American category: 24906 books
Forgotten Allies
The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
Combining compelling narrative and grand historical sweep, Forgotten Allies offers a vivid account of the Oneida Indians, forgotten heroes of the American Revolution who risked their homeland, their culture, and their lives to join in a war that gave birth to a new nation at the expense of their own....
Culture and Redemption
Religion, the Secular, and American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Many Americans wish to believe that the United States, founded in religious tolerance, has gradually and naturally established a secular public sphere that is equally tolerant of all religions--or none. Culture and Redemption suggests otherwise. Tracy Fessenden contends that the uneven separation...
The Democratic Surround
Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
We commonly think of the psychedelic sixties as an explosion of creative energy and freedom that arose in direct revolt against the social restraint and authoritarian hierarchy of the early Cold War years. Yet, as Fred Turner reveals in The Democratic Surround, the decades that brought us the Korean...
by Naomi Lindstrom
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Spanish American fiction became a world phenomenon in the twentieth century through multilanguage translations of such novels as Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman, Octavio Paz's Labyrinth of Solitude, and Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits....
Unstuck in Time
A Journey Through Kurt Vonnegut's Life and Novels
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
In Unstuck in Time, Gregory Sumner guides us, with insight and passion, through a biography of fifteen of Kurt Vonnegut’s best known works, his fourteen novels starting with Player Piano (1952) all the way to an epilogue on his last book, A Man Without a Country (2005), to illustrate the quintessential...
Devils and Rebels
The Making of Hawthorne's Damned Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
"An outstanding combination of literary interpretation and cultural and historical context that will be an important addition to the critical literature on Hawthorne."
---Nina Baym, University of Illinois
"It is difficult to imagine a more timely book than Devils and Rebels....
by Nathan Irvin Huggins
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
This classic work of scholarship and empathy tells the story of the self-creation of the African-American people. It assesses the full impact of the Middle Passage -- "the most traumatizing mass human migration in modern history" -- and of North American slavery both on the enslaved and...
by Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh, Zoe Trodd, Donna Kornhaber
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Though he was a recipient of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature, American novelist John Steinbeck (1902--1968) has frequently been censored. Even in the twenty-first century, nearly ninety years after his work first appeared in print, Steinbeck's novels, stories, and plays...
My Mark Twain
From 'Literary Friends and Acquaintances'
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885...
by G.W. Mullins, C.L. Hause
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Native Americans use storytelling to get to know one another, as well as, passing history and messages on to newer generations. These stories are a heritage, but they will be known only as long as they are told. When someone ceases to tell a story, part of our cultural knowledge is gone.
The...
New World Irish
Notes on One Hundred Years of Lives and Letters in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
The book concerns the new World Irish, tracing the developing profile of the Irish in America from the Famine forward. The studies draw their material from roughly a one-hundred-year arc of Irish presence and relevance in American life and they would serve as American as well as Irish-American studies.
Authentic Blackness
The Folk in the New Negro Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 1999
What constitutes “blackness” in American culture? And who gets to define whether or not someone is truly African American? Is a struggling hip-hop artist more “authentic” than a conservative Supreme Court justice? In Authentic Blackness J. Martin Favor looks to the New Negro Movement—also...
Wrestling with the Left
The Making of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
In Wrestling with the Left, Barbara Foley presents a penetrating analysis of the creation of Invisible Man. In the process she sheds new light not only on Ralph Ellison’s celebrated novel but also on his early radicalism and the relationship between African American writers and the left during the...
Black Atlas
Geography and Flow in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Black Atlas presents definitive new approaches to black geography. It focuses attention on the dynamic relationship between place and African American literature during the long nineteenth century, a volatile epoch of national expansion that gave rise to the Civil War, Reconstruction, pan-Americanism,...