American category: 24906 books
Plagiarama!
William Wells Brown and the Aesthetic of Attractions
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
William Wells Brown (1814–1884) was a vocal abolitionist, a frequent antagonist of Frederick Douglass, and the author of Clotel, the first known novel by an African American. He was also an extensive plagiarist, copying at least 87,000 words from close to 300 texts. In this critical study of Brown's...
Horses in the American West
Portrayals by Twenty-Four Artists
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Images of working cowhands and their horses loom large in the mind’s eye of many who love the American West. Those same images form the heart and soul of this lavishly illustrated book, which captures the viewpoints, values, and observations of twenty-four respected contemporary artists. The artists’...
Great Basin Indians
An Encyclopedic History
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
The Native American inhabitants of North America’s Great Basin have a long, eventful history and rich cultures. Great Basin Indians: An Encyclopedic History covers all aspects of their world. The book is organized in an encyclopedic format to allow full discussion of many diverse topics, including...
by Elaine Keillor, Timothy Archambault, John M. H. Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Encyclopedia of Native American Music of North America documents the surprisingly varied musical practices among North America's First Peoples, both historically and in the modern context. It supplies a detailed yet accessible and approachable overview of the substantial contributions and influence...
Downhome Gospel
African American Spiritual Activism in Wiregrass Country
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Jerrilyn McGregory explores sacred music and spiritual activism in a little-known region of the South, the Wiregrass Country of Georgia, Alabama, and North Florida. She examines African American sacred music outside of Sunday church-related activities, showing that singing conventions and anniversary...
On Humor
The Best from American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
From 1929 to the latest issue, American Literature has been the foremost journal expressing the findings of those who study our national literature. American Literature has published the best work of literary historians, critics, and bibliographers, ranging from the founders of discipline to the best...
by Jason Borge
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2008
This book analyzes the initial engagement with Hollywood by key Latin American writers and intellectuals during the first few decades of the 20th century. The film metropolis presented an ambiguous, multivalent sign for established figures like Horacio Quiroga, Alejo Carpentier and Mário de Andrade,...
The Body as Capital
Masculinities in Contemporary Latin American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Through economic liberalization and the untethering of labor and production markets, masculinity as hegemon has entered a crisis stage. Renegotiated labor and familial orders have triggered a widespread cultural renegotiation of how masculinity operates and is represented. This holds especially true...
Mining Memory
Reimagining Self and Nation through Narratives of Childhood in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Every major Peruvian author of the twentieth century has written a narrative focused on childhood or coming of age. Mining Memory argues that Peruvian narratives of the twentieth century re-imagine childhood not only to document personal pasts, but also to focus on national identity as a dynamic and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature is an essential resource for anyone interested in the development of women's writing in Latin America. Ambitious in scope, it explores women's literature from ancient indigenous cultures to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Organized...
Performing Women and Modern Literary Culture in Latin America
Intervening Acts
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Women have always been the muses who inspire the creativity of men, but how do women become the creators of art themselves? This was the challenge faced by Latin American women who aspired to write in the 1920s and 1930s. Though women's roles were opening up during this time, women writers were not...
Latin American Women Dramatists
Theater, Texts, and Theories
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 1999
The book highlights the many possibilities of the innovative work of these dramatists, and this will, it is to be hoped, help the editors to achieve one of their other key goals: productions of the plays in English." —Times Literary Supplement
This thoughtfully crafted book with its insightful...
Black Nationalism in the New World
Reading the African-American and West Indian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2002
From nineteenth-century black nationalist writer Martin Delany through the rise of Jim Crow, the 1937 riots in Trinidad, and the achievement of Independence in the West Indies, up to the present era of globalization, Black Nationalism in the New World explores the paths taken by black nationalism...
Native Land Talk
Indigenous and Arrivant Rights Theories
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Histories of rights have too often marginalized Native Americans and African Americans. Addressing this lacuna, Native Land Talk expands our understanding of freedom by examining rights theories that Indigenous and African-descended peoples articulated in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As...