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Reducere. In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 New-England ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcAuthor(s): Maria (University of Sussex, UK) LauretNumber of pages: 344Collection: New Horizons in Contemporary ...

Reducere. The period of 1850-1865 consisted of violent struggle and crisis as the United States underwent the prodigious transition from slaveholding to oste...

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The collection explores the various, often conflicting representations of the war offered by US writers, artists, intellectuals, and political figu...

This volume provides the richest study available of African American literature during the years immediately following the Civil War. Studying auth...

Reducere. Asian American Literature in Transition Volume Three: 1965-1996 offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the political and aesthetic stakes of wha...

Reducere. This volume examines the concerns of Asian American literature from 1996 to the present. This period was not only marked by civil unrest, terror an...

Reducere. This volume is devoted to Asian American Literature between 1930 to 1965, a period of immense social, historical, and cultural transformations that...

Reducere. The years between 1850 and 1930 witnessed the first large-scale migration of peoples from East Asia and South Asia to North America and the emergen...

The volume is for scholars and researchers interested in African American and American literature and history. Chapters explore African American wr...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcAuthor(s): Dr Sarah E.L. (Queen's University Belfast, UK) BowskillNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dim...

War and American Literature examines representations of war throughout American literary history, providing a firm grounding in established critici...

This book is for students and instructors of American literature and culture. It features two dozen scholarly essays on different aspects of the th...

Reducere. In To Make Negro Literature Elizabeth McHenry traces African American authorship in the decade following the 1896 legalization of segregation. She ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Andrew BallNumber of pages: 272Collection: New Directions in Religion and LiteraturePublication date...

This compact encyclopedia, aimed at students, selects the most important authors, literary movements, and key topics for them to know. Entries cove...

DescriptionAmerican Literature in Transition, 1930-1940 gathers together in a single volume preeminent critics and historians to offer an authorita...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Henry Louis GatesEditor: Valerie SmithEditor: William L. AndrewsThe much-anticipated Third Edition brings together the work...

DescriptionWhat ever happened to the legend of El Dorado, the tale of the mythical city of gold lost in the Amazon jungle? Charlotte Rogers argues ...

This book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological and biogeographical concepts of disper...

This book explores how twentieth-century writers shaped the ways we listen in our multimedia present. A mix of American literary history, sound stu...

This book traces an unexpected journey to Latin America for South Asian literature in English. It shows how this encounter fundamentally shaped the...

Adam R. Ochonicky gives a critical overview of the Midwest's symbolic and often contradictory meanings in film and literature. Starting with the fr...

Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era argues that a new, post-postmodern aesthetic emerges in the 1990s as a group of American writ...

A new take on Latin American literature that analyzes secret police reports on writers and advances readings of their novels, short stories, and po...

This book offers a clear, substantive, and authoritative guide to transnationalism in American literature. Leading scholars provide a history of th...

This book identifies the forces behind the explosive growth in Asian American literature. It charts its emergence and explores both the unique plac...

Reducere. Since America's founding, the diversity of American writers has shaped its literature. Authors and poets of the past have created a colorful collec...

Reducere. Surveying the landscape of youth literature, this contributed volume shows how books have grown to include the wide range of our increasingly diver...

An incisive study of modern American literature, casting new light on its origins and themes.Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Cather...

DescriptionIn this edited collection, Gioia Woods and her contributors bring together histories, biographies, close readings, and theories about th...

Reducere. DescriptionBlack, White, and in Color offers a long-awaited collection of major essays by Hortense Spillers, one of the most influential and inspir...

Reducere. A multi-disciplinary exploration of how masculinity in the MENA region is constructed in film, literature, and nationalist discourse Constructions ...

In a polemic against the unexamined foundations and stagnant state of the field, Benjamin Schreier critically analyzes a series of professionally p...

After Kenneth W. Warren's What Was African American Literature?, Margo N. Crawford delivers What is African American Literature? The idea of Africa...

Drawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, Christopher Iannini connects two dramatic transformations in the eighteen...

DescriptionAlthough cross-cultural encounter is often considered an economic or political matter, beauty, taste, and artistry were central to cultu...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Norman W. (Ohio State University, USA) JonesNumber of pages: 170Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 152 x 2...

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Taking its cue from Perry Miller's 1956 classic of American literary criticism, The Raven and the Whale, Caroline Chamberlin Hellman examines ways ...

DescriptionLenora Warren tells a new story about the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mut...

From the Black Tuesday to the White House, from Plato to Robert Nozick, from Eugene Debs to Richard Nixon, from Peter Cornelis Plockhoy to the hipp...

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Analyses literary depictions of sexual policing of the colour line across multiple spaces with diverse colonial histories: Mississippi through Will...

Analyses literary constructions of locality from the early 1990s to the mid-2010s. Raynor reads work by Luiz Ruffato, Wilson Bueno, Roberto Bolano,...

This incisive study takes on one of the grimmest secrets in America's national life-the history of lynching and, more generally, the public punishm...

Reducere. Letras y Limpias is the first book to explore the literary significance of the figure of the curandera within Mexican American literature. Amanda E...

Reducere. How children and children's literature helped build America's empire America's empire was not made by adults alone. During the nineteenth and twent...

Reducere. DescriptionChanged Forever is the first study to gather a range of texts produced by Native Americans who, voluntarily or through compulsion, atten...

This book introduces readers to key developments in gender studies and American literary criticism, offers new readings of literary conventions and...

The Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature examines the defining role of plants in cultural expression across Latin America, particularly...

Reducere. American Literature (Excellence in Literature, English 3) cultivates competent readers and writers in a self-directed, classics-focused, one year, ...

A comprehensive, multicultural study of the influential and complex presence of race in American literature by top scholars in African American, La...

Reducere. During the early colonial encounter, children's books were among the first kinds of literature produced by US writers introducing the new colony, i...

Demonstrates that, similar to their white counterparts, African American authors - including Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison and Countee Cullen - have...

DescriptionAmerican Literature in the World is an innovative anthology offering a new way to understand the global forces that have shaped the maki...

Reducere. Provides a step-by-step guide to writing a literature review, and includes tips for modifying the process as needed depending on your audience, pur...

Reducere. Critical/biographical portraits of such notable figures as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Chesnut, ...

Reducere. In To Make Negro Literature Elizabeth McHenry traces African American authorship in the decade following the 1896 legalization of segregation. She ...

These problems-from the abortion debate to the scope of executive power-remain an indelible feature of American politics.Publisher: Johns Hopkins U...

Reducere. This anthology of drama, essays, fiction, and poetry presents a thoughtful, classroom-tested selection of the best literature for learning about th...

Argues that poverty has been denied its due as a critical and ideological framework in its own right, despite interest in representations of the lo...

Reducere. The encounter between European and native peoples in the Americas is often portrayed as a conflict between literate civilization and illiterate sav...

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In May 1906, the Atlantic Monthly commented that Americans live not merely in an age of things, but under the tyranny of them, and that in our rele...

Puzzle Me the Right Answer to that One offers the content of AP English classes. This book intends to serve as a guide and encouragement to educato...

This Companion covers American literary history from European colonization to the early republic. It provides a succinct introduction to the major ...