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Transatlantic Footholds
Turn-of-the-Century American Women Writers and British Reviewers
Inbunden, 2019
2888 kr
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Transatlantic Footholds: Turn-of-the-Century American Women Writers and British Reviewers analyses British reviews of American women fiction writers, essayists and poets between the periods of literary domesticity and modernism. The book demonstrates that a variety of American women writers were …
Ambivalent Transnational Belonging in American Literature
Inbunden, 2021
2888 kr
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Ambivalent Transnational Belonging in American Literature discusses the extent to which transnational concepts of identity and community are cast within nationalist frameworks. It analyzes how the different narrative perspectives in texts by Olaudah Equiano, Catharina Maria Sedgwick, Henry James, …
Richard Wright and Transnationalism
New Dimensions to Modern American Expatriate Literature
Häftad, 2020
845 kr
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Richard Wright and Transnationalism sees Dr. Mamoun Alzoubi argue that renowned American Author, Richard Wright, transformed the way that we approach comparative literature by beginning to look at matters of American racism and Civil Rights in transnational contexts, formed by the new nations …
Navigating the Transnational in Modern American Literature and Culture
Häftad, 2019
845 kr
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This study develops the important work carried out on American literature through the frameworks of transnational, transatlantic, and trans-local studies to ask what happens when these same aspects become intrinsic to the critical narrative. Much cultural criticism since the 1990s has sought to …
Hospitality in American Literature and Culture
Spaces, Bodies, Borders
Av Ana Maria Manzanas Calvo, Jesús Benito Sanchez
Häftad, 2019
812 kr
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This volume examines hospitality in American immigrant literature and culture, situating this ancient virtue at the crossroads of space and border theory, and exploring the relationship among the intersecting themes of migration, citizenship, identity formation, and spatiality. Assessing the …
New Woman Hybridities
Femininity, Feminism, and International Consumer Culture, 1880–1930
Av MARGARET BEETHAM, Ann Heilmann
Inbunden, 2004
2888 kr
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Since the 1970s, the literary and cultural politics of the turn-of-the-century New Woman have received increasing academic attention. Whether she is seen as the emblem of sexual anarchy, an agent of mediation between mass market and modernist cultures, or as a symptom of the consolidation of …
Don DeLillo
The Possibility of Fiction
Av Peter Boxall
Inbunden, 2006
2888 kr
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One of the few available books of criticism on the topic, this monograph presents the fullest account to date of Don DeLillo's writing, situating his oeuvre within a wider analysis of the condition of contemporary fiction, and dealing with his entire work in relation to contemporary political and …
Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'
Origins
Inbunden, 2008
2888 kr
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This work expands the scope of Morrison’s project to examine the ways and means of memory in the preservation of belief systems passed down from the earliest civilizations (both the Classical Greek and the Ancient Egyptian) as a challenge to the sterility of modernity. Moreover, this research …
Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American Foundational Literature
Inbunden, 2004
2888 kr
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This book is a significant contribution to existing research on the themes of race and slavery in the founding literature of the United States. It extends the boundaries of existing research by locating race and slavery within a transnational and 'oceanic' framework.The author applies critical …
Mexican American Literature
The Politics of Identity
Inbunden, 2006
2888 kr
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Presenting an up-to-date critical perspective as well as a cultural, political and historical context, this book is an excellent introduction to Mexican American literature, affording readers the major novels, drama and poetry. This volume presents fresh and original readings of major works, and …
Asian American Fiction, History and Life Writing
International Encounters
Av Helena Grice
Inbunden, 2009
1749 kr
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The last ten years have witnessed an enormous growth in American interest in Asia and Asian/American history. In particular, a set of key Asian historical moments have recently become the subject of intense American cultural scrutiny, namely China’s Cultural Revolution and its aftermath; the Korean …
Native American Literature
Towards a Spatialized Reading
Inbunden, 2006
2888 kr
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Native American Literature underwent a Renaissance around 1968, and the current canon of novels written in the late twentieth century in American English by Native American or mixed-blood authors is diverse, exciting and flourishing. Despite this, very few such novels are accepted as part of the …
Nabokov, History and the Texture of Time
Av Will Norman
Inbunden, 2012
2888 kr
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This book argues that the apparent evasion of history in Vladimir Nabokov’s fiction conceals a profound engagement with social, and therefore political, temporalities. While Nabokov scholarship has long assumed the same position as Nabokov himself — that his works exist in a state of historical …
Mexican American Literature
The Politics of Identity
Häftad, 2009
862 kr
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Presenting an up-to-date critical perspective as well as a cultural, political and historical context, this book is an excellent introduction to Mexican American literature, affording readers the major novels, drama and poetry. This volume presents fresh and original readings of major works, and …
Native American Literature
Towards a Spatialized Reading
Häftad, 2009
862 kr
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Native American Literature underwent a Renaissance around 1968, and the current canon of novels written in the late twentieth century in American English by Native American or mixed-blood authors is diverse, exciting and flourishing. Despite this, very few such novels are accepted as part of the …
Remapping Citizenship and the Nation in African-American Literature
Häftad, 2012
946 kr
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Through a reading of periodicals, memoirs, speeches, and fiction from the antebellum period to the Harlem Renaissance, this study re-examines various myths about a U.S. progressive history and about an African American counter history in terms of race, democracy, and citizenship. Reframing 19th …
Transnationalism of American Culture
Literature, Film, and Music
Av Rocío Davis
Inbunden, 2012
2888 kr
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This book studies the transnational nature of American cultural production, specifically literature, film, and music, examining how these serve as ways of perceiving the United States and American culture. The volume’s engagement with the reality of transnationalism focuses on material examples …
Don DeLillo
The Possibility of Fiction
Av Peter Boxall
Häftad, 2012
979 kr
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One of the few available books of criticism on the topic, this monograph presents the fullest account to date of Don DeLillo's writing, situating his oeuvre within a wider analysis of the condition of contemporary fiction, and dealing with his entire work in relation to contemporary political and …
New Woman Hybridities
Femininity, Feminism, and International Consumer Culture, 1880–1930
Av MARGARET BEETHAM, Ann Heilmann
Häftad, 2012
946 kr
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Since the 1970s, the literary and cultural politics of the turn-of-the-century New Woman have received increasing academic attention. Whether she is seen as the emblem of sexual anarchy, an agent of mediation between mass market and modernist cultures, or as a symptom of the consolidation of …
Gender and the Self in Latin American Literature
Inbunden, 2015
3156 kr
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This book explores six texts from across Spanish America in which the coming-of-age story ('Bildungsroman') offers a critique of gendered selfhood as experienced in the region’s socio-cultural contexts. Looking at a range of novels from the late twentieth century, Staniland explores thematic …
Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture
Static Heroes, Social Movements and Empowerment
Av Ana Manzanas, Jesús Benito Sanchez
Inbunden, 2014
1749 kr
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Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture inscribes itself within the spatial turn that permeates the ways we look at literary and cultural productions. The volume seeks to clarify the connections between race, space, class, and identity as it concentrates on different occupations and …
Identity, Diaspora and Return in American Literature
Av Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger
Inbunden, 2014
2888 kr
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This volume combines literary analysis and theoretical approaches to mobility, diasporic identities and the construction of space to explore the different ways in which the notion of return shapes contemporary ethnic writing such as fiction, ethnography, memoir, and film. Through a wide variety of …
Travel and Dislocation in Contemporary American Fiction
Häftad, 2013
1046 kr
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This book offers a critical study and analysis of American fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It focuses on novels that ‘go outward’ literally and metaphorically, and it concentrates on narratives that take place mainly away from the US’s geographical borders.Varvogli draws on …
Transnationalism and American Serial Fiction
Häftad, 2013
946 kr
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Transnationalism and American Serial Fiction explores the vibrant tradition of serial fiction published in U.S. minority periodicals. Beloved by readers, these serial novels helped sustain the periodicals and communities in which they circulated. With essays on serial fiction published from the …
Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American Foundational Literature
Häftad, 2015
996 kr
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This book is a significant contribution to existing research on the themes of race and slavery in the founding literature of the United States. It extends the boundaries of existing research by locating race and slavery within a transnational and 'oceanic' framework.The author applies critical …
Transnationalism and American Literature
Literary Translation 1773–1892
Inbunden, 2007
2101 kr
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What is transnationalism and how does it affect American literature?This book examines nineteenth century contexts of transnationalism, translation and American literature. The discussion of transnationalism largely revolves around the question of what role nationalism plays in the spaces and …
Western Landscape in Cormac McCarthy and Wallace Stegner
Myths of the Frontier
Inbunden, 2009
2888 kr
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The western American landscape has always had great significance in American thinking, requiring an unlikely union between frontier mythology and the reality of a fragile western environment. Additionally it has borne the burden of being a gendered space, seen by some as the traditional "virgin …
Western Landscape in Cormac McCarthy and Wallace Stegner
Myths of the Frontier
Häftad, 2012
1046 kr
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The western American landscape has always had great significance in American thinking, requiring an unlikely union between frontier mythology and the reality of a fragile western environment. Additionally it has borne the burden of being a gendered space, seen by some as the traditional "virgin …
Asian American Fiction, History and Life Writing
International Encounters
Av Helena Grice
Häftad, 2011
611 kr
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The last ten years have witnessed an enormous growth in American interest in Asia and Asian/American history. In particular, a set of key Asian historical moments have recently become the subject of intense American cultural scrutiny, namely China’s Cultural Revolution and its aftermath; the Korean …
American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History
Häftad, 2012
946 kr
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The United States today is afflicted with political alienation, militarized violence, institutionalized poverty, and social agony. Worst of all, perhaps, it is afflicted with chronic and acute ahistoricism. America insist on ignoring the context of its present dilemmas. It insists on forgetting …
