Resources for American Literary Study

Resources for American Literary Study

Author: Jackson R. Bryer

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780404646288

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Founded in 1971, this resource continues to serve as a key venue for archival scholarship and bibliographical analysis in American literature. It features the series Prospects, which offers expert recommendations for the future study of American authors.


American Literary Studies

American Literary Studies

Author: Michael A. Elliott

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0814722164

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Leading scholars discuss strategies and methodology in American literary studies.


The New Jewish American Literary Studies

The New Jewish American Literary Studies

Author: Victoria Aarons

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-04-18

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 110842628X

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Introduces readers to the new perspectives, approaches and interpretive possibilities in Jewish American literature that emerged in the twenty-first Century.


A Companion to American Literary Studies

A Companion to American Literary Studies

Author: Caroline F. Levander

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-09-09

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 1444343785

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A Companion to American Literary Studies addresses the most provocative questions, subjects, and issues animating the field. Essays provide readers with the knowledge and conceptual tools for understanding American literary studies as it is practiced today, and chart new directions for the future of the subject. Offers up-to-date accounts of major new critical approaches to American literary studies Presents state-of-the-art essays on a full range of topics central to the field Essays explore critical and institutional genealogies of the field, increasingly diverse conceptions of American literary study, and unprecedented material changes such as the digital revolution A unique anthology in the field, and an essential resource for libraries, faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates


Unsettled States

Unsettled States

Author: Dana Luciano

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2014-08-15

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1479889326

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In Unsettled States, Dana Luciano and Ivy G. Wilson present some of the most exciting emergent scholarship in American literary and cultural studies of the “long” nineteenth century. Featuring eleven essays from senior scholars across the discipline, the book responds to recent critical challenges to the boundaries, both spatial and temporal, that have traditionally organized scholarship within the field. The volume considers these recent challenges to be aftershocks of earlier revolutions in content and method, and it seeks ways of inhabiting and amplifying the ongoing unsettledness of the field. Written by scholars primarily working in the “minor” fields of critical race and ethnic studies, feminist and gender studies, labor studies, and queer/sexuality studies, the essays share a minoritarian critical orientation. Minoritarian criticism, as an aesthetic, political, and ethical project, is dedicated to finding new connections and possibilities within extant frameworks. Unsettled States seeks to demonstrate how the goals of minoritarian critique may be actualized without automatic recourse to a predetermined “minor” location, subject, or critical approach. Its contributors work to develop practices of reading an “American literature” in motion, identifying nodes of inquiry attuned to the rhythms of a field that is always on the move.


African American Literary Theory

African American Literary Theory

Author: Winston Napier

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2000-07

Total Pages: 745

ISBN-13: 0814758096

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Fifty-one essays by writers such as Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, and Zora Neale Hurston, as well as critics and academics such as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. examine the central texts and arguments in African American literary theory from the 1920s through the present. Contributions are organized chronologically beginning with the rise of a black aesthetic criticism, through the Black Arts Movement, feminism, structuralism and poststructuralism, queer theory, and cultural studies. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR


Literary Indians

Literary Indians

Author: Angela Calcaterra

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2018-10-26

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1469646951

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Although cross-cultural encounter is often considered an economic or political matter, beauty, taste, and artistry were central to cultural exchange and political negotiation in early and nineteenth-century America. Part of a new wave of scholarship in early American studies that contextualizes American writing in Indigenous space, Literary Indians highlights the significance of Indigenous aesthetic practices to American literary production. Countering the prevailing notion of the "literary Indian" as a construct of the white American literary imagination, Angela Calcaterra reveals how Native people's pre-existing and evolving aesthetic practices influenced Anglo-American writing in precise ways. Indigenous aesthetics helped to establish borders and foster alliances that pushed against Anglo-American settlement practices and contributed to the discursive, divided, unfinished aspects of American letters. Focusing on tribal histories and Indigenous artistry, Calcaterra locates surprising connections and important distinctions between Native and Anglo-American literary aesthetics in a new history of early American encounter, identity, literature, and culture.


Afro-American Literary Study in the 1990s

Afro-American Literary Study in the 1990s

Author: Houston A. Baker (Jr.)

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1989-10-30

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780226035376

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Featuring the work of the most distinguished scholars in the field, this volume assesses the state of Afro-American literary study and projects a vision of that study for the 1990s. "A rich and rewarding collection."—Choice. "This diverse and inspired collection . . . testifies to the Afro-Am academy's extraordinary vitality."—Voice Literary Supplement


Asian American Literary Studies

Asian American Literary Studies

Author: Guiyou Huang

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 9781474469340

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This volume presents global perspectives on Asian American literature by accomplished scholars from Germany, Japan, Singapore, Spain, and the US. It covers a diverse range of interdisciplinary topics in contemporary Asian American Studies across a wide spectrum of ethnic groups.


Arab American Literary Fictions, Cultures, and Politics

Arab American Literary Fictions, Cultures, and Politics

Author: S. Salaita

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2006-12-25

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 0230603378

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N.B. this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title. Stock of this book requires shipment from overseas. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. Using literary and social analysis, this book examines a range of modern Arab American literary fiction and illustrates how socio-political phenomena have affected the development of the Arab American novel.