American category: 24906 books
Race, Theft, and Ethics
Property Matters in African American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
In Race, Theft, and Ethics, Lovalerie King examines African American literature's critique of American law concerning matters of property, paying particular attention to the stereotypical image of the black thief. She draws on two centuries of African American writing that reflects the manner in which...
Representing the Race
A New Political History of African American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
The political value of African American literature has long been a topic of great debate among American writers, both black and white, from Thomas Jefferson to Barack Obama. In his compelling new book, Representing the Race, Gene Andrew Jarrett traces the genealogy of this topic in order to develop...
Whispered Consolations
Law and Narrative in African American Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
African Americans have experienced life under the rule of law in quite different contexts from those of whites, and they have written about those differences in poems, songs, stories, autobiographies, novels, and memoirs. This book examines the tradition of American law as it appears in African American...
Native American Literature
Towards a Spatialized Reading
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Native American Literature underwent a Renaissance around 1968, and the current canon of novels written in the late twentieth century in American English by Native American or mixed-blood authors is diverse, exciting and flourishing. Despite this, very few such novels are accepted as part of the broader...
by William Giraldi
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
One of the most gifted literary essayists of his generation defends stylistic boldness and intellectual daring in American letters.
Over the last decade William Giraldi has established himself as a charismatic and uncompromising literary essayist, “a literature-besotted Midas of prose”...
by White Deer of Aautumn
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
The Native American Book of Life The Circle of Life is an American Indian symbol for the Four Directions. The four colors represent the four stages of life, from childhood to old age; the cycle of seasons, from spring to winter; and the four races of people. Each of the Four Directions symbolizes a certain...
by Brandi Denison
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Ute Land Religion in the American West, 1879–2009 is a narrative of American religion and how it intersected with land in the American West. Prior to 1881, Utes lived on the largest reservation in North America—twelve million acres of western Colorado. Brandi Denison takes a broad look at the...
Italian Signs, American Streets
The Evolution of Italian American Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In the first major critical reading of Italian American narrative literature in two decades, Fred L. Gardaphé presents an interpretive overview of Italian American literary history. Examining works from the turn of the twentieth century to the present, he develops a new perspective—variously historical,...
Becoming Cajun, Becoming American
The Acadian in American Literature from Longfellow to James Lee Burke
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
From antebellum times, Louisiana's unique multipartite society included a legal and social space for intermediary racial groups such as Acadians, Creoles, and Creoles of Color. In Becoming Cajun, Becoming American, Maria Hebert-Leiter explores how American writers have portrayed Acadian culture over...
Cities of Others
Reimagining Urban Spaces in Asian American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Asian American literature abounds with complex depictions of American cities as spaces that reinforce racial segregation and prevent interactions across boundaries of race, culture, class, and gender. However, in Cities of Others, Xiaojing Zhou uncovers a much different narrative, providing the most...
Navigating the Transnational in Modern American Literature and Culture
Axes of Influence
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This study develops the important work carried out on American literature through the frameworks of transnational, transatlantic, and trans-local studies to ask what happens when these same aspects become intrinsic to the critical narrative. Much cultural criticism since the 1990s has sought to displace...
Style and Status
Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2007
Between the 1920s and the 1970s, American economic culture began to emphasize the value of consumption over production. At the same time, the rise of new mass media such as radio and television facilitated the advertising and sales of consumer goods on an unprecedented scale. In Style and Status:...
Body Parts of Empire
Visual Abjection, Filipino Images, and the American Archive
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Body Parts of Empire is a study of abjection in American visual culture and popular literature from the Philippine-American War (1899–1902). During this period, the American national territory expanded beyond its continental borders to islands in the Pacific and the Caribbean. Simultaneously, new...
The Dictionary Wars
The American Fight over the English Language
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first definitive American dictionary of English
In The Dictionary Wars, Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival...