American category: 24906 books
by Ian McGuire
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Richard Ford and the Ends of Realism examines the work of award-winning American novelist and short story writer Richard Ford, and places it firmly in the context of contemporary debates about the role and meaning of literary realism in a postmodern environment. In this fresh study of Ford’s oeuvre,...
F. Scott Fitzgerald at Work
The Making of "The Great Gatsby"
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby occupies a preeminent place in American letters. Scholars have argued that Jay Gatsby is, in fact, the embodiment of American cultural and social aspiration. Though The Great Gatsby has been studied in detail since its publication, both readers and scholars...
The Works of James M. Whitfield
America and Other Writings by a Nineteenth-Century African American Poet
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In this comprehensive volume of the collected writings of James Monroe Whitfield (1822-71), Robert S. Levine and Ivy G. Wilson restore this African American poet, abolitionist, and intellectual to his rightful place in the arts and politics of the nineteenth-century United States.
Whitfield's...
A Fatherless Child
Autobiographical Perspectives of African American Men
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
The impact of absent fathers on sons in the black community has been a subject for cultural critics and sociologists who often deal in anonymous data. Yet many of those sons have themselves addressed the issue in autobiographical works that form the core of African American literature.
A...
Calypso Magnolia
The Crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
In this far-reaching literary history, John Wharton Lowe remakes the map of American culture by revealing the deep, persistent connections between the ideas and works produced by writers of the American South and the Caribbean. Lowe demonstrates that a tendency to separate literary canons by national...
Signs of the Signs
The Literary Lights of Incandescence and Neon
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
This book is a study of signs in American literature and culture. It is mainly about electric signs, but also deals with non-electric signs and related phenomena, such as movie sets. The 'sign' is considered in both the architectural and semiotic senses of the word. It is argued that the drama and...
Race, Rights, and Recognition
Jewish American Literature since 1969
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Race, Rights, and Recognition, Dean J. Franco explores the work of recent Jewish American writers, many of whom have taken unpopular stances on social issues, distancing themselves from the politics and public practice of multiculturalism. While these writers explore the same themes of group-based...
by June Howard, Donald E. Pease
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2001
In Publishing the Family June Howard turns a study of the collaborative novel The Whole Family into a lens through which to examine American literature and culture at the beginning of the twentieth century. Striving to do equal justice to historical particulars and the broad horizons of social change,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West presents a series of essays that explore the historic and contemporary cultural expressions rooted in America's western states.
Offers a comprehensive approach to the wide range of cultural expressions originating in the west
Focuses...
The Poetry of the Americas
From Good Neighbors to Countercultures
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The Poetry of the Americas offers a lively and detailed history of relations among poets in the US and Latin America, spanning three decades from the Good Neighbor diplomacy of World War II through the Cold War cultural policies of the late 1960s. Connecting works by Martín Adán, Elizabeth Bishop,...
by Charles W. Chesnutt
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an African American writer, essayist, Civil Rights activist, legal-stenography businessman, and lawyer whose novels and short stories explore race, racism, and the problematic contours of African Americans’ social and cultural identities in post-Civil War...
We Wear the Mask
Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Politics of Representative Reality
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
An anthology of the best scholarship on the celebrated African American writer
A prolific nineteenth-century author, Paul Laurence Dunbar was the first African American poet to gain national recognition. Praised by Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, and Frederick Douglass, who called him...
The Melancholy of Race
Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2000
In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne Anlin Cheng argues that we have to understand racial grief not only as the result of racism but also as a foundation for racial identity. The Melancholy of Race proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholic act--a social category...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
Originally published in 1993, this was the first volume of essays devoted to the works of Cormac McCarthy. Immediately it was recognized as a major contribution to studies of this acclaimed American author. American Literary Scholarship hailed it as "a model of its kind." It has since established...