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Author: Joann Cerrito
Publisher: Saint James Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 490
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents critical excerpts and analyses from a variety of sources that combine to provide overviews of the work of 157 of the most significant authors of the modern period in American literature; arranged alphabetically, with bibliographies.
Author: Dorothy Nyren Curley
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 518
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA compilation of representative critical comments provides critical portraits of important late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century American writers, with bibliographies for all included authors.
Author: Joann Cerrito
Publisher: Saint James Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 528
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents critical excerpts and analyses from a variety of sources that combine to provide overviews of the work of 194 of the most significant authors of the modern period in American literature; arranged alphabetically, with bibliographies.
Author: José F. Aranda
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2022-02
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1496229894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848-1948, José F. Aranda Jr. describes the first one hundred years of Mexican American literature. He argues for the importance of interrogating the concept of modernity in light of what has emerged as a canon of earlier pre-1968 Mexican American literature. In order to understand modernity for diverse communities of Mexican Americans, he contends, one must see it as an apprehension, both symbolic and material, of one settler colonial world order giving way to another more powerful colonialist but imperial vision of North America. Letters, folklore, print culture, and literary production demonstrate how a new Anglo-American political imaginary revised and realigned centuries-old discourses on race, gender, class, religion, citizenship, power, and sovereignty. The "modern," Aranda argues, makes itself visible in cultural productions being foisted on a "conquered people," who were themselves beneficiaries of a notion of the modern that began in 1492. For Mexican Americans, modernity is less about any particular angst over global imperial designs or cultures of capitalism and more about becoming the subordinates of a nation-building project that ushers the United States into the twentieth century.
Author: Anna Lorraine Guthrie
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sau-ling Cynthia Wong
Publisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780873522717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn informative and original collection of twenty-five essays, the Resource Guide to Asian American Literature offers background materials for the study of this expanding discipline and suggests strategies and ideas for teaching well-known Asian American works. The volume focuses on fifteen novels and book-length prose narratives (among them Meena Alexander's Nampally Road, Louis Chu's Eat a Bowl of Tea, Monica Sone's Nisei Daughter, Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club) and six works of drama (including David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly). Each essay contains information about the work (e.g., its publication or production history), its popular and critical reception, a biographical sketch of the author, the historical context, major themes, critical issues, pedagogical topics, a list of comparative works, an assessment of resources, and a bibliography. The Resource Guide concludes with four essays that present themes and approaches for the study and teaching of short fiction, poetry, and panethnic anthologies. This volume provides a fresh look at what "Asian American literature" means and serves as an introduction to the study and teaching of this flourishing field. It is an essential collection for students, teachers, and scholars of all American literatures.
Author: OAKLEY C. JOHNSON
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 1294
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Judie Newman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-07-17
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1136774874
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the quest for/failure of Utopia across a range of contemporary American/transnational fictions in relation to terror and globalization through authors such as Susan Choi, André Dubus, Dalia Sofer, and John Updike. While recent critical thinkers have reengaged with Utopia, the possibility of terror — whether state or non-state, external or homegrown — shadows Utopian imaginings. Terror and Utopia are linked in fiction through the exploration of the commodification of affect, a phenomenon of a globalized world in which feelings are managed, homogenized across cultures, exaggerated, or expunged according to a dominant model. Narrative approaches to the terrorist offer a means to investigate the ways in which fiction can resist commodification of affect, and maintain a reasoned but imaginative vision of possibilities for human community. Newman explores topics such as the first American bestseller with a Muslim protagonist, the links between writer and terrorist, the work of Iranian-Jewish Americans, and the relation of race and religion to Utopian thought.
Author: Christopher Vials
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-12-28
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 1108548601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the aftermath of World War II, the United States emerged as the dominant imperial power, and in US popular memory, the Second World War is remembered more vividly than the American Revolution. American Literature in Transition, 1940–1950 provides crucial contexts for interpreting the literature of this period. Essays from scholars in literature, history, art history, ethnic studies, and American studies show how writers intervened in the global struggles of the decade: the Second World War, the Cold War, and emerging movements over racial justice, gender and sexuality, labor, and de-colonization. One recurrent motif is the centrality of the political impulse in art and culture. Artists and writers participated widely in left and liberal social movements that fundamentally transformed the terms of social life in the twentieth century, not by advocating specific legislation, but by changing underlying cultural values. This book addresses all the political impulses fueling art and literature at the time, as well as the development of new forms and media, from modernism and noir to radio and the paperback.
Author: University of Michigan. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Publisher: UM Libraries
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 316
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