American category: 24906 books
The Untimely Present
Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 1999
The Untimely Present examines the fiction produced in the aftermath of the recent Latin American dictatorships, particularly those in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. Idelber Avelar argues that through their legacy of social trauma and obliteration of history, these military regimes gave rise to unique...
Literary Research and American Postmodernism
Strategies and Sources
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Literary Research and American Postmodernism is a guide to scholarly research in the field of American postmodern literature, which this volume defines as the period between 1950 and 1990. This work aims to provide advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars of literature with...
Black Muslims and the Law
Civil Liberties from Elijah Muhammad to Muhammad Ali
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Black Muslims and the Law: Civil Liberties From Elijah Muhammad to Muhammad Ali examines the Nation of Islam’s quest for civil liberties as what might arguably be called the inaugural and first sustained challenge to the suppression of religious freedom in African American legal history. Borrowing...
American Road Narratives
Reimagining Mobility in Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
The freedom to go anywhere and become anyone has profoundly shaped our national psyche. Transforming our sense of place and identity--whether in terms of social and economic status, or race and ethnicity, or gender and sexuality—American mobility is perhaps nowhere more vividly captured than in...
An Uncommon Faith
A Pragmatic Approach to the Study of African American Religion
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
With An Uncommon Faith Eddie S. Glaude Jr. makes explicit his pragmatic approach to the study of African American religion. He insists that scholars take seriously what he calls black religious attitudes, that is, enduring and deep-seated dispositions tied to a transformative ideal that compel individuals...
American Fiction in Transition
Observer-Hero Narrative, the 1990s, and Postmodernism
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
American Fiction in Transition is a study of the observer-hero narrative, a highly significant but critically neglected genre of the American novel. Through the lens of this transitional genre, the book explores the 1990s in relation to debates about the end of postmodernism, and connects the decade...
The Epic Trickster in American Literature
From Sunjata to So(u)l
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Just as Africa and the West have traditionally fit into binaries of Darkness/Enlightenment, Savage/Modern, Ugly/Beautiful, and Ritual/Art, among others, much of Western cultural production rests upon the archetypal binary of Trickster/Epic, with trickster aesthetics and commensurate cultural forms...
Playing the Races
Ethnic Caricature and American Literary Realism
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2004
Why did so many of the writers who aligned themselves with the social and aesthetic aims of American literary realism rely on stock conventions of ethnic caricature in their treatment of immigrant and African-American figures? As a self-described "tool of the democratic spirit," designed to "prick...
Black, White, and Huckleberry Finn
Re-imagining the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
This consequential book takes a hard, systematic look at the depiction of blacks, whites, and race relations in Mark Twain's classic novel, raising questions about its canonical status in American literature.
Huckleberry Finn, one of the most widely taught novels in American literature, has...
by Brian Hosmer, Frederick E. Hoxie, Ken Hechler
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Harry S. Truman oversaw the beginning of a dramatic shift in the relationship between the U.S. government and Native Americans. Not generally associated with Native Americans or Native American affairs, Truman’s presidency marked the end of the Indian New Deal begun under the Roosevelt administration...
Ties That Bind
The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
This beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. In the late 1790s, Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, acquired an African slave named Doll. Over the next thirty years, Shoe Boots and Doll lived together...
Black Rage in New Orleans
Police Brutality and African American Activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
In Black Rage in New Orleans, Leonard N. Moore traces the shocking history of police corruption in the Crescent City from World War II to Hurricane Katrina and the concurrent rise of a large and energized black opposition to it. In New Orleans, crime, drug abuse, and murder were commonplace, and an...
Across Meridians
History and Figuration in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Transnational Novels
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Over the course of the last two decades, novelist Karen Tei Yamashita has reshaped the Asian American literary imagination in profound ways. In Across Meridians, Jinqi Ling offers readers the most critically engaged examination to date of Yamashita's literary corpus. Crafted at the intersection of...
Contemporary African American Families
Achievements, Challenges, and Empowerment Strategies in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
For decades the black community has been perceived, both in the United States and around the world, as one which thinks alike, acts alike and lives alike - in poor and downtrodden environments. Following the persistent effects of the great recession and the American elections of 2008, now more than...