Commonwealth Center Studies in American Culture – serie
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'Littery Man'
Mark Twain and Modern Authorship
Inbunden, 1996
1345 kr
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As Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens became one of America's first modern celebrities, successfully straddling the conflicts between culture and commerce. Twain manipulated the cultural outlets of his day, not only through publication of his diverse novels, but through newspapers, magazines, book reviews, …
Signs of Diaspora/Diaspora of Signs
Literacies, Creolization, and Vernacular Practice in African America
Inbunden, 1998
2652 kr
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Challenging monolithic approaches to culture and literacy, this book looks at the roots of African-American reading and writing from the perspective of vernacular activities and creolization. It shows that African-Americans, while readily mastering the conventions and canons of Euro-America, also …
California and the Fictions of Capital
Inbunden, 1999
1914 kr
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These essays on California's economy, culture, and literature between the 1880s and 1920s show how rural places were made over in the image of capital. The story told here is of the real and imaginary spaces that capital occupied, including its encounters with the realities and representations of …
