Imagining the Americas – serie
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9 produkter
Hemispheric Regionalism
Romance and the Geography of Genre
Inbunden, 2016
2178 kr
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In this broad ranging study, Gretchen Woertendyke reconfigures US literary history as a product of hemispheric relations. Hemispheric Regionalism: Romance and the Geography of Genre, brings together a rich archive of popular culture, fugitive slave narratives, advertisements, political treatises, …
Millennial Literatures of the Americas, 1492-2002
Inbunden, 2008
860 kr
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This bracing and far-ranging study compares modern (post-1492) literary treatments of millenarian narratives--"end of the world" stories charting an ultimate battle between good and evil that destroys previous social structures and rings in a lasting new order. While present in many cultures for as …
The Plantation in the Postslavery Imagination
Inbunden, 2010
836 kr
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The Plantation in the Postslavery Imagination examines the persistent presence of the plantation in trans-American literatures of the last century. Russ conceives the plantation to be not primarily a physical location, but rather an ideological and psychological trope through which intersecting …
Tragic Soul-Life
W.E.B. Du Bois and the Moral Crisis Facing American Democracy
Inbunden, 2012
2234 kr
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Contemporary debates on the role of religion in American public life ignore the overlap between religion and race in the formation of American democratic traditions and more often than not imagine democracy within the terrain of John Rawls's political liberalism. This kind of political liberalism, …
Religious Liberties
Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture
Inbunden, 2011
2178 kr
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In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, U.S. literary and cultural productions often presented Catholicism not only as a threat to Protestantism but also as an enemy of democracy. Focusing on representations of the Catholic as a political force, Elizabeth Fenton argues that U.S. …
God's Arbiters
Americans and the Philippines, 1898 - 1902
Häftad, 2013
635 kr
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When the U.S. liberated the Philippines from Spanish rule in 1898, the exploit was hailed at home as a great moral victory, an instance of Uncle Sam freeing an oppressed country from colonial tyranny. The next move, however, was hotly contested: should the U.S. annex the archipelago? The disputants …
The Unsettlement of America
Translation, Interpretation, and the Story of Don Luis de Velasco, 1560-1945
Inbunden, 2014
2178 kr
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The Unsettlement of America explores the career and legacy of Don Luis de Velasco, an early modern indigenous translator of the sixteenth-century Atlantic world who traveled far and wide and experienced nearly a decade of Western civilization before acting decisively against European settlement. …
God's Arbiters
Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902
Inbunden, 2011
1134 kr
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Mark Twain called it "pious hypocrisies." President McKinley called it "civilizing and Christianizing." Both were referring to the U.S. annexation of the Philippines in 1899. Drawing on documents ranging from Noah Webster's 1832 History of the United States through Congressional speeches and …
Between the Lines
Literary Transnationalism and African American Poetics
Inbunden, 2011
2441 kr
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Between the Lines examines the role of women poets of African descent in shaping the history of the Americas. Focusing on three women whose poetry wrestled with the sociopolitical predicaments of the late nineteenth century, Between the Lines ventures a broader definition of African American …
