American category: 24906 books
The Gaucho Genre
A Treatise on the Motherland
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2002
Hailed when first published in Spanish in 1988 as one of the best contemporary examples of Latin American critical thought, Josefina Ludmer’s El género gauchesco describes the emergence of gaucho poetry—which uses the voice of the cowboy of the Argentine pampas for political purposes—as an...
Perfecting Friendship
Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
Contemporary notions of friendship regularly place it in the private sphere, associated with feminized forms of sympathy and affection. As Ivy Schweitzer explains, however, this perception leads to a misunderstanding of American history. In an exploration of early American literature and culture,...
by G.W. Mullins, C.L. Hause
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
For many hundreds of years, people wandered into the great northwest. They came from all directions across Canada and the United States. These early people were clever builders, engineers, and weavers. They loved games of skill. They created stories, songs and poetry. Although they spoke many different...
by G.W. Mullins
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Before the time of books, computers, tablets and recording devices, the history of many cultures was passed down, from person to person, by word of mouth. The rich histories of so many people were told in songs, chants, poems and stories. This was and still is the way of Native American tribes. Each...
by Timothy Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
The Gothic and the Carnivalesque in American Culture offers a new account of the American Gothic. Gothic studies, the field that explores horrid and frightful narratives, usually describes the genre as exploring genuine historical fears, crises and traumas, yet this does not account for the ways in...
American Hybrid Poetics
Gender, Mass Culture, and Form
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
* American Hybrid Poetics* explores the ways in which hybrid poetics—a playful mixing of disparate formal and aesthetic strategies—have been the driving force in the work of a historically and culturally diverse group of women poets who are part of a robust tradition in contesting the dominant...
Les Sauvages Américains
Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Algonquian and Iroquois natives of the American Northeast were described in great detail by colonial explorers who ventured into the region in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Beginning with the writings of John Smith and Samuel de Champlain, Gordon Sayre analyzes French and English accounts...
James Fenimore Cooper
The Later Years
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
A definitive new biography of James Fenimore Cooper, early nineteenth century master of American popular fiction American author James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) has been credited with inventing and popularizing a wide variety of genre fiction, including the Western, the spy novel, the high seas adventure...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
Race matters in both national and international politics. Starting from this perspective, African American Perspectives on Political Science presents original essays from leading African American political scientists. Collectively, they evaluate the discipline, its subfields, the quality of race-related...
Wrestling with the Muse
Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2004
And as I groped in darkness
and felt the pain of millions,
gradually, like day driving night across the continent,
I saw dawn upon them like the sun a vision.
—Dudley Randall, from "Roses and Revolutions"
In 1963, the African American poet Dudley Randall...
Time, Tense, and American Literature
When Is Now?
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
In Time, Tense, and American Literature, Cindy Weinstein examines canonical American authors who employ a range of tenses to tell a story that has already taken place. This book argues that key texts in the archive of American literature are inconsistent in their retrospective status, ricocheting...
Toma y Daca
Transculturación Y Presencia de Escritores Chino-Latinoamericanos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 15, 2016
In the mid-1800s, tens of thousands of Chinese workers migrated to Cuba, Peru, Mexico, and Panama in search of a better life. As they and their descendants assimilated into their new host countries, they contributed significantly to the economies of these countries through their work in agriculture,...
Raising Girls in Bohemia: Meditations of an American Father
A Memoir in Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
A provocative collection of personal and political essays by an American writer, Raising Girls in Bohemia chronicles the life of a father raising three perfectly bilingual, culturally bifurcated, Czech-American daughters. While tracing what fatherhood has taught him about the world, Katrovas delves into...
Deconstructing Paradise
Inverted Religious Symbolism in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Deconstructing Paradise investigates Christian symbols that appear in Latin American Literature in an inverted way. The texts under investigation invert the Christian center to generate a social, political, cultural, or even artistic commentary. In doing so, each text underscores a search for meaning...