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  1. The Borderlands of Culture
    Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary
    Author: Saldívar, Ramón
    Published: [2006]; © 2006
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham

    Poet, novelist, journalist, and ethnographer, Américo Paredes (1915-1999) was a pioneering figure in Mexican American border studies and a founder of Chicano studies. Paredes taught literature and anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin for... more

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    Poet, novelist, journalist, and ethnographer, Américo Paredes (1915-1999) was a pioneering figure in Mexican American border studies and a founder of Chicano studies. Paredes taught literature and anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin for decades, and his ethnographic and literary critical work laid the groundwork for subsequent scholarship on the folktales, legends, and riddles of Mexican Americans. In this beautifully written literary history, the distinguished scholar Ramón Saldívar establishes Paredes's preeminent place in writing the contested cultural history of the south Texas borderlands. At the same time, Saldívar reveals Paredes as a precursor to the "new" American cultural studies by showing how he perceptively negotiated the contradictions between the national and transnational forces at work in the Americas in the nascent era of globalization.Saldívar demonstrates how Paredes's poetry, prose, and journalism prefigured his later work as a folklorist and ethnographer. In song, story, and poetry, Paredes first developed the themes and issues that would be central to his celebrated later work on the "border studies" or "anthropology of the borderlands." Saldívar describes how Paredes's experiences as an American soldier, journalist, and humanitarian aid worker in Asia shaped his understanding of the relations between Anglos and Mexicans in the borderlands of south Texas and of national and ethnic identities more broadly. Saldívar was a friend of Paredes, and part of The Borderlands of Culture is told in Paredes's own words. By explaining how Paredes's work engaged with issues central to contemporary scholarship, Saldívar extends Paredes's intellectual project and shows how it contributes to the remapping of the field of American studies from a transnational perspective

     
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    Contributor: Emma, Tenayuca (Publisher); George I., Sánchez (Publisher); Pease, Donald E. (Publisher)
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    ISBN: 9780822387954
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    Series: New Americanists
    Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
    Scope: 1 online resource (536 pages), 33 b&w photos, 1 map
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  2. Red Land, Red Power
    Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel
    Author: Teuton, Sean Kicummah
    Published: [2008]; © 2008
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham

    In lucid narrative prose, Sean Kicummah Teuton studies the stirring literature of "Red Power," an era of Native American organizing that began in 1969 and expanded into the 1970s. Teuton challenges the claim that Red Power thinking relied on romantic... more

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    In lucid narrative prose, Sean Kicummah Teuton studies the stirring literature of "Red Power," an era of Native American organizing that began in 1969 and expanded into the 1970s. Teuton challenges the claim that Red Power thinking relied on romantic longings for a pure Indigenous past and culture. He shows instead that the movement engaged historical memory and oral tradition to produce more enabling knowledge of American Indian lives and possibilities. Looking to the era's moments and literature, he develops an alternative, "tribal realist" critical perspective to allow for more nuanced analyses of Native writing. In this approach, "knowledge" is not the unattainable product of disinterested observation. Rather it is the achievement of communally mediated, self-reflexive work openly engaged with the world, and as such it is revisable. For this tribal realist position, Teuton enlarges the concepts of Indigenous identity and tribal experience as intertwined sources of insight into a shared world.While engaging a wide spectrum of Native American writing, Teuton focuses on three of the most canonized and, he contends, most misread novels of the era-N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn (1968), James Welch's Winter in the Blood (1974), and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony (1977). Through his readings, he demonstrates the utility of tribal realism as an interpretive framework to explain social transformations in Indian Country during the Red Power era and today. Such transformations, Teuton maintains, were forged through a process of political awakening that grew from Indians' rethought experience with tribal lands and oral traditions, the body and imprisonment, in literature and in life

     
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    ISBN: 9780822389040
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Native American; American fiction; Indians of North America
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  3. Translating Empire
    José Martí, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American Modernities
    Author: Lomas, Laura
    Published: [2009]; © 2008
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham

    In Translating Empire, Laura Lomas uncovers how late nineteenth-century Latino migrant writers developed a prescient critique of U.S. imperialism, one that prefigures many of the concerns about empire, race, and postcolonial subjectivity animating... more

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    In Translating Empire, Laura Lomas uncovers how late nineteenth-century Latino migrant writers developed a prescient critique of U.S. imperialism, one that prefigures many of the concerns about empire, race, and postcolonial subjectivity animating American studies today. During the 1880s and early 1890s, the Cuban journalist, poet, and revolutionary José Martí and other Latino migrants living in New York City translated North American literary and cultural texts into Spanish. Lomas reads the canonical literature and popular culture of the United States in the Gilded Age through the eyes of Martí and his fellow editors, activists, orators, and poets. In doing so, she reveals how, in the process of translating Anglo-American culture into a Latino-American idiom, the Latino migrant writers invented a modernist aesthetics to criticize U.S. expansionism and expose Anglo stereotypes of Latin Americans.Lomas challenges longstanding conceptions about Martí through readings of neglected texts and reinterpretations of his major essays. Against the customary view that emphasizes his strong identification with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman, the author demonstrates that over several years, Martí actually distanced himself from Emerson's ideas and conveyed alarm at Whitman's expansionist politics. She questions the association of Martí with pan-Americanism, pointing out that in the 1880s, the Cuban journalist warned against foreign geopolitical influence imposed through ostensibly friendly meetings and the promotion of hemispheric peace and "free" trade. Lomas finds Martí undermining racialized and sexualized representations of America in his interpretations of Buffalo Bill and other rituals of westward expansion, in his self-published translation of Helen Hunt Jackson's popular romance novel Ramona, and in his comments on writing that stereotyped Latino/a Americans as inherently unfit for self-government. With Translating Empire, Lomas recasts the contemporary practice of American studies in light of Martí's late-nineteenth-century radical decolonizing project

     
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    ISBN: 9780822389415
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    Series: New Americanists
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Spanish American literature
    Scope: 1 online resource (400 pages), 7 illustrations
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  4. Blood Narrative
    Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts
    Author: Allen, Chadwick
    Published: [2002]; © 2002
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham

    Blood Narrative is a comparative literary and cultural study of post-World War II literary and activist texts by New Zealand Maori and American Indians-groups who share much in their responses to European settler colonialism. Chadwick Allen reveals... more

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    Blood Narrative is a comparative literary and cultural study of post-World War II literary and activist texts by New Zealand Maori and American Indians-groups who share much in their responses to European settler colonialism. Chadwick Allen reveals the complex narrative tactics employed by writers and activists in these societies that enabled them to realize unprecedented practical power in making both their voices and their own sense of indigeneity heard.Allen shows how both Maori and Native Americans resisted the assimilationist tide rising out of World War II and how, in the 1960s and 1970s, they each experienced a renaissance of political and cultural activism and literary production that culminated in the formation of the first general assembly of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples. He focuses his comparison on two fronts: first, the blood/land/memory complex that refers to these groups' struggles to define indigeneity and to be freed from the definitions of authenticity imposed by dominant settler cultures. Allen's second focus is on the discourse of treaties between American Indians and the U.S. government and between Maori and Great Britain, which he contends offers strong legal and moral bases from which these indigenous minorities can argue land and resource rights as well as cultural and identity politics.With its implicit critique of multiculturalism and of postcolonial studies that have tended to neglect the colonized status of indigenous First World minorities, Blood Narrative will appeal to students and scholars of literature, American and European history, multiculturalism, postcolonialism, and comparative cultural studies

     
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    ISBN: 9780822383826
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    Series: New Americanists
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Native American; American literature; Comparative literature; Comparative literature; Group identity in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Indian activists; Indians of North America; Indigenous peoples in literature; Maori (New Zealand people); New Zealand literature
    Scope: 1 online resource (319 pages)
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  5. Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain
    Reading Encounters between Black and Red, 1922-1963
    Author: Baldwin, Kate A.
    Published: [2002]; © 2002
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham

    Examining the significant influence of the Soviet Union on the work of four major African American authors-and on twentieth-century American debates about race-Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain remaps black modernism, revealing the... more

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    Examining the significant influence of the Soviet Union on the work of four major African American authors-and on twentieth-century American debates about race-Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain remaps black modernism, revealing the importance of the Soviet experience in the formation of a black transnationalism.Langston Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois, Claude McKay, and Paul Robeson each lived or traveled extensively in the Soviet Union between the 1920s and the 1960s, and each reflected on Communism and Soviet life in works that have been largely unavailable, overlooked, or understudied. Kate A. Baldwin takes up these writings, as well as considerable material from Soviet sources-including articles in Pravda and Ogonek, political cartoons, Russian translations of unpublished manuscripts now lost, and mistranslations of major texts-to consider how these writers influenced and were influenced by both Soviet and American culture. Her work demonstrates how the construction of a new Soviet citizen attracted African Americans to the Soviet Union, where they could explore a national identity putatively free of class, gender, and racial biases. While Hughes and McKay later renounced their affiliations with the Soviet Union, Baldwin shows how, in different ways, both Hughes and McKay, as well as Du Bois and Robeson, used their encounters with the U. S. S. R. and Soviet models to rethink the exclusionary practices of citizenship and national belonging in the United States, and to move toward an internationalism that was a dynamic mix of antiracism, anticolonialism, social democracy, and international socialism.Recovering what Baldwin terms the "Soviet archive of Black America," this book forces a rereading of some of the most important African American writers and of the transnational circuits of black modernism

     
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    ISBN: 9780822383833
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    Series: New Americanists
    Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies; African American arts; African American authors; African American intellectuals; African Americans; Communism
    Scope: 1 online resource (359 pages), 19 b&w photos
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  6. The Genuine Article
    Race, Mass Culture, and American Literary Manhood
    Author: Gilmore, Paul
    Published: [2001]; © 2001
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham

    In The Genuine Article Paul Gilmore examines the interdependence of literary and mass culture at a crucial moment in U. S. history. Demonstrating from a new perspective the centrality of race to the construction of white manhood across class lines,... more

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    In The Genuine Article Paul Gilmore examines the interdependence of literary and mass culture at a crucial moment in U. S. history. Demonstrating from a new perspective the centrality of race to the construction of white manhood across class lines, Gilmore argues that in the years before the Civil War, as literature increasingly became another commodity in the capitalist cultural marketplace, American authors appropriated middle-brow and racially loaded cultural forms to bolster their masculinity.From characters in Indian melodramas and minstrel shows to exhibits in popular museums and daguerrotype galleries, primitive racialized figures circulated as "the genuine article" of manliness in the antebellum United States. Gilmore argues that these figures were manipulated, translated, and adopted not only by canonical authors such as Hawthorne, Thoreau, Cooper, and Melville but also by African American and Native American writers like William Wells Brown and Okah Tubbee. By examining how these cultural notions of race played out in literary texts and helped to construct authorship as a masculine profession, Gilmore makes a unique contribution to theories of class formation in nineteenth-century America.The Genuine Article will enrich students and scholars of American studies, gender studies, literature, history, sociology, anthropology, popular culture, and race

     
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    ISBN: 9780822380313
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    Series: New Americanists
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; American literature; American literature; Masculinity in literature; Masculinity; Men in literature; Men; Men; Popular culture; Race awareness in literature; Race awareness; Race in literature
    Scope: 1 online resource (285 pages), 11 illustrations
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  7. Raising the Dead
    Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity
    Author: Holland, Sharon Patricia
    Published: [2000]; © 2000
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham

    Raising the Dead is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary exploration of death's relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Sharon Patricia Holland contends that black subjectivity in particular is connected... more

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    Raising the Dead is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary exploration of death's relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Sharon Patricia Holland contends that black subjectivity in particular is connected intimately to death. For Holland, travelling through "the space of death" gives us, as cultural readers, a nuanced and appropriate metaphor for understanding what is at stake when bodies, discourses, and communities collide.Holland argues that the presence of blacks, Native Americans, women, queers, and other "minorities" in society is, like death, "almost unspeakable." She gives voice to-or raises-the dead through her examination of works such as the movie Menace II Society, Toni Morrison's novel Beloved, Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead, Randall Kenan's A Visitation of Spirits, and the work of the all-white, male, feminist hip-hop band Consolidated. In challenging established methods of literary investigation by putting often-disparate voices in dialogue with each other, Holland forges connections among African-American literature and culture, queer and feminist theory.Raising the Dead will be of interest to students and scholars of American culture, African-American literature, literary theory, gender studies, queer theory, and cultural studies

     
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    ISBN: 9780822380382
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    Series: New Americanists
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African-American; African Americans in literature; American fiction; American literature; Death in literature; Death; Feminism and literature; Homosexuality and literature; Marginality, Social, in literature; Performing arts; Subjectivity in literature
    Scope: 1 online resource (248 pages), 2 b&w photographs
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  8. Negative Liberties
    Morrison, Pynchon, and the Problem of Liberal Ideology
    Author: Patell, Cyrus R. K.
    Published: [2001]; © 2001
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham

    Since the nineteenth century, ideas centered on the individual, on Emersonian self-reliance, and on the right of the individual to the pursuit of happiness have had a tremendous presence in the United States-and even more so after the Reagan era. But... more

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    Since the nineteenth century, ideas centered on the individual, on Emersonian self-reliance, and on the right of the individual to the pursuit of happiness have had a tremendous presence in the United States-and even more so after the Reagan era. But has this presence been for the good of all? In Negative Liberties Cyrus R. K. Patell revises important ideas in the debate about individualism and the political theory of liberalism. He does so by adding two new voices to the current discussion-Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon-to examine the different ways in which their writings embody, engage, and critique the official narrative generated by U.S. liberal ideology.Pynchon and Morrison reveal the official narrative of individualism as encompassing a complex structure of contradiction held in abeyance. This narrative imagines that the goals of the individual are not at odds with the goals of the family or society and in fact obscures the existence of an unholy truce between individual liberty and forms of oppression. By bringing these two fiction writers into a discourse dominated by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Isaiah Berlin, John Rawls, George Kateb, Robert Bellah, and Michael Sandel, Patell unmasks the ways in which contemporary U.S. culture has not fully shed the oppressive patterns of reasoning handed down by the slaveholding culture from which American individualism emerged.With its interdisciplinary approach, Negative Liberties will appeal to students and scholars of American literature, culture, sociology, and politics

     
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    ISBN: 9780822380672
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    Series: New Americanists
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; American fiction; Individualism in literature; Liberalism in literature; Liberty in literature; Political fiction, American; Politics and literature
    Scope: 1 online resource (264 pages)
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  9. Crossing the Line
    Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture
    Author: Wald, Gayle
    Published: [2000]; © 2000
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham

    As W. E. B. DuBois famously prophesied in The Souls of Black Folk, the fiction of the color line has been of urgent concern in defining a certain twentieth-century U.S. racial "order." Yet the very arbitrariness of this line also gives rise to... more

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    As W. E. B. DuBois famously prophesied in The Souls of Black Folk, the fiction of the color line has been of urgent concern in defining a certain twentieth-century U.S. racial "order." Yet the very arbitrariness of this line also gives rise to opportunities for racial "passing," a practice through which subjects appropriate the terms of racial discourse. To erode race's authority, Gayle Wald argues, we must understand how race defines and yet fails to represent identity. She thus uses cultural narratives of passing to illuminate both the contradictions of race and the deployment of such contradictions for a variety of needs, interests, and desires.Wald begins her reading of twentieth-century passing narratives by analyzing works by African American writers James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Fauset, and Nella Larsen, showing how they use the "passing plot" to explore the negotiation of identity, agency, and freedom within the context of their protagonists' restricted choices. She then examines the 1946 autobiography Really the Blues, which details the transformation of Milton Mesirow, middle-class son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, into Mezz Mezzrow, jazz musician and self-described "voluntary Negro." Turning to the 1949 films Pinky andLost Boundaries, which imagine African American citizenship within class-specific protocols of race and gender, she interrogates the complicated representation of racial passing in a visual medium. Her investigation of "post-passing" testimonials in postwar African American magazines, which strove to foster black consumerism while constructing "positive" images of black achievement and affluence in the postwar years, focuses on neglected texts within the archives of black popular culture. Finally, after a look at liberal contradictions of John Howard Griffin's 1961 auto-ethnography Black Like Me, Wald concludes with an epilogue that considers the idea of passing in the context of the recent discourse of "color blindness."Wald's analysis of the moral, political, and theoretical dimensions of racial passing makes Crossing the Line important reading as we approach the twenty-first century. Her engaging and dynamic book will be of particular interest to scholars of American studies, African American studies, cultural studies, and literary criticism

     
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    ISBN: 9780822380924
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    Series: New Americanists
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African-American; African Americans in literature; African Americans; American prose literature; American prose literature; Group identity in literature; Passing (Identity) in literature; Passing (Identity); Race in literature; Racially mixed people in literature
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  10. Assimilating Asians
    Gendered Strategies of Authorship in Asian America
    Author: Chu, Patricia P.
    Published: [2000]; © 2000
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham

    One of the central tasks of Asian American literature, argues Patricia P. Chu, has been to construct Asian American identities in the face of existing, and often contradictory, ideas about what it means to be an American. Chu examines the model of... more

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    One of the central tasks of Asian American literature, argues Patricia P. Chu, has been to construct Asian American identities in the face of existing, and often contradictory, ideas about what it means to be an American. Chu examines the model of the Anglo-American bildungsroman and shows how Asian American writers have adapted it to express their troubled and unstable position in the United States. By aligning themselves with U.S. democratic ideals while also questioning the historical realities of exclusion, internment, and discrimination, Asian American authors, contends Chu, do two kinds of ideological work: they claim Americanness for Asian Americans, and they create accounts of Asian ethnicity that deploy their specific cultures and histories to challenge established notions of Americanness.Chu further demonstrates that Asian American male and female writers engage different strategies in the struggle to adapt, reflecting their particular, gender-based relationships to immigration, work, and cultural representation. While offering fresh perspectives on the well-known writings-both fiction and memoir-of Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Bharati Mukherjee, Frank Chin, and David Mura, Assimilating Asians also provides new insight into the work of less recognized but nevertheless important writers like Carlos Bulosan, Edith Eaton, Younghill Kang, Milton Murayama, and John Okada. As she explores this expansive range of texts-published over the course of the last century by authors of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, and Indian origin or descent-Chu is able to illuminate her argument by linking it to key historical and cultural events.Assimilating Asians makes an important contribution to the fields of Asian American, American, and women's studies. Scholars of Asian American literature and culture, as well as of ethnicity and assimilation, will find particular interest and value in this book

     
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    ISBN: 9780822381358
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    Series: New Americanists
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Asian American; American literature; American literature; Asian American women in literature; Asian American women; Asian Americans in literature; Assimilation (Sociology) in literature; Authorship; Bildungsromans, American; Group identity in literature; National characteristics, American, in literature; Women and literature
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  11. Virtual Americas
    Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary
    Author: Giles, Paul
    Published: [2002]; © 2002
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham

    Arguing that limited nationalist perspectives have circumscribed the critical scope of American Studies scholarship, Virtual Americas advocates a comparative criticism that illuminates the work of well-known literary figures by defamiliarizing... more

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    Arguing that limited nationalist perspectives have circumscribed the critical scope of American Studies scholarship, Virtual Americas advocates a comparative criticism that illuminates the work of well-known literary figures by defamiliarizing it-placing it in unfamiliar contexts. Paul Giles looks at a number of canonical nineteenth- and twentieth-century American writers by focusing on their interactions with British culture. He demonstrates how American authors from Herman Melville to Thomas Pynchon have been compulsively drawn to negotiate with British culture so that their nationalist agendas have emerged, paradoxically, through transatlantic dialogues. Virtual Americas ultimately suggests that conceptions of national identity in both the United States and Britain have emerged through engagement with-and, often, deliberate exclusion of-ideas and imagery emanating from across the Atlantic.Throughout Virtual Americas Giles focuses on specific examples of transatlantic cultural interactions such as Frederick Douglass's experiences and reputation in England; Herman Melville's satirizing fictions of U.S. and British nationalism; and Vladimir Nabokov's critique of European high culture and American popular culture in Lolita. He also reverses his perspective, looking at the representation of San Francisco in the work of British-born poet Thom Gunn and Sylvia Plath's poetic responses to England. Giles develops his theory about the need to defamiliarize the study of American literature by considering the cultural legacy of Surrealism as an alternative genealogy for American Studies and by examining the transatlantic dimensions of writers such as Henry James and Robert Frost in the context of Surrealism

     
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; American literature; Americans; Comparative literature; Comparative literature; National characteristics, American, in literature; Nationalism and literature
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  12. Reconstituting the American Renaissance
    Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation
    Author: Grossman, Jay
    Published: [2003]; © 2003
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham

    Challenging the standard periodization of American literary history, Reconstituting the American Renaissance reinterprets the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman and the relationship of these two authors to each other. Jay Grossman argues... more

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    Challenging the standard periodization of American literary history, Reconstituting the American Renaissance reinterprets the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman and the relationship of these two authors to each other. Jay Grossman argues that issues of political representation-involving vexed questions of who shall speak and for whom-lie at the heart of American political and literary discourse from the revolutionary era through the Civil War. By taking the mid-nineteenth-century period, traditionally understood as marking the advent of literary writing in the United States, and restoring to it the ways in which Emerson and Whitman engaged with eighteenth-century controversies, rhetorics, and languages about political representation, Grossman departs significantly from arguments that have traditionally separated American writing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Reconstituting the American Renaissance describes how Emerson and Whitman came into the period of their greatest productivity with different conceptions of the functions and political efficacy of the word in the world. It challenges Emerson's position as Whitman's necessary precursor and offers a cultural history that emphasizes the two writers' differences in social class, cultural experience, and political perspective. In their writings between 1830 and 1855, the book finds contrasting conceptions of the relations between the "representative man" and the constituencies to whom, and for whom, he speaks. Reconstituting the American Renaissance opens up the canonical relationship between Emerson and Whitman and multiplies the historical and discursive contexts for understanding their published and unpublished works

     
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; American literature; Politics and literature; Representative government and representation in literature; Representative government and representation
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  13. Empire Burlesque
    The Fate of Critical Culture in Global America
    Author: O'Hara, Daniel T.
    Published: [2003]; © 2003
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham

    Empire Burlesque traces the emergence of the contemporary global context within which American critical identity is formed. Daniel T. O'Hara argues that globalization has had a markedly negative impact on American cultural criticism, circumscribing... more

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    Empire Burlesque traces the emergence of the contemporary global context within which American critical identity is formed. Daniel T. O'Hara argues that globalization has had a markedly negative impact on American cultural criticism, circumscribing both its material and imaginative potential, reducing much of it to absurdity. By highlighting the spectacle of its own self-parody, O'Hara aims to shock U.S. cultural criticism back into a sense of ethical responsibility.Empire Burlesque presents several interrelated analyses through readings of a range of writers and cultural figures including Henry James, Freud, Said, De Man, Derrida, and Cordwainer Smith (an academic, spy, and classic 1950s and 1960s science fiction writer). It describes the debilitating effects of globalization on the university in general and the field of literary studies in particular, it critiques literary studies' embrace of globalization theory in the name of a blind and vacant modernization, and it meditates on the ways critical reading and writing can facilitate an imaginative alternative to institutionalized practices of modernization. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalytical theory, it diagnoses contemporary American Studies as typically driven by the mindless abjection and transference of professional identities.A provocative commentary on contemporary cultural criticism, Empire Burlesque will inform debates on the American university across the humanities, particularly among those in literary criticism, cultural studies, and American studies

     
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    Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; American literature; Criticism; Journalism; Literature; Mass media and culture
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  14. Clear Word and Third Sight
    Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in African Caribbean Writing
    Author: John, Catherine
    Published: [2003]; © 2003
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham

    Clear Word and Third Sight examines the strands of a collective African diasporic consciousness represented in the work of a number of Black Caribbean writers. Catherine A. John shows how a shared consciousness, or "third sight," is rooted in both... more

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    Clear Word and Third Sight examines the strands of a collective African diasporic consciousness represented in the work of a number of Black Caribbean writers. Catherine A. John shows how a shared consciousness, or "third sight," is rooted in both pre- and postcolonial cultural practices and disseminated through a rich oral tradition. This consciousness has served diasporic communities by creating an alternate philosophical "worldsense" linking those of African descent across space and time.Contesting popular discourses about what constitutes culture and maintaining that neglected strains in negritude discourse provide a crucial philosophical perspective on the connections between folk practices, cultural memory, and collective consciousness, John examines the diasporic principles in the work of the negritude writers Léon Damas, Aimé Césaire, and Léopold Senghor. She traces the manifestations and reworkings of their ideas in Afro-Caribbean writing from the eastern and French Caribbean, as well as the Caribbean diaspora in the United States. The authors she discusses include Jamaica Kincaid, Earl Lovelace, Simone Schwarz-Bart, Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, and Edouard Glissant, among others. John argues that by incorporating what she calls folk groundings-such as poems, folktales, proverbs, and songs-into their work, Afro-Caribbean writers invoke a psychospiritual consciousness which combines old and new strategies for addressing the ongoing postcolonial struggle

     
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American; African literature; Blacks in literature; Caribbean literature (English); Caribbean literature (English); Caribbean literature (French); Caribbean literature (French); Folklore in literature; Folklore; Literature and folklore
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  15. The new American exceptionalism
    Author: Pease, Donald E.
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Univ. of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis [u.a.]

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    ISBN: 978-0-8166-2782-0
    Series: Critical American studies series
    Subjects: USA; Nationalcharakter
    Scope: XI, 246 S.
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    Introduction: the United States of fantasy -- Staging the new world order: Hiroshima, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and the Persian Gulf War -- America of the two covenants: the Waco siege and the Oklahoma City bombing -- A national rite of passage: the return of Alexis de Tocqueville -- Patriot acts: the Southernification of America -- From virgin land to ground zero: mythological foundations of the homeland security state -- Antigone's kin: from Abu Ghraib to Barack Obama
  16. The Assassination Bureau Ltd.
    Author: London, Jack
    Published: 1994
    Publisher:  Penguin Books, New York, NY

    London’s suspense thriller focuses on the fine distinction between state- justified murder and criminal violence in the Assassination Bureau—an organization whose mandate is to rid the state of all its enemies. The Assasssination Bureau kills people... more

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    London’s suspense thriller focuses on the fine distinction between state- justified murder and criminal violence in the Assassination Bureau—an organization whose mandate is to rid the state of all its enemies. The Assasssination Bureau kills people for cash, but it also has a social conscience. The leader of the Bureaujustifies these murders as to the social good - until he accepts a contract on himself. Truly in Jack London fashionnit is not to be outdone even in these modern days - enough said.

     
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    ISBN: 0140186778; 9780140186772
    RVK Categories: HU 4283
    Series: Penguin twentieth-century classics
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    Subjects: Fiction, General
    Scope: xxxvi, 164 Seiten
  17. National identities and postnational narratives
    Contributor: Pease, Donald E. (Hrsg.)
    Published: 1992
    Publisher:  Duke Univ. Press, Durham, NC

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    Series: New Americanists / Donald E. Pease, special issue ed. ; 2
    Boundary 2 ; Vol. 19, No. 1 : Special issue
    Subjects: Globalisierung; Nationalbewusstsein; Literatur
    Scope: 263 S.
  18. Revisonary interventions into the Americanist canon
    Contributor: Pease, Donald E. (Hrsg.)
    Published: 1994
    Publisher:  Duke Univ. Press, Durham [u.a.]

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    ISBN: 0822314932; 0822314789
    RVK Categories: HR 1459
    Scope: VIII, 342 S.
  19. Revisionist interventions into the canon
    Author: Pease, Donald E.
    Published: 1990
    Publisher:  Duke Univ. Press, Durham [u.a.]

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    Series: New Americanists / Donald E. Pease, special issue ed. ; 1
    Boundary 2 ; Vol. 17, No. 1 : Special issue
    Subjects: Literatur; Kanon
    Scope: 342 S.
  20. New essays on The rise of Silas Lapham
    Contributor: Pease, Donald E. (Hrsg.); Howell, William D.
    Published: 1991
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.a.]

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    ISBN: 0521373115; 0521378982
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    Series: The American novel
    Other subjects: Howells, William Dean (1837-1920): The rise of Silas Lapham
    Scope: VIII, 132 S.
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  21. National identities and post-americanist narratives
    Contributor: Pease, Donald E. (Hrsg.)
    Published: 1994
    Publisher:  Duke Univ. Press, Durham, NC [u.a.]

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    ISBN: 0822314770; 0822314924
    RVK Categories: HU 1811
    Series: New Americanists
    Subjects: Postmoderne; Literatur
    Scope: VIII, 326 S., Ill.
  22. A New Literary History of America
    Contributor: Ackerman, Alan; Albright, Daniel; Alexander, Elizabeth; Amfreville, Marc; Aparicio, Frances R.; Arac, Jonathan; Armstrong, Nancy; Beard, William; Bernstein, Richard J.; Blaise, Clark; Blight, David; Boyden, Michael; Bradley, Adam; Bradley, David; Bramen, Carrie Tirado; Brooks, Daphne A.; Brooks, Lisa; Brophy, Alfred L.; Buell, Lawrence; Bui, Thi Phuong-Lan; Burt, Stephen; Bynum, Sarah Shun-Lien; Cagidemetrio, Alide; Cantwell, Robert; Cantú, Norma E.; Carpio, Glenda; Castillo, Susan; Chaplin, Joyce E.; Chu, Seo-Young; Clark, Robert; Clark, T. J.; Clover, Joshua; Codrescu, Andrei; Conant, James; Costello, Bonnie; Damrosch, Leo; Dawes, James; Deloria, Philip; Diggins, John; Dilworth, Leah; Dimock, Wai Chee; Doss, Erika; Dubois, Laurent; Early, Gerald; Elliott, Emory; Erickson, Steve; Feller, Dan; Ferguson, Jeffrey; Fletcher, Angus; Fluck, Winfried; Ford, Mark; Fossett, Judith Jackson; Foster, Hal; Friedl, Herwig; Furia, Philip; Furstenberg, François; Gaitskill, Mary; Gaudio, Michael; Ghamari-Tabrizi, Sharon; Gilmore, Michael T.; Gioia, Ted; Gitelman, Lisa; Givens, Terryl L.; Glover, Kaiama; Goldsby, Jacqueline; Goodheart, Adam; Gottlieb, Robert; Grafton, Anthony; Griffin, Farah Jasmine; Gruesz, Kirsten Silva; Hamilton, Marybeth; Hampton, Howard; Hartman, Saidiya V.; Hickey, Dave; Hookway, Christopher; Hsu, Hua; Hutchinson, George; Hutson, Richard; Irmscher, Christoph; J., S.; Jarab, Josef; Jen, Gish; Johnson, Dianne; Johnson, Jeffrey; Kahn, Coppélia; Kamiya, Gary; Kaplan, Amy; Kaplan, Carla; Kazin, Michael; Kelleter, Frank; Kelsey, Robin; Kennedy, Liam; Keyser, Catherine; Kimmage, Michael; Kosman, Phoebe; LaFountain, Jason D.; Lears, T. J. Jackson; Leja, Michael; Lester, Toby; Lesy, Michael; Lethem, Jonathan; Lewis, Jan Ellen; Lhamon Jr., W. T.; Love, Heather; Lowry, Beverly; Lyons, Scott Richard; MacCambridge, Michael; Mann, William J.; Marcus, Greil; Marcus, Greil; Marling, Karal Ann; Marlowe, Ann; Materassi, Mario; McBride, Joseph; McGrath, Douglas; McLane, Maureen N.; Meltzer, Mitchell; Miller, Angela; Miller, James; Miller, Monica L.; Millner, Caille; Mindell, David A.; Monson, Ingrid; Moran, Kathleen; Mosley, Walter; Most, Andrea; Mukherjee, Bharati; Muldoon, Paul; Nel, Philip; O’Meally, Robert; Paglia, Camille; Pasley, Jeffrey L.; Patterson, Anita; Pease, Donald E.; Perez, Gilberto; Picker, John; Polito, Robert; Porter, Carolyn; Posnock, Ross; Powers, Richard; Quinney, Laura; Rabinowitz, Paula; Raines, Howell; Rampersad, Arnold; Reed, Ishmael; Richardson, Judith; Rockwell, John; Roeder, Kerry; Ronell, Avital; Rosen, Jeffrey; Rotella, Carlo; Rubin, Joan Shelley; Sacks, Peter; Samuels, Shirley; Sante, Luc; Schacher, Yael; Schickel, Richard; Schiff, Stephen; Shelby, Tommie; Slovic, Scott; Smith, Merritt Roe; Smith, R. J.; Smith, Richard Cándida; Sollors, Werner; Sollors, Werner; Staudenmaier, John M.; Stauffer, John; Stavans, Ilan; Stewart, Susan; Streeby, Shelley; Sunstein, Cass R.; Taubenfeld, Aviva; Taylor, Charles; Taylor, Keith; Thomson, David; Tolkin, Michael; Tran, Lan; Treuer, David; Treuer, Micah; Vendler, Helen; Ventura, Michael; Vowell, Sarah; Wagner, Anne M.; Walker, Kara; Wall, Cheryl A.; Wallach, Alan; Warren, Kenneth W.; Waters, Lindsay; Weinstein, Cindy; Weiss, M. Lynn; Wexler, Laura; Whiting, Sarah; Wideman, John Edgar; Widmer, Ted; Wilentz, Sean; Wilson, Rob; Wiman, Christian; Winthrop, Elizabeth; Wirth-Nesher, Hana; Wisse, Ruth; Wolk, Douglas; Woude, Joanne van der; Zacharek, Stephanie; Zafar, Rafia
    Published: [2012]; ©2012
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA ; Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin

    America is a nation making itself up as it goes along—a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing... more

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    America is a nation making itself up as it goes along—a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and editors of this volume find a new American history. In more than two hundred original essays, A New Literary History of America brings together the nation’s many voices. From the first conception of a New World in the sixteenth century to the latest re-envisioning of that world in cartoons, television, science fiction, and hip hop, the book gives us a new, kaleidoscopic view of what “Made in America” means. Literature, music, film, art, history, science, philosophy, political rhetoric—cultural creations of every kind appear in relation to each other, and to the time and place that give them shape. The meeting of minds is extraordinary as T. J. Clark writes on Jackson Pollock, Paul Muldoon on Carl Sandburg, Camille Paglia on Tennessee Williams, Sarah Vowell on Grant Wood’s American Gothic, Walter Mosley on hard-boiled detective fiction, Jonathan Lethem on Thomas Edison, Gerald Early on Tarzan, Bharati Mukherjee on The Scarlet Letter, Gish Jen on Catcher in the Rye, and Ishmael Reed on Huckleberry Finn. From Anne Bradstreet and John Winthrop to Philip Roth and Toni Morrison, from Alexander Graham Bell and Stephen Foster to Alcoholics Anonymous, Life, Chuck Berry, Alfred Hitchcock, and Ronald Reagan, this is America singing, celebrating itself, and becoming something altogether different, plural, singular, new. Please visit www.newliteraryhistory.com for more information.

     
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    Contributor: Ackerman, Alan; Albright, Daniel; Alexander, Elizabeth; Amfreville, Marc; Aparicio, Frances R.; Arac, Jonathan; Armstrong, Nancy; Beard, William; Bernstein, Richard J.; Blaise, Clark; Blight, David; Boyden, Michael; Bradley, Adam; Bradley, David; Bramen, Carrie Tirado; Brooks, Daphne A.; Brooks, Lisa; Brophy, Alfred L.; Buell, Lawrence; Bui, Thi Phuong-Lan; Burt, Stephen; Bynum, Sarah Shun-Lien; Cagidemetrio, Alide; Cantwell, Robert; Cantú, Norma E.; Carpio, Glenda; Castillo, Susan; Chaplin, Joyce E.; Chu, Seo-Young; Clark, Robert; Clark, T. J.; Clover, Joshua; Codrescu, Andrei; Conant, James; Costello, Bonnie; Damrosch, Leo; Dawes, James; Deloria, Philip; Diggins, John; Dilworth, Leah; Dimock, Wai Chee; Doss, Erika; Dubois, Laurent; Early, Gerald; Elliott, Emory; Erickson, Steve; Feller, Dan; Ferguson, Jeffrey; Fletcher, Angus; Fluck, Winfried; Ford, Mark; Fossett, Judith Jackson; Foster, Hal; Friedl, Herwig; Furia, Philip; Furstenberg, François; Gaitskill, Mary; Gaudio, Michael; Ghamari-Tabrizi, Sharon; Gilmore, Michael T.; Gioia, Ted; Gitelman, Lisa; Givens, Terryl L.; Glover, Kaiama; Goldsby, Jacqueline; Goodheart, Adam; Gottlieb, Robert; Grafton, Anthony; Griffin, Farah Jasmine; Gruesz, Kirsten Silva; Hamilton, Marybeth; Hampton, Howard; Hartman, Saidiya V.; Hickey, Dave; Hookway, Christopher; Hsu, Hua; Hutchinson, George; Hutson, Richard; Irmscher, Christoph; J., S.; Jarab, Josef; Jen, Gish; Johnson, Dianne; Johnson, Jeffrey; Kahn, Coppélia; Kamiya, Gary; Kaplan, Amy; Kaplan, Carla; Kazin, Michael; Kelleter, Frank; Kelsey, Robin; Kennedy, Liam; Keyser, Catherine; Kimmage, Michael; Kosman, Phoebe; LaFountain, Jason D.; Lears, T. J. Jackson; Leja, Michael; Lester, Toby; Lesy, Michael; Lethem, Jonathan; Lewis, Jan Ellen; Lhamon Jr., W. T.; Love, Heather; Lowry, Beverly; Lyons, Scott Richard; MacCambridge, Michael; Mann, William J.; Marcus, Greil; Marcus, Greil; Marling, Karal Ann; Marlowe, Ann; Materassi, Mario; McBride, Joseph; McGrath, Douglas; McLane, Maureen N.; Meltzer, Mitchell; Miller, Angela; Miller, James; Miller, Monica L.; Millner, Caille; Mindell, David A.; Monson, Ingrid; Moran, Kathleen; Mosley, Walter; Most, Andrea; Mukherjee, Bharati; Muldoon, Paul; Nel, Philip; O’Meally, Robert; Paglia, Camille; Pasley, Jeffrey L.; Patterson, Anita; Pease, Donald E.; Perez, Gilberto; Picker, John; Polito, Robert; Porter, Carolyn; Posnock, Ross; Powers, Richard; Quinney, Laura; Rabinowitz, Paula; Raines, Howell; Rampersad, Arnold; Reed, Ishmael; Richardson, Judith; Rockwell, John; Roeder, Kerry; Ronell, Avital; Rosen, Jeffrey; Rotella, Carlo; Rubin, Joan Shelley; Sacks, Peter; Samuels, Shirley; Sante, Luc; Schacher, Yael; Schickel, Richard; Schiff, Stephen; Shelby, Tommie; Slovic, Scott; Smith, Merritt Roe; Smith, R. J.; Smith, Richard Cándida; Sollors, Werner; Sollors, Werner; Staudenmaier, John M.; Stauffer, John; Stavans, Ilan; Stewart, Susan; Streeby, Shelley; Sunstein, Cass R.; Taubenfeld, Aviva; Taylor, Charles; Taylor, Keith; Thomson, David; Tolkin, Michael; Tran, Lan; Treuer, David; Treuer, Micah; Vendler, Helen; Ventura, Michael; Vowell, Sarah; Wagner, Anne M.; Walker, Kara; Wall, Cheryl A.; Wallach, Alan; Warren, Kenneth W.; Waters, Lindsay; Weinstein, Cindy; Weiss, M. Lynn; Wexler, Laura; Whiting, Sarah; Wideman, John Edgar; Widmer, Ted; Wilentz, Sean; Wilson, Rob; Wiman, Christian; Winthrop, Elizabeth; Wirth-Nesher, Hana; Wisse, Ruth; Wolk, Douglas; Woude, Joanne van der; Zacharek, Stephanie; Zafar, Rafia
    Language: English
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    Subjects: American literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (1128 p.)
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  23. Clear Word and Third Sight
    Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in African Caribbean Writing
    Author: John, Catherine A.
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    An exploration of the implicit and explicit ways that an alternate African diasporic consciousness, grounded in folk mores, is expressed in Afro-Caribbean writing. more

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    An exploration of the implicit and explicit ways that an alternate African diasporic consciousness, grounded in folk mores, is expressed in Afro-Caribbean writing.

     
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    Contributor: Pease, Donald E.
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780822385097
    RVK Categories: HQ 7023
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series: New Americanists Ser.
    Subjects: Literatur; Schwarze; Ethnische Identität; Diaspora <Religion, Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (255 pages)
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  24. Around Quitting Time
    Work and Middle-Class Fantasy in American Fiction
    Author: Seguin, Robert
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, North Carolina ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Posits social class as the American political unconscious, showing (in an analysis of 19th and 20th century novels) how class exerts pressure on the American cultural imagination, and claiming that what is desired is ultimately the liberation from... more

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    Posits social class as the American political unconscious, showing (in an analysis of 19th and 20th century novels) how class exerts pressure on the American cultural imagination, and claiming that what is desired is ultimately the liberation from work.

     
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    Contributor: Pease, Donald E.
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780822380818
    RVK Categories: HU 1691 ; HU 1819
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series: New Americanists Ser.
    Subjects: Literatur; Mittelstand <Motiv>; Arbeit <Motiv>; Class consciousness in literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (222 pages)
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  25. From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park
    Activism, Culture, and American Studies
    Author: Lauter, Paul
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, North Carolina ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Explores the changes that have occurred in the field of American Studies over the past 40 years. more

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    Explores the changes that have occurred in the field of American Studies over the past 40 years.

     
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    Contributor: Pease, Donald E.
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780822380474
    RVK Categories: HD 370 ; HR 1010
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series: New Americanists Ser.
    Subjects: Literatur; Kultur; Amerikanistik; United States - Study and teaching - Political aspects - History - 20th century
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (298 pages)
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