American category: 24906 books
The Fiction of Junot Díaz
Reframing the Lens
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
The influence of Latin American writers—as well as other immigrant writers and their first-generation peers—has reframed the literary lens to include multiple views and codify the shift away from the tradition of white male writers who formed the core of the American literary canon for generations....
Aesthetic Materialism
Electricity and American Romanticism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism focuses on American romantic writers' attempts to theorize aesthetic experience through the language of electricity. In response to scientific and technological developments, most notably the telegraph, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century...
Collecting from the Margins
Material Culture in a Latin American Context
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
From the cabinets of wonderof the Renaissance to the souvenir collections of today, selecting, accumulating, and organizing objects are practices that are central to our notions of who we are and what we value. Collecting, both private and institutional, has been instrumental in the consolidation...
by Matthew Bush
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
From the era of the wars for independence onward, the emotionally heightened and ethically charged theatrics of melodrama have played a substantial role in the framing of Latin American fictional narrative. Over that same time period, melodramatic reasoning has influenced the critical models through...
In Search of the Sacred Book
Religion and the Contemporary Latin American Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
In Search of the Sacred Book studies the artistic incorporation of religious concepts such as prophecy, eternity, and the afterlife in the contemporary Latin American novel. It departs from sociopolitical readings by noting the continued relevance of religion in Latin American life and culture, despite...
by Cathy L. Jrade
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Modernismo arose in Spanish American literature as a confrontation with and a response to modernizing forces that were transforming Spanish American society in the later nineteenth century. In this book, Cathy L. Jrade undertakes a full exploration of the modernista project and shows how it provided...
New Trends in Contemporary Latin American Narrative
Post-National Literatures and the Canon
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Examining a rich new generation of Latin American writers, this collection offers new perspectives on the current status of Latin American literature in the age of globalization. Authors explored are from the Boom and Postboom periods, including those who combine social preoccupations, like drug trafficking, with aesthetic ones.
The Common Cause
Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
When the Revolutionary War began, the odds of a united, continental effort to resist the British seemed nearly impossible. Few on either side of the Atlantic expected thirteen colonies to stick together in a war against their cultural cousins. In this pathbreaking book, Robert Parkinson argues that...
The Roughest Riders
The Untold Story of the Black Soldiers in the Spanish-American War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The inspiring story of the first African American soldiers to serve during the postslavery era
Many have heard how Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders charged up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War. But often forgotten in the great swamp of history is that Roosevelt’s success was...
Native American Whalemen and the World
Indigenous Encounters and the Contingency of Race
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
In the nineteenth century, nearly all Native American men living along the southern New England coast made their living traveling the world's oceans on whaleships. Many were career whalemen, spending twenty years or more at sea. Their labor invigorated economically depressed reservations with vital...
Toward the Setting Sun
John Ross, the Cherokees, and the Trail of Tears
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
“Richly detailed and well-researched,” this story of one Native American chief’s resistance to American expansionism “unfolds like a political thriller” (Publishers Weekly).
Toward the Setting Sun chronicles one of the most significant but least explored periods in American history—the...
An American Betrayal
Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
The fierce battle over identity and patriotism within Cherokee culture that took place in the years surrounding the Trail of Tears
Though the tragedy of the Trail of Tears is widely recognized today, the pervasive effects of the tribe's uprooting have never been examined in detail. Despite...
by Clarence Lusane
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
The Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House as experienced by African Americans, from the generations of enslaved people who helped to build it or were forced to work there to its first black First Family, the Obamas.
Clarence...
Mr. Jefferson's Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy
William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2011
Often remembered as the president who died shortly after taking office, William Henry Harrison remains misunderstood by most Americans. Before becoming the ninth president of the United States in 1841, Harrison was instrumental in shaping the early years of westward expansion. Robert M. Owens now...