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Assuming the role of the African American griotte of her generation, Gloria Naylor seeks to recover and remember the eroded history of female archetypes in order to overcome the pain that a patriarchal, misogynist society has caused for Black women. Through revisiting...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-08
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Empires and Colonies provides a thoroughgoing and lively exploration of the expansion of the seaborne empires of western Europe from the fifteenth century and how that process of expansion affected the world, including its successor, the United States. Whilst providing...
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Polity
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2013-04-22
Collection :
Themes in History
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Written in a clear, accessible, storytelling style, African American Theater will shine a bright new light on the culture which has historically nurtured and inspired Black Theater. Functioning as an interactive guide for students and teachers, African American Theater...
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Polity
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2013-04-18
Collection :
Cultural History of Literature
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Where is American Literature? offers a spirited and compelling argument for rethinking the way we view American literature in relation to the nation while powerfully demonstrating why it continues to matter in a global age. A refreshing and accessible investigation...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-04-10
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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This astute guide to the literary achievements of American novelists in the twentieth century places their work in its historical context and offers detailed analyses of landmark novels based on a clearly laid out set of tools for analyzing narrative form. Includes a...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-03-25
Collection :
Reading the Novel
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A COMPANION TO LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE “The work contains a wealth of information that must surely provide the basic material for a number of study modules. It should find a place on the library shelves of all institutions where Latin American studies...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-03-21
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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The wealth of transatlantic scholarship to emerge in recent years has greatly enriched our understanding of the mutual, far-reaching cultural exchange between Great Britain and the United States. Yet scholars often lose sight of this relationship in the years...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-03-04
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Featuring the latest research findings and exploring the fascinating interplay of modernist authors and intellectual luminaries, from Beckett and Kafka to Derrida and Adorno, this bold new collection of essays gives students a deeper grasp of key texts in modernist...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-02-26
Collection :
Critical Theory Handbooks
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Featuring the latest research findings and exploring the fascinating interplay of modernist authors and intellectual luminaries, from Beckett and Kafka to Derrida and Adorno, this bold new collection of essays gives students a deeper grasp of key texts in modernist...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-02-25
Collection :
Critical Theory Handbooks
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Scheherazade, the storyteller of 1001 Arabian Nights, recounts stories literally to save her people, and in Scheherazade’s Daughters, Barbara Bennett explores how contemporary female authors attempt to save their own world by telling compelling stories that disseminate...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-02-19
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Thomas Pynchon and the Postmodern Mythology of the Underworld is devoted to the work of one of the most highly acclaimed writers of the post-World War II period of American literature,Thomas Pynchon. Through close readings and broad amplification, this book illustrates...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-02-19
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According to the law of the jungle, the behavior of wild animals can be equated with natural human instincts not only for competition and reproduction, but also for violence and exploitation. Drawing on numerous novels and cultural events at the turn of the twentieth...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-01-10
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The diminishment of rural life at the hands of urbanization, for many, defines the years between the end of the Civil War and the dawn of the twentieth century in the U.S. Traditional literary histories find this transformation clearly demarcated between rural...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-12-22
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The first literary/biographical study of Hawthorne's full career in almost forty years, Hawthorne's Habitations presents a self-divided man and writer strongly attracted to reality for its own sake and remarkably adept at rendering it yet fearful of the nothingness he...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-12-19
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American authors pioneered a mode of musical writing that quite literally resounded beyond the printed page. Novels gained soundtracks, poetry compelled its audiences to sing, and the ostensibly silent act of reading...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-12-12
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A HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE 1950 TO THE PRESENT Featuring works from notable authors as varied as Salinger and the Beats to Vonnegut, Capote, Morrison, Rich, Walker, Eggers, and DeLillo,A History of American Literature: 1950 to the Present offers a comprehensive...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-11-26
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Histories of American Literature
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In this collection of essays, Americanists from the United States, Germany, and Latvia enter the scholarly debate about the ever increasing pluralization of societies on the North American continent by correlating the issues of multiculturalism and ethnic survival....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-11-12
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Family Money explores the histories of formerly enslaved women who tried to claim inheritances left to them by deceased owners, the household traumas of mixed-race slaves, post-Emancipation calls for reparations, and the economic fallout from anti-miscegenation marriage...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-11-01
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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s status as an artist rests as much on The Scarlet Letter as on his short fictions. It is both telling and appropriate that academic research in the short story should be dated to Mary Rohrberger’s study Hawthorne and the Modern Short Story,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-10-24
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Under the influence of Thomas Pynchon, a generation of postmodern American writers has explored the theme of conspiracy and paranoia, its origins in contemporary American culture, and its political and ideological ramifications. This intense preoccupation with paranoid...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-10-23
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