James J Donahue: 3 books

James Donahue shows how contemporary American male writers in the romance tradition engage with frontier mythology and expose its failure to deliver on its promises of cultural stability and political advancement, especially in the wake of the 1960s.

This book includes a collection of essays that explore the relationship between Disability Studies and literary ecocriticism, particularly as this relationship plays out in American literature and culture. The contributors to this collection operate from the premise that there is much to be gained...

Contemporary Native Fiction: Toward a Narrative Poetics of Survivance analyzes paradigmatic works of contemporary Native American/First Nations literary fiction using the tools of narrative theory. Each chapter is read through the lens of a narrative theory – structuralist narratology, feminist...