Race in American Literature and Culture, Hardback - ***

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

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

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

Literature Into Film Film Into Literature. Case Studies in American Literature and Film - Ileana Jitareu Chiru

Zara Dinnen analyzes a range of contemporary novels, films, and artworks to contend that we live in the condition of the "digital banal, " not noti...

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

This collection explores the Black body in the context of transhuman realities from a variety of literary and artistic perspectives. Contributing t...

Publisher: Ohio State University PressAuthor(s): Keridiana W ChezNumber of pages: 212Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 236 x 158 x 20Cover type: Ha...

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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. Din cuprins: Dramatic Elements and Literary MeditationEmerson and KantInward versus Outward ExpansionDissenting Voices of ConsentThe Narrator as Au...

In this bold new study of twentieth-century American writing and poetics, Natalia Cecire argues that experimental writing should be understood as a...

Analysing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, the author argues that the emerging understa...

Focuses on three seminal works in the history of American culture: the first full-length narrative film, D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation; th...

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

This book offers a broad overview of American environmental literature and criticism. Demonstrating links between ecocriticism and fields such as B...

This volume offers a rigorous yet accessible overview of the key questions and intersectional approaches pertaining to American literature and the ...

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

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

Reducere. A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society America's great promise of equality has always rung...

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

American ideas about race owe much to the notion of an undifferentiated "heathen world" held together by its need of assistance. This religious not...

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

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

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Rebecca SanchezIllustration(s): 2 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 240Collection: Cultu...

This book explores the convergence of gender, race, and social identities in the often-exclusionary arena of American politics. Contributors examin...

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

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor Susan GillmanIllustration(s): 26 halftonesNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022...

This work throws new light on the nature and origins of ideas of racial difference. It reconstructs the evolution of the modern discourse of race a...

London celebrates the British capital, from its famous landmarks to atmospheric alleyways, from the top of the Shard to London Underground's lost g...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Natasha WarikooIllustration(s): 4 tablesNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: ...

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Today, race seems to be both everywhere and nowhere. There still exists a general abhorrence about discriminating between people according to their...

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This historical study shows how the peach emerged as a viable commodity precisely when the South was desperate for an improved reputation. The book...

Publisher: Harvard Business Review PressAuthor(s): James D. WhiteNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 242 x 25Cover type: Ha...

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

A beautifully illustrated, wide-ranging study of Huguenot craftsmanship and trading.Publisher: V & A PublishingAuthor(s): Tessa MurdochNumber of pa...

Reducere. Fantastic gift book of Greek recipes, with 117 photos of the Greek landscape, people, and cuisine. Well-known personalities share their favourite r...

The Book of Tea, written in English in 1906 for a Western audience, celebrates the secular art of the Japanese tea ceremony and linking its importa...

Gunslinging justice examines gun violence in Western films and literature alongside changes in justifiable homicide and gun rights in the United St...

The story behind Martin Luther King's historic, but largely forgotten visit to Newcastle upon Tyne, England in 1967, placing King's visit within an...

Now in an updated edition, this insightful book explores the ways U.S. movies, music, TV, fast food, sports, and even clothing styles have molded a...

Sweeps across dramatic and varied terrains - volcanoes and glaciers, billabongs and canyons, prairies and rain forests - to explore how humans have...

An incisive critique of the intersection of culture and video games by one of the sharpest games critics working today.Publisher: Prometheus BooksA...

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Reducere. This is the first volume in any language that collects Hannah Arendt's remarkable series of essays and notes on literary figures and cultural quest...

Reducere. Cedric J. Robinson offers a new understanding of race in America through his analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. He argues...