American category: 24906 books
Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation
American Literature and Culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Fables of American history embodied in Gilded Age literature
In this study of Gilded Age literature and culture, Ben Railton proposes that in the years after Reconstruction, America’s identity was often contested through distinct and competing conceptions of the nation’s history. He argues...
Dancing on the Color Line
African American Tricksters in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
The extensive influence of the creative traditions derived from slave culture, particularly black folklore, in the work of nineteenth- and twentieth-century black authors, such as Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison, has become a hallmark of African American scholarship. Yet similar inquiries regarding...
Desegregating Desire
Race and Sexuality in Cold War American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
A study of race and sexuality and their interdependencies in American literature from 1945 to 1955, Desegregating Desire examines the varied strategies used by eight American poets and novelists to integrate sexuality into their respective depictions of desegregated places and emergent identities...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
The first major twenty-first century history of four hundred years of black writing, The Cambridge History of African American Literature presents a comprehensive overview of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States. Expert contributors, drawn from...
Disintegrating the Musical
Black Performance and American Musical Film
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2002
From the earliest sound films to the present, American cinema has represented African Americans as decidedly musical. Disintegrating the Musical tracks and analyzes this history of musical representations of African Americans, from blacks and whites in blackface to black-cast musicals to jazz shorts,...
Antebellum American Women Writers and the Road
American Mobilities
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
A study of American women’s narratives of mobility and travel, this book examines how geographic movement opened up other movements or mobilities for antebellum women at a time of great national expansion. Concerned with issues of personal and national identity, the study demonstrates how women...
by Caroline Levander, Finnie Coleman, Hanna Wallinger
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Imperium in Imperio (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and newspaper editor from Texas, Sutton E. Griggs (1872–1933), would go on to publish four more novels; establish his...
by Renee Barlow, Chase Dimock, Timothy Golden
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Existentialist Thought in African American Literature Before 1940 is the first collection of its kind to break new ground in arguing that long before its classification by Jean-Paul Sartre, African American literature embodied existentialist thought. To make its case, this daring book dissects eight...
American Literature and the Destruction of Knowledge
Innovative Writing in the Age of Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In this challenging work, Ronald E. Martin analyzes the impulse of major nineteenth- and twentieth-century American writers to undermine not only their inherited paradigms of literary and linguistic thought but to question how paradigms themselves are constructed. Through analyses of these writers,...
Germans and African Americans
Two Centuries of Exchange
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Germans and African Americans, unlike other works on African Americans in Europe, examines the relationship between African Americans and one country, Germany, in great depth.Germans and African Americans encountered one another within the context of their national identities and group experiences....
A Spectacular Leap
Black Women Athletes in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
When high jumper Alice Coachman won the high jump title at the 1941 national championships with “a spectacular leap,” African American women had been participating in competitive sport for close to twenty-five years. Yet it would be another twenty years before they would experience something akin...
A Faithful Account of the Race
African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
The civil rights and black power movements expanded popular awareness of the history and culture of African Americans. But, as Stephen Hall observes, African American authors, intellectuals, ministers, and abolitionists had been writing the history of the black experience since the 1800s. With this...
The Omni-Americans
Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2020
Rediscover the "most important book on black-white relationships" in America in a special 50th anniversary edition introduced by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
"The United States is in actuality not a nation of black people and white people. It is a nation of multicolored people. . . . Any fool can...
Queen of Bebop
The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2017
Washington Post Best Book of 2017
Amazon Editors' Top 100 Pick of the Year
Amazon Best Humor and Entertainment Pick of the Year
Booklist Top Ten Arts Book
Queen of Bebop brilliantly chronicles the life of jazz singer Sarah Vaughan,...