Living with America, 1946-1996
Author: Peter G. Boyle
Publisher: Vu University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 350
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Author: Peter G. Boyle
Publisher: Vu University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 350
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Benjamin Schreier
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2020-09-18
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 0812297563
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBenjamin Schreier argues that Jewish American literature's dominant cliché of "breakthrough"—that is, the irruption into the heart of the American cultural scene during the 1950s of Jewish American writers like Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, and Grace Paley—must also be seen as the critically originary moment of Jewish American literary study. According to Schreier, this is the primal scene of the Jewish American literary field, the point that the field cannot avoid repeating and replaying in instantiating itself as the more or less formalized academic study of Jewish American literature. More than sixty years later, the field's legibility, the very condition of its possibility, remains overwhelmingly grounded in a reliance on this single ethnological narrative. In a polemic against what he sees as the unexamined foundations and stagnant state of the field, Schreier interrogates a series of professionally powerful assumptions about Jewish American literary history—how they came into being and how they hardened into cliché. He offers a critical genealogy of breakthrough and other narratives through which Jewish Studies has asserted its compelling self-evidence, not simply under the banner of the historical realities Jewish Studies claims to represent but more fundamentally for the intellectual and institutional structures through which it produces these representations. He shows how a historicist scholarly narrative quickly consolidated and became hegemonic, in part because of its double articulation of a particular American subject and of a transnational historiography that categorically identified that subject as Jewish. The ethnological grounding of the Jewish American literary field is no longer tenable, Schreier asserts, in an argument with broad implications for the reconceptualization of Jewish and other identity-based ethnic studies.
Author: Maria Lauret
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2014-09-25
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 162892165X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow do (im)migrant writers negotiate their representation of a multilingual world for a monolingual audience? Does their English betray the presence of another language, is that other language erased, or does it appear here and there, on special occasions for special reasons? Do words and meanings wander from one language and one self to another? Do the psychic and cultural worlds of different languages split apart or merge? What is the aesthetic effect of such wandering, splitting, or merging? Usually described as “code-switches” by linguists, fragments of other languages have wandered into American literature in English from the beginning. Wanderwords asks what, in the memoirs, poems, essays, and fiction of a variety of twentieth and twenty first century writers, the function and meaning of such language migration might be. It shows what there is to be gained if we learn to read migrant writing with an eye, and an ear, for linguistic difference and it concludes that, freighted with the other-cultural meanings wrapped up in their different looks and sounds, wanderwords can perform wonders of poetic signification as well as cultural critique. Bringing together literary and cultural theory with linguistics as well as the theory and history of migration, and with psychoanalysis for its understanding of the multilingual unconscious, Wanderwords engages closely with the work of well-known and unheard-of writers such as Mary Antin and Eva Hoffman, Richard Rodriguez and Junot Díaz, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Bharati Mukherjee, Edward Bok and Truus van Bruinessen, Susana Chávez-Silverman and Gustavo Perez-Firmat, Pietro DiDonato and Don DeLillo. In so doing, a poetics of multilingualism unfolds that stretches well beyond translation into the lingual contact zone of English-with-other-languages that is American literature, belatedly re-connecting with the world.
Author: Dietrich Rauschning
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1997-08-28
Total Pages: 630
ISBN-13: 9780521597043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKey resolutions from the first fifty years of the United Nations General Assembly.
Author: Frank Trommler
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9781571812902
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile Germans, the largest immigration group in the United States, contributed to the shaping of American society and left their mark on many areas from religion and education to food, farming, political and intellectual life, Americans have been instrumental in shaping German democracy after World War II. Both sides can claim to be part of each other's history, and yet the question arises whether this claim indicates more than a historical interlude in the forming of the Atlantic civilization. In this volume some of the leading historians, social scientists and literary scholars from both sides of the Atlantic have come together to investigate, for the first time in a broad interdisciplinary collaboration, the nexus of these interactions in view of current and future challenges to German-American relations.
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 462
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKArticle abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.
Author: Zoltan Kovecses
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2000-09-26
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1770484280
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a cultural-historical (rather than purely linguistic) introduction to American English. The first part consists of a general account of variation in American English. It offers concise but comprehensive coverage of such topics as the history of American English; regional, social and ethnic variation; variation in style (including slang); and British and American differences. The second part of the book puts forward an account of how American English has developed into a dominant variety of the English language. It focuses on the ways in which intellectual traditions such as puritanism and republicanism, in shaping the American world view, have also contributed to the distinctiveness of American English.
Author: Donald E. Pease
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2002-10-21
Total Pages: 636
ISBN-13: 9780822329657
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIVA state of the art portrait of the field of American studies--its interests and methodologies, its interactions with the social and cultural movements it describes and attempts to explain, and a compendium of likely directions the field will take in the f/div
Author: Mary F. Brewer
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2005-07-29
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780819567703
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow whiteness is portrayed in contemporary drama and enacted in everyday life.
Author: J. Colleran
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-08-16
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 1137006307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow has the media since the First Gulf War altered political analysis and how has this alteration has in turn affected socially-critical art? Colleran examines more than forty plays, many written in direct response to the 1991 war in Iraq as well as to the 9/11 attacks and the retaliatory actions in Iraq and Afghanistan.