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American Holocaust : The Conquest of the New World
The Conquest of the New World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1992
For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience. Science fiction in America has long served to reflect the country's hopes, desires, ambitions, and fears. The...
by Peter Augustine Lawler, Brian A. Smith, Ralph C. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
In 1962, Walker Percy (1916--1990) made a dramatic entrance onto the American literary scene when he won the National Book Award for fiction with his first novel, The Moviegoer. A physician, philosopher, and devout Catholic, Percy dedicated his life to understanding the mixed and somewhat contradictory...
by PERCY H. BOYNTON
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2014
The general purpose in the preparation of this book has been to eliminate negligible detail and to subordinate or omit authors of minor importance in order to stress the men and the movements that are most significant in American intellectual history. The book has therefore been written with a view...
by Vincent B. Leitch
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
American Literary Criticism Since the 1930s fully updates Vincent B. Leitch’s classic book, American Literary Criticism from the 30s to the 80s following the development of the American academy right up to the present day.
Updated throughout and with a brand new chapter, this second edition:
provides...
The New Diaspora
The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
The Edward Lewis Wallant Award was founded by the family of Dr. Irving and Fran Waltman in 1963 and is supported by the University of Hartford’s Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies. It is given annually to an American writer, preferably early in his or her career, whose fiction is considered...
by G.W. Mullins, C.L. Hause
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
For many hundreds of years, people wandered into the great northwest. They came from all directions across Canada and the United States. These early people were not only skilled farmers, they were also clever builders, engineers, and weavers. They loved games of skill. They created stories, songs...
F.B. Eyes
How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2015
Few institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover's white-bread Federal Bureau of Investigation. But behind the scenes the FBI's hostility to black protest was energized by fear of and respect for black writing. Drawing on nearly 14,000 pages of newly released...
Writing Visions of Hope
Teaching TwentiethCentury American Literature and Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
This ninechapter book narrates a writingcentered approach to the teaching of literature and literary research. As the title suggests, the book also embraces a thematic approach to reading and writing about twentiethcentury American literature, focusing on the grounds for hope in an age of despair....
Lost and Found in Translation
Contemporary Ethnic American Writing and the Politics of Language Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
Starting with Salman Rushdie's assertion that even though something is always lost in translation, something can always be gained, Martha Cutter examines the trope of translation in twenty English-language novels and autobiographies by contemporary ethnic American writers. She argues that these works...
Within the Circle
An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 1994
Within the Circle is the first anthology to present the entire spectrum of twentieth-century African American literary and cultural criticism. It begins with the Harlem Renaissance, continues through civil rights, the Black Arts Movement, and on into contemporary debates of poststructuralist and black...
Indian Nation
Native American Literature and Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1997
Indian Nation documents the contributions of Native Americans to the notion of American nationhood and to concepts of American identity at a crucial, defining time in U.S. history. Departing from previous scholarship, Cheryl Walker turns the "usual" questions on their heads, asking not how...
by Alfred Kazin
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
An American Procession is a study, on the largest scale, of the major American writers at work during the historically and literarily crucial century that began in the early 1830s, when Ralph Waldo Emerson founded a national literature on the basis of a metaphysical revolution, and ended on the eve...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
This History offers an unparalleled examination of all aspects of Jewish American literature. Jewish writing has played a central role in the formation of the national literature of the United States, from the Hebraic sources of the Puritan imagination to narratives of immigration and acculturation....