reposition the narrative of American art since 1950 by charting a history of the development of contemporary Indigenous art from the United States and Canada,...
by Philip R. Yannella
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
This book situates American literature from the Great Depression to the present day in its historical context
Explores the issues that engaged American writers from 1929 to the present
Draws on a range of documents from magazine and newspaper accounts to government reports and important non-fiction
The...