American category: 24906 books
Reckoning Day
Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Too often lost in our understanding of the American Cold War crisis, with its nuclear brinkmanship and global political chess game, is the simultaneous crisis on the nation's racial front. Reckoning Day is the first book to examine the relationship of African Americans to the atom bomb in postwar...
Writing about Time
Essays on American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
This book brings together leading critics in American literature to address the representation of time throughout a wide range of genres, methodologies, and chronological periods. American literature, from its beginnings to the present, provides a particularly rich set of texts to examine in this...
by Ian C. Dawkins Moore
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
What would you do to save the one you love?
In AMERICAN CHARITY, a new novel by I.C. Moore; Charity, a young Ghanaian woman receives an ominously worded letter from her husband Conrad who left Ghana to follow his dream to attend school in America.
Conrad is soon sidetracked by the seduction...
Fugitives, Smugglers, and Thieves
Piracy and Personhood in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
In this book, Sharada Balachandran Orihuela examines property ownership and its connections to citizenship, race and slavery, and piracy as seen through the lens of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature. Balachandran Orihuela defines piracy expansively, from the familiar concept of...
African American Contributions to the Americas’ Cultures
A Critical Edition of Lectures by Alain Locke
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
This book is a critical edition of six lectures by Alain Leroy Locke, the intellectual progenitor of the Harlem Renaissance. In them, Locke offers an Inter-American philosophical account of important contributions made by Afrodescendant peoples to the art, literature, and culture of various American...
by Rachel Greenwald Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Rachel Greenwald Smith's Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism examines the relationship between American literature and politics in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Smith contends that the representation of emotions in contemporary fiction emphasizes the personal lives...
Curators and Culture
The Museum Movement in America, 1740-1870
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
This volume argues that a small, loosely connected group of men constituted an informal museum movement in America from about 1740 to 1870.
As they formed their pioneer museums, these men were guided not so much by European examples, but rather by the imperatives of the American democratic...
Journeys and Journals
Women's Mystery Writing and Migration in the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Using literary criticism, theory, and sociohistoric data, this book brings into conversation black migrations with mystery novels by African American women, novels which explore fully the psychic, economic, and spiritual impact of mass migratory movements. Diaspora travel has been forced and selected...
by Bryan Giemza
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
In this comprehensive study, Bryan Giemza retrieves a missing chapter of Irish Catholic heritage by canvassing the literature of American Irish writers from the U.S. South.
Beginning with the first Irish American novel, published in Winchester, Virginia, in 1817, Giemza investigates nineteenth-century...
Native Americans and Archaeologists
Stepping Stones to Common Ground
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 1997
Legal and economic factors have thrust American archaeology into a period of intellectual and methodological unrest. Issues such as reburial and repatriation, land and resource 'ownership,' and the integration of tradition and science have long divided archaeologists and Native American communities....
Inside the Eagle's Head
An American Indian College
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2010
The Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) is a selfdescribed National American Indian Community College in Albuquerque, New Mexico. SIPI is operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, an agency of the U.S. government that has overseen and managed the relationship between the government...
A New Continent of Liberty
Eunomia in Native American Literature from Occom to Erdrich
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Beginning with the writings of Samson Occom, and extending through a range of fiction and nonfiction works by William Apess, Sarah Winnemucca, Zitkala-Ša, N. Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor, and Louise Erdrich, Geoff Hamilton sketches a movement of gradual but resolute ascent in Native American literature....
by Edward Dorn
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
"Gunslinger is a fundamental American masterpiece."---Thomas McGuane
This fiftieth anniversary edition commemorates Edward Dorn’s masterpiece, Gunslinger, a comic, anti-epic critique of American capitalism that still resonates today. Set in the...
Hopi Runners
Crossing the Terrain between Indian and American
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
In the summer of 1912 Hopi runner Louis Tewanima won silver in the 10,000-meter race at the Stockholm Olympics. In that same year Tewanima and another champion Hopi runner, Philip Zeyouma, were soundly defeated by two Hopi elders in a race hosted by members of the tribe. Long before Hopis won trophy...