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66 produkter
Loyal Subjects
Bonds of Nation, Race, and Allegiance in Nineteenth-Century America
Inbunden, 2010
1506 kr
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When one nation becomes two, or when two nations become one, what does national affiliation mean or require? Elizabeth Duquette answers this question by demonstrating how loyalty was used during the U.S. Civil War to define proper allegiance to the Union. For Northerners during the war, and …
Loyal Subjects
Bonds of Nation, Race, and Allegiance in Nineteenth-Century America
Häftad, 2010
400 kr
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When one nation becomes two, or when two nations become one, what does national affiliation mean or require? Elizabeth Duquette answers this question by demonstrating how loyalty was used during the U.S. Civil War to define proper allegiance to the Union. For Northerners during the war, and …
White Negress
Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary
Inbunden, 2011
1681 kr
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During the first half of the twentieth century, American Jews demonstrated a commitment to racial justice as well as an attraction to African American culture. Until now, the debate about whether such black-Jewish encounters thwarted or enabled Jews’ claims to white privilege has focused on men and …
White Negress
Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary
Häftad, 2010
447 kr
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During the first half of the twentieth century, American Jews demonstrated a commitment to racial justice as well as an attraction to African American culture. Until now, the debate about whether such black-Jewish encounters thwarted or enabled Jews’ claims to white privilege has focused on men and …
Playing Smart
New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture
Inbunden, 2010
754 kr
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Smart women, sophisticated ladies, savvy writers . . . Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Anita Loos, Lois Long, Jessie Fauset, Dawn Powell, Mary McCarthy, and others imagined New York as a place where they could claim professional status, define urban independence, and shrug off confining …
Writing the Ghetto
Class, Authorship, and the Asian American Ethnic Enclave
Inbunden, 2010
593 kr
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In the United States, perhaps no minority group is considered as "model" or successful as the Asian American community. Rather than living in ominous "ghettoes," Asian Americans are described as residing in positive-sounding "ethnic enclaves." Writing the Ghetto helps clarify the hidden or unspoken …
Writing the Ghetto
Class, Authorship, and the Asian American Ethnic Enclave
Häftad, 2011
389 kr
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In the United States, perhaps no minority group is considered as "model" or successful as the Asian American community. Rather than living in ominous "ghettoes," Asian Americans are described as residing in positive-sounding "ethnic enclaves." Writing the Ghetto helps clarify the hidden or unspoken …
Playing Smart
New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture
Häftad, 2011
439 kr
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Smart women, sophisticated ladies, savvy writers . . . Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Anita Loos, Lois Long, Jessie Fauset, Dawn Powell, Mary McCarthy, and others imagined New York as a place where they could claim professional status, define urban independence, and shrug off confining …
Troublemakers
Power, Representation, and the Fiction of the Mass Worker
Inbunden, 2011
1681 kr
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William Scott’s Troublemakers explores how a major change in the nature and forms of working-class power affected novels about U.S. industrial workers in the first half of the twentieth century. With the rise of mechanization and assembly-line labor from the 1890s to the 1930s, these laborers found …
Troublemakers
Power, Representation, and the Fiction of the Mass Worker
Häftad, 2011
447 kr
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William Scott’s Troublemakers explores how a major change in the nature and forms of working-class power affected novels about U.S. industrial workers in the first half of the twentieth century. With the rise of mechanization and assembly-line labor from the 1890s to the 1930s, these laborers found …
Main Street and Empire
The Fictional Small Town in the Age of Globalization
Av Ryan Poll
Häftad, 2012
447 kr
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The small town has become a national icon that circulates widely in literature, culture, and politics as an authentic American space and community. Yet there are surprisingly few critical studies that analyze the small town’s centrality to the United States’ identity and imagination.In Main Street …
Reading Embodied Citizenship
Disability, Narrative, and the Body Politic
Häftad, 2012
495 kr
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Liberal individualism, a foundational concept of American politics, assumes an essentially homogeneous population of independent citizens. When confronted with physical disability and the contradiction of seemingly unruly bodies, however, the public searches for a story that can make sense of the …
Romance of Race
Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1880-1930
Häftad, 2013
439 kr
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In the United States miscegenation is not merely a subject of literature and popular culture. It is in many ways the foundation of contemporary imaginary community. The Romance of Race examines the role of minority women writers and reformers in the creation of our modern American …
Romance of Race
Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1880-1930
Inbunden, 2013
1681 kr
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In the United States miscegenation is not merely a subject of literature and popular culture. It is in many ways the foundation of contemporary imaginary community. The Romance of Race examines the role of minority women writers and reformers in the creation of our modern American …
Unbecoming Americans
Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945-1960
Av Joseph Keith
Häftad, 2013
439 kr
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During the Cold War, Ellis Island no longer served as the largest port of entry for immigrants, but as a prison for holding aliens the state wished to deport. The government criminalized those it considered un-assimilable (from left-wing intellectuals and black radicals to racialized migrant …
When Sex Changed
Birth Control Politics and Literature Between the World Wars
Häftad, 2013
439 kr
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In When Sex Changed, Layne Parish Craig analyzes the ways literary texts responded to the political, economic, sexual, and social values put forward by the birth control movements of the 1910s to the 1930s in the United States and Great Britain. Discussion of contraception and related topics …
When Sex Changed
Birth Control Politics and Literature Between the World Wars
Inbunden, 2013
1681 kr
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In When Sex Changed, Layne Parish Craig analyzes the ways literary texts responded to the political, economic, sexual, and social values put forward by the birth control movements of the 1910s to the 1930s in the United States and Great Britain. Discussion of contraception and related topics …
Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism
Narrative Appropriation in American Literature
Häftad, 2013
466 kr
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Today’s critical establishment assumes that sentimentalism is an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary mode that all but disappeared by the twentieth century. In this book, Jennifer Williamson argues that sentimentalism is alive and well in the modern era. By examining working-class …
Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism
Narrative Appropriation in American Literature
Inbunden, 2013
1681 kr
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Today’s critical establishment assumes that sentimentalism is an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary mode that all but disappeared by the twentieth century. In this book, Jennifer Williamson argues that sentimentalism is alive and well in the modern era. By examining working-class …
American Hybrid Poetics
Gender, Mass Culture, and Form
Häftad, 2014
420 kr
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American Hybrid Poetics explores the ways in which hybrid poetics-a playful mixing of disparate formal and aesthetic strategies-have been the driving force in the work of a historically and culturally diverse group of women poets who are part of a robust tradition in contesting the dominant …
American Hybrid Poetics
Gender, Mass Culture, and Form
Inbunden, 2014
1681 kr
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American Hybrid Poetics explores the ways in which hybrid poetics-a playful mixing of disparate formal and aesthetic strategies-have been the driving force in the work of a historically and culturally diverse group of women poets who are part of a robust tradition in contesting the dominant …
Autobiography of Citizenship
Assimilation and Resistance in U.S. Education
Av Tova Cooper
Häftad, 2015
457 kr
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At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States was faced with a new and radically mixed population, one that included freed African Americans, former reservation Indians, and a burgeoning immigrant population. In The Autobiography of Citizenship, Tova Cooper looks at how educators tried to …
Autobiography of Citizenship
Assimilation and Resistance in U.S. Education
Av Tova Cooper
Inbunden, 2015
1421 kr
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At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States was faced with a new and radically mixed population, one that included freed African Americans, former reservation Indians, and a burgeoning immigrant population. In The Autobiography of Citizenship, Tova Cooper looks at how educators tried to …
Cotton's Queer Relations
Same-sex Intimacy and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936-1968
Inbunden, 2009
988 kr
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Finally breaking through heterosexual cliches of flirtatious belles and cavaliers, sinister black rapists and lusty 'Jezebels', ""Cotton's Queer Relations"" exposes the queer dynamics embedded in myths of the southern plantation. Focusing on works by Ernest J. Gaines, William Faulkner, Tennessee …
Cotton's Queer Relations
Same-sex Intimacy and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936-1968
Häftad, 2009
366 kr
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Finally breaking through heterosexual cliches of flirtatious belles and cavaliers, sinister black rapists and lusty 'Jezebels', ""Cotton's Queer Relations"" exposes the queer dynamics embedded in myths of the southern plantation. Focusing on works by Ernest J. Gaines, William Faulkner, Tennessee …
Traumatic Possessions
The Body and Memory in African American Women's Writing and Performance
Häftad, 2010
317 kr
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Studies of traumatic stress have explored the challenges to memory as a result of extreme experience, particularly in relation to the ways in which trauma resonates within the survivor's body and the difficulties survivors face when trying to incorporate their experience into meaningful narratives. …
On Endings
American Postmodern Fiction and the Cold War
Häftad, 2011
366 kr
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Examines how the core texts of American postmodernism are a response to the geopolitical dynamics of the Cold War and especially to the new potential for total nuclear conflict. Postwar American fiction needs to be rethought, Daniel Grausam argues, by highlighting postmodern experimentation as a …
Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke
At the Roots of the Racial Divide
Av Bryan Crable
Inbunden, 2011
731 kr
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Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke focuses on the little-known but important friendship between two canonical American writers. The story of this fifty-year friendship, however, is more than literary biography; Bryan Crable argues that the Burke-Ellison relationship can be interpreted as a microcosm …
Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke
At the Roots of the Racial Divide
Av Bryan Crable
Häftad, 2011
319 kr
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Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke focuses on the little-known but important friendship between two canonical American writers. The story of this fifty-year friendship, however, is more than literary biography; Bryan Crable argues that the Burke-Ellison relationship can be interpreted as a microcosm …
New Death
American Modernism and World War I
Av Pearl James
Häftad, 2013
433 kr
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Adopting the term ""new death,"" which was used to describe the unprecedented and horrific scale of death caused by the First World War, Pearl James uncovers several touchstones of American modernism that refer to and narrate traumatic death. The sense of paradox was pervasive: death was both …
