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Female «Bildungsroman» by Toni Morrison and Maxine Hong Kingston
A Postmodern Reading
Av Pin-chia Feng, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Häftad, 2000
441 kr
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This study traces the textual construction of identity in the female Bildungsroman of Toni Morrison and Maxine Hong Kingston. Deploying the «politics of rememory» in their textual representation of female development, Morrison and Kingston unearth the multiple layers of repressed memories, …
From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison
Ethics in Modern and Postmodern American Narrative
Av Jeffrey J. Folks, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Häftad, 2001
378 kr
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From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison: Ethics in Modern and Postmodern American Narrative studies the relationship of literature to contemporary ethical problems. Focusing on southern and African American writers, this book employs theoretical approaches from ethnicity studies, regional criticism, …
Best-Sellers and Their Film Adaptations in Postwar America
From Here to Eternity, Sayonara, Giant, Auntie Mame, Peyton Place
Av Jane Hendler, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Häftad, 2001
378 kr
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Best-Sellers and Their Film Adaptations in Postwar America looks at some of the most popular novels of the 1950s and examines how their representations of gender identity and conflict dispute and re-imagine the dominant constructions of masculinity and femininity in postwar culture. Working with …
Lillian Hellman and August Wilson
Dramatizing a New American Identity
Av Margaret Booker, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Inbunden, 2003
725 kr
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This book critically discusses the works of two seemingly different and unconnected playwrights, Lillian Hellman and August Wilson. By analyzing the black presence in Hellman and its counterpart white presence in Wilson, it exposes interracial boundaries and illuminates the architecture of the new …
Blues Aesthetic and the Making of American Identity in the Literature of the South
Av Barbara A. Baker, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Inbunden, 2003
755 kr
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The blues aesthetic as formulated by Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray holds that the African-American vernacular tradition, with blues music at its core, has had an unparalleled impact on the whole of American culture and art. Examining the manner in which the aesthetics related to blues music are …
Contemporary Latina/o Performing Arts of Moraga, Tropicana, Fusco, and Bustamante
Av Leah Garland
Inbunden, 2009
1207 kr
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Contemporary Latina/o Performing Arts of Moraga, Tropicana, Fusco, and Bustamante demonstrates the crucial significance of looking at theatrical performance for rethinking critical inquiry. Leah Garland closely analyzes the theoretical tools with which prominent theater artists – Cherríe Moraga, …
Nation, Race & History in Asian American Literature
Re-membering the Body
Häftad, 2008
643 kr
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Nation, Race & History in Asian American Literature reflects on the symbolic processes through which the United States constitutes its subjects as citizens, connecting such processes to the global dynamics of empire building and a suppressed history of American imperialism. Through a comparative …
Beat Generation and Counterculture
Paul Bowles, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac
Inbunden, 2009
1290 kr
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The Beat Generation and Counterculture examines three authors associated with the «Beat Generation» – Paul Bowles, William S. Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac – and the relevance of their attempt to travel, learn, and write about exotic non-Western cultures and repressed minority cultures in the United …
Technology and Postmodern Subjectivity in Don DeLillo’s Novels
Av Randy Laist
Inbunden, 2009
1225 kr
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More than any other major American author, Don DeLillo has examined the manner in which contemporary American consciousness has been shaped by the historically unique incursion into daily life of information, military, and consumer technologies. In DeLillo’s fictions, technological apparatuses are …
Modern and Postmodern Narratives of Race, Gender, and Identity
The Descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
Inbunden, 2010
1032 kr
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The alleged affair between Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, and his slave Sally Hemings was proven as a fact by DNA analysis in 1998. While many historians continue to deny the affair, some have accepted the love affair between Jefferson and Hemings as fact, and many …
Hunting the Sun
Faulkner’s Appropriations of Balzac’s Writings
Inbunden, 2010
1312 kr
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Hunting the Sun upends all previous Faulkner biography, scholarship, and criticism by tracing to Honoré de Balzac virtually everything in William Faulkner’s œuvre. Faulkner’s work departs, often confusingly, from the traditional Romantic focus of novels. The reason for the confusion is that …
Fragmented Female Body and Identity
The Postmodern, Feminist, and Multiethnic Writings of Toni Morrison, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Phyllis Alesia Perry, Gayl Jones, Emma Pérez, Paula Gunn Allen, and Kathy Acker
Inbunden, 2010
1139 kr
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The Fragmented Female Body and Identity explores the symbol of the wounded and scarred female body in selected postmodern, multiethnic American women’s novels, namely Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée, Phyllis Alesia Perry’s Stigmata, Gayl Jones’s Corregidora, Emma Pérez’s …
William Faulkner, Gavin Stevens, and the Cavalier Tradition
Inbunden, 2011
924 kr
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Many readers imagine Gavin Stevens as the character most similar to William Faulkner in all of his apocryphal Yoknapatawpha, and while Stevens was once considered the most reliable Faulknerian spokesperson, ample scholarship has demonstrated that he functions as far more than merely the author’s …
Autobiography, Ecology, and the Well-Placed Self
The Growth of Natural Biography in Contemporary American Life Writing
Inbunden, 2011
1008 kr
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Autobiography, Ecology, and the Well-Placed Self expands the field of autobiography studies by describing an emergent genre, natural biography, that embeds the human subject in a more-than-human world. Through an ecocritical analysis of three contemporary U.S. authors – William Kittredge, Terry …
Jane Smiley, Jonathan Franzen, Don DeLillo
Narratives of Everyday Justice
Inbunden, 2011
916 kr
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The novels of Jane Smiley, Jonathan Franzen, and Don DeLillo propose new readings of justice in contemporary American literature. Jason S. Polley argues that such distinctive writers as Smiley, Franzen, and DeLillo reconfigure what he calls «acts of justice» in various modalities and spaces. These …
"The Game as It Is Played"
Essays on Theodore Dreiser
Av Donald Pizer
Inbunden, 2013
1178 kr
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The Game as It Is Played comprises the best of Donald Pizer’s essays on Theodore Dreiser. Pizer, one of Dreiser’s principal critics over the past forty years, is especially concerned in establishing the distinctive nature and quality of Dreiser’s naturalism in many of these essays. From one of …
Stephen King as a Postmodern Author
Inbunden, 2013
915 kr
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Although studies on Stephen King (1947–) traditionally belong to the field of popular culture, some of his work, such as The Dark Half and popular culture, some of his work, such as The Dark Half and «Secret Window, Secret Garden,» give an insightful perspective on contemporary fiction. Drawing …
Princess Story
Modeling the Feminine in Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Film
Inbunden, 2013
1225 kr
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What is a princess story? In this subgenre, newly defined in The Princess Story, the protagonist either is a princess or is attempting to become one: the girl transforms into or identifies herself as a princess through marriage or through discovered identity, or both. Princess lessons often …
Desire and Disillusionment
A Guide to American Fiction Since 1890
Inbunden, 2013
1348 kr
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Desire and Disillusionment: A Guide to American Fiction Since 1890 departs from the typical academic study in that it appeals to the general reading public, undergraduate and graduate students, and literary scholars. The book’s focus on a highly relatable subject, longing and loss, its running plot …
American Realist Fictions of Marriage
From Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton to Frances Harper, Pauline Hopkins
Av Kelli V. Randall, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Inbunden, 2017
1330 kr
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American Realist Fictions of Marriage: From Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton to Frances Harper, Pauline Hopkins intervenes in the field of American literary realism by arguing that selected marriage fiction of Kate Chopin, Frances Harper, Pauline Hopkins, Williams Dean Howells, Emma Dunham-Kelly, and …
Playing with Expectations
Postmodern Narrative Choices and the African American Novel
Inbunden, 2015
1098 kr
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Playing with Expectations: Postmodern Narrative Choices and the African American Novel explores a merging of works by African American novelists to promote critical acceptance of postmodern literature and advance the legitimacy and usefulness of postmodern literary techniques. This book examines …
Nation of Islam and Black Consciousness
The Works of Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, and Other Writers
Av Ammar Abduh Aqeeli, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Inbunden, 2019
1182 kr
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The Nation of Islam and Black Consciousness: The Works of Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, and Other Writers engages in the scholarly discussions about the origins and formation of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, which rarely give credit to the role of the Nation of Islam’s (NOI) …
Toni Morrison and the Maternal
From «The Bluest Eye» to «God Help the Child», Revised Edition
Av Linda Wagner-Martin, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Häftad, 2019
652 kr
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In this revised edition, Linda Wagner-Martin offers a compelling study of African American writer Toni Morrison’s work, beginning with The Bluest Eye in 1970 and continuing through her 2015 novel God Help the Child. Wagner-Martin describes Morrison as an inherently original novelist who was shaped …
Paradox of Thanatos: Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg
From Self-Destruction to Self-Liberation
Av Tanguy Harma, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Inbunden, 2022
1080 kr
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More often associated with hedonism and cheap thrills than with notions of alienation and suffering, Beat literature has rarely been envisaged from the perspective of the paradoxical dynamics at play in the writings. What this book evidences is that the sacrosanct quest for transcendence staged by …
Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture
Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Tod Browning, and Carson McCullers
Av Nancy Bombaci, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Häftad, 2024
450 kr
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This updated, new edition of this book explores the emergence of what the author terms "late modernist freakish aesthetics"– a creative fusion of "high" and "low" themes and forms in relation to distorted bodies. Literary and cinematic texts about "freaks" by Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Tod …
Hemingway’s Primitivism
A Quest for Primal Authenticity
Av Peter Rooney
Inbunden, 2026
485 kr
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In this timely book, the author explores new ways of reading Hemingway’s work, considering nature, gender and American identity. Through forensic analysis of Hemingway’s fiction, the author traces his early experiences of post-frontier America and the decline of the American primitive. He shows …
"Forest Beatniks" and "Urban Thoreaus"
Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, Lew Welch, and Michael McClure
Av Rod Phillips, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Inbunden, 2000
630 kr
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The Beat Movement, which first rose to attention in 1955, has often been viewed by critics as an urban phenomenon —the product of a postwar-youth culture with roots in the cities of New York and San Francisco. This study examines another side of the Beat Movement: its strong desire for a …
Black Family (Dys)Function in Novels by Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, and Fannie Hurst
Black Family (dys)function in Novels by Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, and Fannie Hurst
Av Licia Morrow Calloway, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Häftad, 2003
371 kr
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During the Harlem Renaissance, competing rhetorics of racial uplift centered upon concerns regarding class identification and the process of acculturation into American society. This book demonstrates how the practice of motherhood and the organization of household relations operated to address the …
Family in Twentieth-Century American Drama
Av Thaddeus Wakefield, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Inbunden, 2003
679 kr
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The central subject of American drama is, arguably, the American family. From Royall Tyler’s colonial comedy The Contrast (1787) to August Wilson’s King Hedley II (2000), relationships between husbands, wives, and their children have been used consistently by American playwrights to explore and …
Don DeLillo
Balance at the Edge of Belief
Av Jesse Kavadlo, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Inbunden, 2003
771 kr
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Don DeLillo – winner of the National Book Award, the William Dean Howells Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize – is one of the most important novelists of the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. While his work can be understood and taught as prescient and postmodern examples of millennial …
