American category: 24906 books
by Geoff Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
In The Life and Undeath of Autonomy in American Literature, Geoff Hamilton charts the evolution of the fundamental concept of autonomy in the American imaginary across the span of the nation’s literary history. Whereas America’s ideological roots are typically examined in relation to Enlightenment...
by Raymond Leslie Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Spanish American novels of the Boom period (1962-1967) attracted a world readership to Latin American literature, but Latin American writers had already been engaging in the modernist experiments of their North American and European counterparts since the turn of the twentieth century. Indeed, the desire...
Gregory Rabassa's Latin American Literature
A Translator's Visible Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
This book is a critical study of the work of Gregory Rabassa, translator of such canonical novels as Gabriel Garcìa Márquez's Cien años de soledad, José Lezama Lima's Paradiso, and Julio Cortàzar's Rayuela. During the past five decades, Rabassa has translated over fifty Latin American novels...
Afro Asia
Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African Americans and Asian Americans
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2008
With contributions from activists, artists, and scholars, Afro Asia is a groundbreaking collection of writing on the historical alliances, cultural connections, and shared political strategies linking African Americans and Asian Americans. Bringing together autobiography, poetry, scholarly criticism,...
Kin of Another Kind
Transracial Adoption in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
"The study of transracial adoption has long been dominated by historians, legal scholars, and social scientists, but with the growth of the lively field of humanistic adoption studies comes a growing understanding of the importance of cultural representations to the social meanings and even the...
American Literature in Context
1865-1900
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 1865 to 1900, this third volume of American Literature in Context focuses on the struggles of American writers to make...
Flavor and Soul
Italian America at Its African American Edge
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
In the United States, African American and Italian cultures have been intertwined for more than a hundred years. From as early as nineteenth-century African American opera star Thomas Bowers—“The Colored Mario”—all the way to hip-hop entrepreneur Puff Daddy dubbing himself “the Black Sinatra,”...
Pillars of Cloud and Fire
The Politics of Exodus in African American Biblical Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
At the birth of the United States, African Americans were excluded from the newly-formed Republic and its churches, which saw them as savage rather than citizen and as heathen rather than Christian. Denied civil access to the basic rights granted to others, African Americans have developed their own...
Epic in American Culture
Settlement to Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The epic calls to mind the famous works of ancient poets such as Homer, Virgil, and Ovid. These long, narrative poems, defined by valiant characters and heroic deeds, celebrate events of great importance in ancient times. In this thought-provoking study, Christopher N. Phillips shows in often surprising...
Native American and Chicano/a Literature of the American Southwest
Intersections of Indigenous Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This book studies Native American and Chicano/a writers of the American Southwest as a coherent cultural group with common features and distinct efforts to deal with and to resist the dominant Euro-American culture.
The Red Land to the South
American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
The forty years of American Indian literature taken up by James H. Cox—the decades between 1920 and 1960—have been called politically and intellectually moribund. On the contrary, Cox identifies a group of American Indian writers who share an interest in the revolutionary potential of the indigenous...
Back to the Blanket
Recovered Rhetorics and Literacies in American Indian Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
For thousands of years, American Indian cultures have recorded their truths in the narratives and metaphors of oral tradition. Stories, languages, and artifacts, such as glyphs and drawings, all carry Indigenous knowledge, directly contributing to American Indian rhetorical structures that have proven...
by Mary McCartin Wearn
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Returning to a foundational moment in the history of the American family, Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature explores how various authors of the period represented the maternal role – an office that came to a new, social prominence at the end of the eighteenth century....
Chronicles of a Two-Front War
Civil Rights and Vietnam in the African American Press
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
During the Vietnam War, young African Americans fought to protect the freedoms of Southeast Asians and died in disproportionate numbers compared to their white counterparts. Despite their sacrifices, black Americans were unable to secure equal rights at home, and because the importance of the war...