American category: 24906 books
Pictures and Progress
Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Pictures and Progress explores how, during the nineteenth century and the early twentieth, prominent African American intellectuals and activists understood photography's power to shape perceptions about race and employed the new medium in their quest for social and political justice. They sought...
Uncle Tom
From Martyr to Traitor
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Uncle Tom charts the dramatic cultural transformation of perhaps the most controversial literary character in American history. From his origins as the heroic, Christ-like protagonist of Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, the best-selling book of the nineteenth century after the Bible, Uncle...
A Grand Army of Black Men
Letters from African-American Soldiers in the Union Army 1861–1865
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 1992
The Civil War stands vivid in the collective memory of the American public. There has always been a profound interest in the subject, and specifically the participation of black Americans in and reactions to the war and the war's outcome. Almost 200,000 African-American soldiers fought for the Union...
Going Back to Gettysburg
Autobiography of a Corrupt Indian
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
The book Going back to Gettysburg will be bought like hot cakes in intellectual circles in both America and India because it is a light presentation of the uniqueness of the American Civil War (1861-1965) in which 6,00,000 American soldiers, mostly White, laid down their lives to secure the release...
by R. W. B. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
Intellectual history is viewed in this book as a series of "great conversations"—dramatic dialogues in which a culture's spokesmen wrestle with the leading questions of their times. In nineteenth-century America the great argument centered about De Crèvecoeur's "new man," the...
by Paul Gilroy, Bernard Boxill, Margaret Kohn
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Frederick Douglass (1818--1895) was a prolific writer and public speaker whose impact on American literature and history has been long studied by historians and literary critics. Yet as political theorists have focused on the legacies of such notables as W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington,...
by Joy Porter
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Indian approaches to land and spirituality are neither simple nor monolithic, making them hard to grasp for outsiders. A fuller, more accurate understanding of these concepts enables comprehension of the unique ways land and spirit have interlinked Native American communities across centuries of civilization,...
Stanley Cavell, Literature, and Film
The Idea of America
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
This is the first book to offer a thorough examination of the relationship that Stanley Cavell’s celebrated philosophical work has to the ways in which the United States has been imagined and articulated in its literature. Establishing the contours of Cavell’s most significant readings of American...
Ariel's Ecology
Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
What happens if we abandon the assumption that a person is a discrete, world-making agent who acts on and creates place? This, Monique Allewaert contends, is precisely what occurred on eighteenth-century American plantations, where labor practices and ecological particularities threatened the literal...
by Kathy-Ann Tan
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Literature has always played a central role in creating and disseminating culturally specific notions of citizenship, nationhood, and belonging. In Reconfiguring Citizenship and National Identity in the North American Literary Imagination, author Kathy-Ann Tan investigates metaphors, configurations,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2007
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is one of the most widely studied of contemporary American authors. Her novels, particularly Beloved, have had a dramatic impact on the American canon and attracted considerable critical commentary. This 2007 Companion introduces and examines her oeuvre as a whole, the...
Reading Rape
The Rhetoric of Sexual Violence in American Literature and Culture, 1790-1990
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Reading Rape examines how American culture talks about sexual violence and explains why, in the latter twentieth century, rape achieved such significance as a trope of power relations.
Through attentive readings of a wide range of literary and cultural representations of sexual assault--from...
Fables of Representation
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
From the acclaimed author of Winter (Mirror) and Rehearsal in Black, Fables of Representation is a powerful collection of essays on the state of contemporary poetry, free from the stultifying theoretical jargon of recent literary history.
With its title essay, "Fables of Representation,"...
by Michael W. Clune
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2009
The years after World War Two have seen a widespread fascination with the free market. In this book, Michael W. Clune considers this fascination in postwar literature. In the fictional worlds created by works ranging from Frank O'Hara's poetry to nineties gangster rap, the market is transformed, offering...