American category: 24906 books
The Southwest in American Literature and Art
The Rise of a Desert Aesthetic
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Is there a way to appreciate the desert without destroying it, a way to enjoy it without consuming it and to love it without killing it? Moreover, how can literature about the southwestern landscape affect ways in which it is either exploited or preserved? When and how did the desert change dramatically...
Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature
A Vernacular Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Relating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Houston A. Baker, Jr., offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its "vernacular" level. He shows how the "blues voice" and its economic undertones are both central to the American narrative and characteristic of the Afro-American way of telling it.
by Scott Reynolds Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The ballad "John Henry" is the most recorded folk song in American history and John Henry--the mighty railroad man who could blast through rock faster than a steam drill--is a towering figure in our culture. But for over a century, no one knew who the original John Henry was--or even if there was a real...
Cold War Modernists
Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
European intellectuals of the 1950s dismissed American culture as nothing more than cowboy movies and the A-bomb. In response, American cultural diplomats tried to show that the United States had something to offer beyond military might and commercial exploitation. Through literary magazines, traveling...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2004
African American Lives offers up-to-date, authoritative biographies of some 600 noteworthy African Americans. These 1,000-3,000 word biographies, selected from over five thousand entries in the forthcoming eight-volume African American National Biography, illuminate African-American history through...
by Tim Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Syndicated cartoonist and illustrator Tim Jackson offers an unprecedented look at the rich yet largely untold story of African American cartoon artists. This book provides a historical record of the men and women who created seventy-plus comic strips, many editorial cartoons, and illustrations for...
The Native American Experience
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, The Fetterman Massacre, and Creek Mary's Blood
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Three powerful tales from the acclaimed chronicler of the American West—including the #1 New York Times bestseller, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
Two profoundly moving, candid histories and a powerful novel illuminate important aspects of the Native American story.
Bury My Heart at...
The African American Roots of Modernism
From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
The period between 1880 and 1918, at the end of which Jim Crow was firmly established and the Great Migration of African Americans was well under way, was not the nadir for black culture, James Smethurst reveals, but instead a time of profound response from African American intellectuals. The African...
How the West Was Drawn
Mapping, Indians, and the Construction of the Trans-Mississippi West
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
How the West Was Drawn explores the geographic and historical experiences of the Pawnees, the Iowas, and the Lakotas during the European and American contest for imperial control of the Great Plains during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. David Bernstein argues that the American West was a...
The Other Blacklist
The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Mary Helen Washington recovers the vital role of 1950s leftist politics in the works and lives of modern African American writers and artists. While most histories of McCarthyism focus on the devastation of the blacklist and the intersection of leftist politics and American culture, few include the...
Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement
Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Dennis Banks, an American Indian of the Ojibwa Tribe and a founder of the American Indian Movement, is one of the most influential Indian leaders of our time. In Ojibwa Warrior, written with acclaimed writer and photographer Richard Erdoes, Banks tells his own story for the first time and also traces...
The State of North Carolina with Native American Ancestry
The Formation of the Eastern and Coastal Counties in North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
More than 50,000 Indians lived in the area now known as North Carolina at the time of Christopher Columbuss arrival in the New World. The Formation North Carolina Coastal and Eastern Counties examines the history of this Native American Indian population. It also focuses upon the formation of North...
American Literature in Context
1830-1865
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
First published between 1982 and 1983, this series examines the peculiarly American cultural context out of which the nation’s literature has developed. Covering the years from 1830 to 1865, this second volume of American Literature in Context examines twelve major American writers of the three...
by Drewey Wayne Gunn
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
American and British Writers in Mexico is the study that laid the foundation upon which subsequent examinations of Mexico's impact upon American and British letters have built. Chosen by the Mexican government to be placed, in translation, in its public libraries, the book was also referenced by Nobel...