American category: 24906 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature engages the multiple scenes of tension — historical, political, cultural, and aesthetic — that constitutes a problematic legacy in terms of community identity, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, language, and sovereignty in the study of Native...
Beautiful Enemies
Friendship and Postwar American Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2006
Although it has long been commonplace to imagine the archetypal American poet singing a solitary "Song of Myself," much of the most enduring American poetry has actually been preoccupied with the drama of friendship. In this lucid and absorbing study, Andrew Epstein argues that an obsession...
American Haiku
New Readings
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
American Haiku: New Readings explores the history and development of haiku by American writers, examining individual writers. In the late nineteenth century, Japanese poetry influenced through translation the French Symbolist poets, from whom British and American Imagist poets, Amy Lowell, Ezra Pound,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
A resource for all who teach and study history, this book illuminates the unmistakable centrality of American Indian history to the full sweep of American history. The nineteen essays gathered in this collaboratively produced volume, written by leading scholars in the field of Native American history,...
American Drama
In Dialogue, 1714-Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
An essential introductory textbook that guides students through three hundred years of American plays, as well as their remarkable engagement with texts from across the Atlantic. Divided into seven historical periods, Jacqueline Foertsch offers unique overviews of 38 American plays and their reception,...
by Luther Standing Bear
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2017
When it was first published in 1928, Luther Standing Bear's autobiographical account of his tribe and tribesmen was hailed by Van Wyck Brooks as “one of the most engaging and veracious we have ever had.” It remains a landmark in Indian literature, among the first books about Indians written from...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Includes pictures of Sitting Bull and important people and places in his life.Explains the Battle of the Little Bighorn and several Lakota oral legends.Includes a Table of Contents"When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where...
Deans and Truants
Race and Realism in African American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
For a work to be considered African American literature, does it need to focus on black characters or political themes? Must it represent these within a specific stylistic range? Or is it enough for the author to be identified as African American? In Deans and Truants, Gene Andrew Jarrett traces the...
Sites Unseen
Architecture, Race, and American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Sites Unseen examines the complex intertwining of race and architecture in nineteenth and early-twentieth century American culture, the period not only in which American architecture came of age professionally in the U.S. but also in which ideas about architecture became a prominent part of broader...
Native Moderns
American Indian Painting, 1940–1960
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2006
Between 1940 and 1960, many Native American artists made bold departures from what was considered the traditional style of Indian painting. They drew on European and other non-Native American aesthetic innovations to create hybrid works that complicated notions of identity, authenticity, and tradition....
Documents of Native American Political Development
1500s to 1933
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
The arrival of European and Euro-American colonizers in the Americas brought not only physical attacks against Native American tribes, but also further attacks against the sovereignty of these Indian nations. Though the violent tales of the Trail of Tears, Black Hawk's War, and the Battle of Little...
by G.W. Mullins, C.L. Hause
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Many people do not realize it, but Native American foods are rich in nutrition as well as heritage. Few people know that over fifty percent of the foods we enjoy today were used by the Indians centuries ago.
Native Americans were not only experts at hunting wild game, but they also were excellent...
Disaster on the Sandusky
The Life of Colonel William Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
In this first-ever biography, historian Robert Thompson tells the dramatic story of the life and death of William Crawford, a legendary figure from the violent world of the American colonial frontier, and a man recognized as a martyr by many Americans. Writing what has been described as a “compelling...
A Community of Inquiry
Conversations Between Classical American Philosophy and American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Explores the ways literature and philosophy enrich each other’s inquiry into the human condition
“I applaud the novel ways in which Dooley brings to life the interchanges between philosophy and literature in America during this period. Although numerous literary scholars have published...