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American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War
A Critical Reassessment
Av Steven Belletto, Daniel Grausam
Häftad, 2012
499 kr
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The time is right for a critical reassessment of Cold War culture both because its full cultural impact remains unprocessed and because some of the chief paradigms for understanding that culture confuse rather than clarify.A collection of the work of some of the best cultural critics writing about …
Workshops of Empire
Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing during the Cold War
Av Eric Bennett
Häftad, 2015
194 kr
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During and just after World War II, an influential group of American writers and intellectuals projected a vision for literature that would save the free world. Novels, stories, plays, and poems, they believed, could inoculate weak minds against simplistic totalitarian ideologies, heal the …
It's Just the Normal Noises
Marcus, Guralnick, No Depression, and the Mystery of Americana Music
Av Timothy Gray
Häftad, 2017
191 kr
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Roots rock, Americana, alt country: what are they and why do they matter? Americans have been trying to answer these questions for as long as the music bearing these labels has existed. Music can function as an escape from the outside world or as an explanation of that world. Listeners who identify …
Hope Isn't Stupid
Utopian Affects in Contemporary American Literature
Häftad, 2017
647 kr
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Hope Isn’t Stupid is the first study to interrogate the neglected connections between affect and the practice of utopia in contemporary American literature. Although these concepts are rarely theorized together, it is difficult to fully articulate utopia without understanding how affects circulate …
Race Sounds
The Art of Listening in African American Literature
Av Nicole Brittingham Furlonge
Häftad, 2018
439 kr
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We live in a world of talk. Yet Race Sounds argues that we need to listen more—not just hear things, but actively listen—particularly in relation to how we engage race, gender, and class differences. Forging new ideas about the relationship between race and sound, Furlonge explores how black …
Half a Million Strong
Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella
Av Gina Arnold
Häftad, 2018
182 kr
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From baby boomers to millennials, attending a big music festival has basically become a cultural rite of passage in America. In Half a Million Strong, music writer and scholar Gina Arnold explores the history of large music festivals in America and examines their impact on American culture. …
Neocolonial Fictions of the Global Cold War
Av Steven Belletto, Joseph Keith
Häftad, 2019
843 kr
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Bringing together noted scholars in the fields of literary, cultural, gender, and race studies, this edited volume challenges us to reconsider our understanding of the Cold War, revealing it to be a global phenomenon rather than just a binary conflict between U.S. and Soviet forces. Shining a …
Poems of the American Empire
The Lyric Form in the Long Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2019
745 kr
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Poems of the American Empire argues that careful attention to a particular strain of twentieth-century lyric poetry yields a counter-history of American global power. The period that Phillis covers-from Ezra Pound's A Draft of XXX Cantos in 1930 to Cathy Park Hong's Engine Empire in 2012-roughly …
Wrong
A Critical Biography of Dennis Cooper
Häftad, 2020
370 kr
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Dennis Cooper is one of the most inventive and prolific artists of our time. Working in a variety of forms and media since he first exploded onto the scene in the early 1970s, he has been a punk poet, a queercore novelist, a transgressive blogger, an indie filmmaker - each successive incarnation …
William Gibson and the Future of Contemporary Culture
Av Mitch R. Murray, Mathias Nilges
Häftad, 2021
892 kr
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William Gibson is frequently described as one of the most influential writers of the past few decades, yet his body of work has only been studied partially and without full recognition of its implications for literature and culture beyond science fiction. It is high time for a book that explores …
Novel Subjects
Authorship as Radical Self-Care in Multiethnic American Narratives
Häftad, 2021
892 kr
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How does contemporary literature contend with the power and responsibility of authorship, particularly when considering marginalized groups? How have the works of multiethnic authors challenged the notion that writing and authorship are neutral or universal?In Novel Subjects, Leah Milne offers a …
Ecospatiality
A Place-Based Approach to American Literature
Av Lowell Wyse
Häftad, 2021
892 kr
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Ecospatiality explores modern and contemporary American prose literature through the lens of place, showing how authors like William Least Heat-Moon, Willa Cather, Richard Wright, and Leslie Marmon Silko represent and reimagine real places in the world and the human-environment relationships …
Art Essays
A Collection
Häftad, 2021
277 kr
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Art Essays is a passionate collection of the best essays on the visual arts written by contemporary novelists. This vibrant and diverse selection includes essays by award-winning writers such as Zadie Smith, Chris Kraus, Teju Cole, Orhan Pamuk, and Jhumpa Lahiri. From the art of Sonia Delaunay and …
Contested Terrain
Suburban Fiction and U.S. Regionalism, 1945-2020
Häftad, 2022
917 kr
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Contested Terrain explores suburban literature between two moments of domestic crisis: the housing shortage that gave rise to the modern era of suburbanization after World War II, and the mortgage defaults and housing foreclosures that precipitated the Great Recession. Moving away from scholarship …
Writing Wars
Authorship and American War Fiction, WWI to Present
Häftad, 2022
917 kr
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Who writes novels about war? For nearly a century after World War I, the answer was simple: soldiers who had been there. The assumption that a person must have experienced war in the flesh in order to write about it in fiction was taken for granted by writers, reviewers, critics, and even …
Profiles and Plotlines
Data Surveillance in Twenty-first Century Literature
Häftad, 2023
892 kr
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Algorithmic data profiling is not merely an important topic in contemporary fiction, it is an increasingly dominant form of storytelling and characterization in our society. These stories are being told inside boardrooms, banks, presidential briefings, police stations, advertising agencies, and …
Novel Competition
American Fiction and the Cultural Economy, 1965-1999
Av Evan Brier
Häftad, 2024
843 kr
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Novel Competition describes the literary and institutional struggle to make American novels matter between 1965 and 1999. As corporations took over the book business, Hollywood movies, popular music, and other forms of mass-produced culture competed with novels as never before for a form of …
purplish
poetry anger publics
Häftad, 2025
352 kr
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José Felipe Alvergue examines anger in American poetry, while reflecting on the permissible/policed cultural affects of our time. By way of BIPOC and QTPOC poets engaging with negativity—frustration, anger, distress—Alvergue argues that affects that reflect a counternarrative to benevolence …
Writings of Jesmyn Ward
Matters of Black Southern Life and Death
Av Martyn Bone
Häftad, 2025
745 kr
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Since the publication of her first novel in 2008, Jesmyn Ward has established herself as arguably the most important U.S. author of the twenty-first century. This book considers the full range of her career thus far, including National Book Award–winning novels Salvage the Bones and Sing, Unburied, …
Writing Through Writer's Block
Lessons from Modern American Fiction
Av Aaron Colton
Häftad, 2025
941 kr
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Recent fiction is teeming with blocked writers: from John Updike’s Henry Bech to Stephen King’s Paul Sheldon and Mike Noonan. From David Foster Wallace’s Mark Nechtr to the autofictional figures of Jordan Castro, Salvador Plascencia, Nam Le, Ben Lerner, Sheila Heti, and Andrew Martin. Writing …
Easy
A Hard Look at Soft Rock
Av Timothy Gray
Häftad, 2026
313 kr
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“‘Soft Rock,’ they call it; low-key stuff with wide appeal.” So stated a 1971 Chicago Tribune article on the Carpenters. Over time, Soft Rock became the butt of jokes, yet during its heyday, it fit America’s changing mood, blending rebellion with conservatism. Easy explains how Soft Rock and …
Genre Migrations
Rhetorical Borders in Post-9/11 U.S. Literature
Häftad, 2026
745 kr
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President John F. Kennedy believed the U.S. to be a nation of immigrants, an opinion that influenced the country’s rhetoric and public feelings for decades. But opinions changed after 9/11. Immigration developed into a national security issue and one of the most hotly debated political talking …
Air Split Open
Odetta, Joan Baez, and the American Folk Movement
Häftad, 2026
271 kr
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Nearly a decade ago, Bob Dylan fan Addie Mahmassani took a look at her large collection of books on the 1960s folk revival and asked what was missing. The answer was obvious: There was scarce feminist analysis of the scene. Air Split Open takes an important step in filling this gap.Deploying her …
Contemporary Immigrant Writing and Black America
Häftad, 2026
941 kr
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Contemporary Immigrant Writing and Black America addresses how minoritized communities in the United States find each other, make sense of each other, and come together to confront the many guises of racism and racist practices. This book probes the life and writings of Korean immigrants, Indian …
Reading Relations
How Authors Enter Our Lives
Av Dan Dixon
Häftad, 2026
941 kr
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Drawing on the ordinary language philosophy of Toril Moi and Stanley Cavell, Dan Dixon argues that the act of reading shares emotional ground with our social lives. It prompts us to attend to the kinds of affective attachments that frequently resist description, as well as the attachments that …
Afterlife of Taste Hierarchies in Contemporary U.S. Art and Literature
Häftad, 2026
941 kr
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Connecting literary studies, media theory, and cultural criticism, The Afterlife of Taste Hierarchies in Contemporary U.S. Art and Literature offers a fresh vocabulary for understanding how we evaluate art and each other in an age of digital mediation. Drawing on works and artifacts ranging from …
Technomodern Poetics
The American Literary Avant-garde at the Start of the Information Age
Häftad, 2018
745 kr
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After the second World War, the term “technology” came to signify both the anxieties of possible annihilation in a rapidly changing world and the exhilaration of accelerating cultural change. Technomodern Poetics examines how some of the most well-known writers of the era described the tensions …
Contemporary Novelists and the Aesthetics of Twenty-First Century American Life
Häftad, 2020
794 kr
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Contemporary Novelists and the Aesthetics of Twenty-First Century American Life gives us a new way to view contemporary art novels, asking the key question: How do contemporary writers imagine aesthetic experience? Examining the works of some of the most popular names in contemporary fiction and …
Global Frontier
Postwar Travel in American Literature
Av Eric Strand
Häftad, 2023
917 kr
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Americans often associate travel with luxury, a cosmopolitan lifestyle, and relaxation. They travel to “get away from it all.” Most fail to consider that modern American travel began in the straitened circumstances of the 1930s, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt encouraged citizens to tour the …
