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  • Literature, Modern 20th century  (23)
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  • 1
    ISBN: 9780190908386
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 389 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Andrews, William L., 1946- author Slavery and class in the American South
    DDC: 306.362097509034
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1840-1865 ; Slaves' writings, American History and criticism ; Slaves Biography History and criticism ; African Americans Biography ; History and criticism ; Slaves Social conditions 19th century ; Slavery History 19th century ; Soziale Situation ; Sklave ; Erzählung ; Schwarze ; USA Südstaaten ; USA Südstaaten ; Schwarze ; Sklave ; Soziale Situation ; Erzählung ; Geschichte 1840-1865
    Abstract: "In William L. Andrews's magisterial study of an entire generation of slave narrators, more than 60 mid-nineteenth-century narratives reveal how work, family, skills, and connections made for social and economic differences among the enslaved of the South. Slave narrators disclosed class-based reasons for violence that broke out between 'impudent,' 'gentleman,' and 'lady' slaves and their resentful "mean masters." Andrews's far-reaching book shows that status and class played key roles in the self- and social awareness and in the processes of liberation portrayed in the narratives of the most celebrated fugitives from U.S. slavery, such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, William Wells Brown, and William and Ellen Craft. Slavery and Class in the American South explains why social and economic distinctions developed and how they functioned among the enslaved. Noting that the majority of the slave narrators came from the higher echelons of the enslaved, Andrews also pays close attention to the narratives that have received the least notice from scholars, those from the most exploited class, the 'field hands.' By examining the lives of the most and least acclaimed heroes and heroines of the slave narrative, Andrews shows how the dividing edge of social class cut two ways, sometimes separating upper and lower strata of slaves to their enslavers' advantage, but at other times fueling pride, aspiration, and a sense of just deserts among some of the enslaved that could be satisfied by nothing less than complete freedom"...
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9783839446010
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Post_koloniale Medienwissenschaft 8
    Series Statement: Post-colonial media studies v. 8
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als We travel the space ways
    DDC: 000
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    Keywords: Afrofuturism ; African American art History and criticism ; Science fiction, African History and criticism ; Science fiction, American History and criticism ; American literature African American authors ; History and criticism ; African Americans Social conditions ; African diaspora ; Postcolonialism ; Art, African History and criticism ; Schwarze ; Identität ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies ; African diaspora ; Afrofuturism ; American literature ; African American authors ; Art, African ; Civilization ; Postcolonialism ; Science fiction, African ; Science fiction, American ; African Americans ; Social conditions ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; African American art ; Africa Civilization ; Amerika ; Africa ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Künste ; Afrofuturismus
    Abstract: 0. Constellation --Black Astrophysics: A Homemade Field of Love /Gumbs, Alexis Pauline --Lift Off... an Introduction /Lynch, Kara / Gunkel, Henriette --I. --City of Mirage /Henda, Kiluanji Kia --Reach, Robot: AfroFuturist Technologies /Coleman, Grisha / Defrantz, Thomas F. --Glitches Running Trains Out In Negrizonia, A Gynocidal Western /Tate, Greg --To Win the War, You Fought It Sideways: Kojo Laing's Major Gentl and the Achimota Wars /Eshun, Kodwo --Black Atlantis /Hameed, Ayesha --II. --The Palace of the Quilombos /Two Feathers, Frohawk --The Sound of Afrofuturism /Alisch, Stefanie / Maier, Carla J. --The Revolutionist /Haimbe, Milumbe --The Crypt of Blackness: or Assotto Saint with Gilles Deleuze /Nyong'O, Tavia --Rise of the Astro Blacks /Tate, Greg --III. --The Archivist's Vault :: Door Of No Return /Lynch, Kara --An Afrofuturist Time Capsule - One Point in Space-Time in the Collective Consciousness of Black Speculation /Dukan, M. Asli --Organize Your Own Temporality: Notes on Self-Determined Temporalities and Radical Futurities /Phillips, Rasheedah --"I Feel Love": Race, Gender, Technē, and the (Im)Proper Sonic Habitus /Keeling, Kara --Afrofuturism On My Mind: Imagining Black Lives in a Post-Obama World /Everett, Anna --IV. --Brother Kyot /Schrade, Daniel Kojo --Intervening into the Future Script: A Conversation about Fiction, Magic, and the Speculative Power of Images /Henda, Kiluanji Kia / Siegert, Nadine --Dismantle Imperia /Smith, Robyn --Textures of Time - Abstraction, Afronauts, and the Archive in the Artwork of Daniel Kojo Schrade /Nagl, Tobias --There Are Storytellers Everywhere /Gbadamosi, Raimi --V. --Prophetika /DeVille, Abigail --The Secessionist Manifestos of Certain Received Wisdoms /Akomfrah, John / Eshun, Kodwo --They Sent You? /Chuchu, Jim --Alienation and Queer Discontent /Gunkel, Henriette --FAR SPACE-WISE - Without Edges a Center Cannot Exist in Stasis /Ajalon, Jamika --VI. Final Orbit --Future /Phillips, Rasheedah
    Abstract: A new take on Afrofuturism, this book gathers together a range of contemporary voices who, carrying legacies of 500 years of contact between Africa, Europe, and the Americas, reach towards the stars and unknown planets, galaxies, and ways of being. Writing from queer and feminist perspectives and circumnavigating continents, they recalibrate definitions of Afrofuturism.The editors and contributors of this exciting volume thus reflect on the re-emergence of Black visions of political and cultural futures, proposing practices, identities, and collectivities
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  • 3
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    Urbana : University of Illinois Press | Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780252099939
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressourcece.
    Series Statement: The new black studies series
    DDC: 810.9/896073
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    Keywords: Literatur ; Schwarze ; Musik ; Jazz ; American literature African American authors ; History and criticism ; Jazz in literature ; Modernism (Literature) ; African Americans Music ; History and criticism ; Black nationalism History 20th century ; African Americans Social life and customs 20th century ; USA
    Abstract: 'Jazz Internationalism' argues for the critical significance of jazz in Afro-modernist literature, from the beginning of the Great Depression through the radical social movements of the 1960s.
    Note: Previously issued in print: 2017 , Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9783839440452
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (297 Seiten)
    Series Statement: American culture studies volume 22
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Heinze, Rüdiger, 1972 - Melting pots & mosaics
    DDC: 810.9920691
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    Keywords: American literature History and criticism ; Children of immigrants in literature ; Immigrants in literature ; Ethnic groups in literature ; Minorities in literature ; Immigrants' writings, American ; America Literatures ; USA ; Migrantenliteratur ; Kulturelle Identität ; Einwanderer ; Kind
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 277-297
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9783839436608
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (284 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: American culture studies volume 17
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Power relations in black lives
    DDC: 810.9/896073
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    Keywords: Bourdieu, Pierre ; Elias, Norbert ; American literature African American authors ; History and criticism ; African Americans Music ; History and criticism ; African Americans Politics and government ; Racism in literature ; Violence in literature ; Literature History and criticism ; Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Schwarze ; Literatur ; Kultur
    Abstract: According to relational sociology, power imbalances are at the root of human conflicts and consequently shape the physical and symbolic struggles between interdependent groups or individuals. This volume highlights the role of power relations in the African American experience by applying key concepts of Pierre Bourdieu and Norbert Elias to black literature and culture. The authors offer new readings of power asymmetries as represented in works of canonical and contemporary black writers (Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, Percival Everett, Colson Whitehead), rap music (e.g., Jay Z), images of black homelessness, and figurations of political activism (civil rights activist Bayard Rustin
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  • 6
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    New York : Basic Civitas
    ISBN: 9780465094400
    Language: English
    Pages: xl, 243 Seiten , Illustration
    Edition: Second edition
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 782.421649
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    Keywords: Rap ; Hip-Hop ; USA ; Rap (Music ; History and criticism ; Rap (Music) / History and criticism ; Rap (Music) / Texts ; USA ; Hip-Hop ; USA ; Rap
    Abstract: "Rap may be the most revolutionary development in poetry over the past forty years, yet its originality is hidden in plain sight. Often overshadowed by the beat, bluster, and hype surrounding the music, lyrics are the heart of hip hop. Book of Rhymes explores America's least-understood poets by unpacking their complex craft and according them the respect they deserve as lyricists. Examining the language and techniques of hip hop's most memorable artists, literary scholar Adam Bradley argues that a new world of rhythm and rhyme awaits us if we put aside preconceptions and encounter rap with new ears and new eyes. Updated to reflect nearly a decade of the genre's evolution, Book of Rhymes remains the definitive work on the poetry of hip hop"--Page 4 of cover
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  • 7
    ISBN: 9781477312087 , 9781477312070
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 261 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First edition
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    DDC: 398.2089/96073
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1930-1940 ; Gesellschaft ; Musik ; Schwarze. USA ; African Americans Folklore ; African Americans Race identity ; Sex role ; Popular music History and criticism ; Music Social aspects ; History and criticism ; Popular music African influences ; Folk songs, English ; Rasse ; Volkskunde ; Geschlechterforschung ; Schwarze ; USA ; USA ; USA ; Schwarze ; Volkskunde ; Rasse ; Geschlechterforschung ; Geschichte 1930-1940
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 8
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    New York : Fordham University Press
    ISBN: 0823275310 , 0823275302 , 9780823275304 , 9780823275311
    Language: English
    Pages: 270 Seiten , 24 cm
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Lim, Jeehyun Bilingual Brokers
    DDC: 306.44/60973
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    Keywords: Bilingualism and literature ; Bilingualism Social aspects ; Language and culture Social aspects ; Linguistic minorities Social aspects ; Bilingualism and literature ; American literature Asian American authors ; History and criticism ; American literature Hispanic American authors ; History and criticism ; Bilingualism in literature ; Bilingualism and literature ; Bilingualism Social aspects ; United States
    Abstract: Cultural brokers in interwar Orientalism -- Bilingual personhood and the American dream -- Schooling bilinguals in and against multiculturalism -- Dormant bilingualism in neoliberal America -- Global English and the predicament of monolingual multiculturalism -- Epilogue: The future of bilingual brokering
    Note: Formerly CIP. - Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 9
    ISBN: 9781138211759
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 167 Seiten
    Series Statement: Routledge research in transnational indigenous perspectives
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Native American survivance, memory, and futurity
    DDC: 818/.5409
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    Keywords: Vizenor, Gerald Robert Criticism and interpretation ; American literature Indian authors ; History and criticism ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Vizenor, Gerald Robert 1934-
    Abstract: "This volume brings together some of the most distinguished experts on Vizenor's work from Europe and the United States."--Provided by publisher
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  • 10
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    New York, NY : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780190464387 , 0190464380
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 223 Seiten , 22 cm
    DDC: 810.9/895
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    Keywords: American literature Asian American authors ; History and criticism ; Repetition in literature ; Multiculturalism in literature ; American literature Asian American authors ; History and criticism ; Repetition in literature ; Multiculturalism in literature ; American literature Asian American authors ; Multiculturalism in literature ; Repetition in literature Criticism, interpretation, etc ; USA ; Asiaten ; Literatur ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Wiederholung ; USA ; Literatur ; Asiaten
    Abstract: Introduction: Repetition and race -- Racial trauma and triangulation in Susan Choi's The foreign student -- Remapping the politics of pastiche in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange -- Interrupted intertextuality in Chang-rae Lee's Native speaker -- Practicing the future in Maxine Hong Kingston's The fifth book of peace -- Conclusion: Repetition, form, and history
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Repetition and raceRacial trauma and triangulation in Susan Choi's The foreign student -- Remapping the politics of pastiche in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange -- Interrupted intertextuality in Chang-Rae Lee's Native speaker -- Practicing the future in Maxine Hong Kingston's The fifth book of peace -- Conclusion: Repetition, form, and history.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-216) and index , Introduction: Repetition and race , Racial trauma and triangulation in Susan Choi's The foreign student , Remapping the politics of pastiche in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange , Interrupted intertextuality in Chang-rae Lee's Native speaker , Practicing the future in Maxine Hong Kingston's The fifth book of peace , Conclusion: Repetition, form, and history
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  • 11
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    New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780199844937 , 0199844933
    Language: English
    Pages: xx, 285 Seiten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sorett, Josef Spirit in the dark
    DDC: 810.9/896073
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    Keywords: American literature African American authors ; History and criticism ; Religion and literature History 20th century ; Religion in literature ; African Americans in literature ; Blacks Race identity ; American literature African American authors ; History and criticism ; Religion and literature History ; 20th century ; United States ; Religion in literature ; African Americans in literature ; Blacks Race identity ; United States ; African Americans in literature ; American literature African American authors ; Blacks Race identity ; Religion and literature ; Religion in literature United States ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History ; USA ; Schwarze ; Literatur ; Das Religiöse ; Spiritualität ; Ethnische Identität ; Geschichte 1920-1960
    Abstract: Church, spirit, and the history of racial aesthetics -- The church and the Negro spirit -- Ancestral spirits -- Catholic spirits -- As the spirit moves -- An international spirit -- That spirit is Black -- Contrary spirits -- You can't keep a good church down!
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  • 12
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    Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press | Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780824870485
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressourcece
    DDC: 305.895073
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    Keywords: Familie ; Geschichte ; Asian Americans Biography ; History and criticism ; Asian Americans Ethnic identity ; USA
    Abstract: This work focuses the Asian American memoir that specifically recounts the story of at least three generations of the same family. This form of autobiography concentrates as much on other members of one's family as on oneself, generally collapses the boundaries conventionally established between biography and autobiography, and in many cases crosses the frontier into history, promoting collective memory.
    Note: Previously issued in print: 2010 , Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 13
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    Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag$h | Berlin : Knowledge Unlatched
    ISBN: 9783839436660 , 3839436664
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (212 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Postcolonial studies volume 28
    Series Statement: Postcolonial studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Nehl, Markus, 1985 - Transnational black dialogues
    Dissertation note: Dissertation Universität Münster 2015
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    Keywords: African diaspora in literature ; English literature Black authors ; History and criticism ; English literature History and criticism ; 21st century ; Slavery in literature ; Violence in literature ; Hochschulschrift ; Electronic books ; USA ; Schwarze ; Roman ; Sklaverei ; Geschichte 2006-2009
    Abstract: Cover. Transnational Black Dialogues -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Slavery-An "Unmentionable" Past? -- 1. The Concept of the African Diaspora and the Notion of Difference -- 2. From Human Bondage to Racial Slavery: Toni Morrison's A Mercy (2008). -- 3. Rethinking the African Diaspora: Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother (2007) 4. "Hertseer:" Re-Imagining Cape Slavery in Yvette Christiansë's Unconfessed (2006) -- 5. Transnational Diasporic Journeys in Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes (2007). -- 6. A Vicious Circle of Violence: Revisiting Jamaican Slavery in Marlon James's The Book of Night Women (2009) Epilogue: The Past of Slavery and "the Incomplete Project of Freedom" -- Works Cited
    Note: Leicht überarbeitete und aktualisierte Version der Dissertation, Universität Münster, 2015
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  • 14
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US | Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9781137603609 , 9781349888177
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 138 p)
    Series Statement: Literatures of the Americas
    DDC: 306.098
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    Keywords: Culture Study and teaching ; Ethnology Latin America ; Literature Philosophy ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; America Literatures
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
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  • 15
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    Urbana ; Chicago ; Springfield : University of Illinois Press
    ISBN: 9780252040573 , 9780252082047
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 240 Seiten , Illustrationen , 24 cm
    DDC: 305.89607309034
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1900 ; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American / bisacsh ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies / bisacsh ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies / bisacsh ; African American girls History 19th century ; African Americans Social conditions 19th century ; African Americans Politics and government 19th century ; Political culture History 19th century ; African Americans Intellectual life 19th century ; American literature African American authors ; History and criticism ; African Americans in literature ; Girls in literature ; Politics and literature History 19th century ; Schwarze ; Mädchen ; Literatur ; United States Race relations 19th century ; History ; USA ; USA ; Literatur ; Schwarze ; Mädchen ; Geschichte 1800-1900
    Abstract: "Long portrayed as a masculine endeavor, the African American struggle for progress often found expression through an unlikely literary figure: the black girl. Nazera Sadiq Wright uses heavy archival research on a wide range of texts about African American girls to explore this understudied phenomenon. As Wright shows, the figure of the black girl in African American literature provided a powerful avenue for exploring issues like domesticity, femininity, and proper conduct. The characters' actions, however fictional, became a rubric for African American citizenship and racial progress. At the same time, their seeming dependence and insignificance allegorized the unjust treatment of African Americans. Wright reveals fascinating girls who, possessed of a premature knowing and wisdom beyond their years, projected a courage and resiliency that made them exemplary representations of the project of racial advance and citizenship"--Publisher description
    Description / Table of Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Toward a Genealogy of Black Girlhood -- Black Girlhood in the Early Black Press -- Youthful Girls and Prematurely Knowing Girls : Antebellum Black Girlhood -- "Teach your Daughters" : Black Girlhood and Mrs. N. F. Mossell's Advice Column in the New York Freeman -- Moving the Boundaries : Black Girlhood and Public Careers in Frances E.W. Harper's Trial and Triumph -- Black Girlhood in Early-Twentieth-Century Black Conduct Books -- Epilogue: The Changing Same? : Next-Generation Black Girlhood
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783319319216
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 170 p)
    Series Statement: Afro-Latin@ Diasporas
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.08968
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    Keywords: Culture Study and teaching ; African Americans ; Ethnology Latin America ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; America Literatures
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  • 17
    ISBN: 9781501126345
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 226 Seiten , Illustrationen , 22 cm
    Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition
    DDC: 305.896/073
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    Keywords: African Americans Social conditions 21st century ; Blacks Race identity ; Racism ; African Americans in literature ; African Americans in popular culture ; American literature African American authors ; History and criticism ; African Americans ; United States Race relations 21st century ; Quelle ; Quelle ; Quelle ; Quelle ; USA ; Schwarze ; Rassenfrage ; Rassismus ; Bürgerrecht ; Baldwin, James 1924-1987 ; Rassenpolitik ; Geschichte
    Abstract: The Tradition / by Jericho Brown -- Introduction / by Jesmyn Ward -- Part I: Legacy -- Homegoing, AD / by Kima Jones -- The Weight / by Rachel Ghansah / Lonely in America / by Wendy S. Walters -- Where Do We Go from Here? / by Isabel Wilkerson -- "The Dear Pledges of Our Love": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband / Honoree Jeffers -- White Rage / by Carol Anderson -- Cracking the Code / by Jesmyn Ward -- Part II: Reckoning -- Queries of Unrest / by Clint Smith -- Blacker Than Thou / by Kevin Young -- Da Art of Storytellin' (a prequel) / by Kiese Laymon -- Black and Blue / by Garnette Cadogan --The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning / by Claudia Rankine -- Know Your Rights! / by Emily Raboteau -- Composite Pops / by Mitchell Jackson -- Part III: Jubilee -- Theories of Time and Space / by Natasha Trethewey -- Love in the Time of Contradiction / by Daniel Jose Older -- Message to My Daughters / by Edwidge Danticat
    Abstract: National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin’s 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time. In light of recent tragedies and widespread protests across the nation, The Progressive magazine republished one of its most famous pieces: James Baldwin’s 1962 “Letter to My Nephew,” which was later published in his landmark book, The Fire Next Time. Addressing his fifteen-year-old namesake on the one hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, Baldwin wrote: “You know and I know, that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon.” Award-winning author Jesmyn Ward knows that Baldwin’s words ring as true as ever today. In response, she has gathered short essays, memoir, and a few essential poems to engage the question of race in the United States. And she has turned to some of her generation’s most original thinkers and writers to give voice to their concerns. The Fire This Time is divided into three parts that shine a light on the darkest corners of our history, wrestle with our current predicament, and envision a better future. Of the eighteen pieces, ten were written specifically for this volume. In the fifty-odd years since Baldwin’s essay was published, entire generations have dared everything and made significant progress. But the idea that we are living in the post-Civil Rights era, that we are a “post-racial” society is an inaccurate and harmful reflection of a truth the country must confront. Baldwin’s “fire next time” is now upon us, and it needs to be talked about. Contributors include Carol Anderson, Jericho Brown, Garnette Cadogan, Edwidge Danticat, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, Mitchell S. Jackson, Honoree Jeffers, Kima Jones, Kiese Laymon, Daniel Jose Older, Emily Raboteau, Claudia Rankine, Clint Smith, Natasha Trethewey, Wendy S. Walters, Isabel Wilkerson, and Kevin Young.
    Note: "The tradition" , Introduction , Homegoing, AD , The weight , Lonely in America , Where do we go from here? , "The dear pledges of our love": A defense of Phillis Wheatley's husband , White rage , Cracking the code , Queries of unrest , Blacker than thou , Da art of storytellin' (a prequel) , Black and blue , The condition of black life is one of mourning , Know your rights! , Composite pops , Theories of time and space , This far: Notes on love and revolution , Message to my daughters
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    ISBN: 9781137477743
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 505 p)
    Series Statement: Springer eBook Collection
    Series Statement: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
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    Keywords: Literature ; Motion pictures United States ; Civilization History ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; Fiction ; America Literatures ; Literature ; Motion pictures United States ; Civilization History ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; Fiction ; America Literatures ; USA ; Gothic novel
    Abstract: This book examines ‘Southern Gothic’ - a term that describes some of the finest works of the American Imagination. But what do ‘Southern’ and ‘Gothic’ mean, and how are they related? Traditionally seen as drawing on the tragedy of slavery and loss, ‘Southern Gothic’ is now a richer, more complex subject. Thirty-five distinguished scholars explore the Southern Gothic, under the categories of Poe and his Legacy; Space and Place; Race; Gender and Sexuality; and Monsters and Voodoo. The essays examine slavery and the laws that supported it, and stories of slaves who rebelled and those who escaped. Also present are the often-neglected issues of the Native American presence in the South, socioeconomic class, the distinctions among the several regions of the South, same-sex relationships, and norms of gendered behaviour. This handbook covers not only iconic figures of Southern literature but also other less well-known writers, and examines gothic imagery in film and in contemporary television programmes such as True Blood and True Detective
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing
    ISBN: 9783319301082
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 222 p. 12 illus)
    Series Statement: Springer eBook Collection
    Series Statement: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Swirski, Peter, 1963 - American crime fiction
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; America Literatures ; Literature ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; America Literatures ; USA ; Kriminalroman ; USA ; Kriminalliteratur
    Abstract: This book looks at American crime fiction as an artform that expresses and reflects the social and aesthetic values of its authors and readers. As such it documents the manifold ways in which such authorship and readership are a matter of informed literary choice and not of cultural brainwashing or declining literary standards. Asking, in effect, a series of questions about the nature of genre fiction as art, successive chapters look at American crime writers whose careers throw light on the hazards and rewards of nobrow traffic between popular forms and highbrow aesthetics: Dashiell Hammett, John Grisham, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Chandler, Ed McBain, Nelson DeMille, and F. Scott Fitzgerald
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9781137578419
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 134 p, online resource)
    Series Statement: SpringerLink
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    Series Statement: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bruhn, Jørgen, 1968 - The intermediality of narrative literature
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; America Literatures ; Literature—Philosophy. ; USA ; Kurzgeschichte ; Roman ; Erzähltheorie ; Intermedialität
    Abstract: This book argues that narrative literature very often, if not always, include significant amounts of what appears to be extra-literary material - in form and in content - and that we too often ignore this dimension of literature. It offers an up to date overview and discussion of intermedial theory, and it facilitates a much-needed dialogue between the burgeoning field of intermedial studies on the one side and the already well-developed methods of literary analysis on the other. The book aims at working these two fields together into a productive working method. It makes evident, in a methodologically succinct way, the necessity of approaching literature with an intermedial terminology by way of a relatively simple but never the less productive three-step analytic method. In four in-depth case studies of Anglophone texts ranging from Nabokov, Chandler and Tobias Wolff to Jennifer Egan, it demonstrates that medialities matter
    Abstract: Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is Mediality, and (How) does it Matter? Theoretical Terms and Methodology -- 3. Speak, Memory? Vladimir Nabokov, “Spring in Fialta” -- 4. “This beats tapes, doesn’t it?” - Women, cathedrals, and other medialities in Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” -- 5. “Great script, eh?” - Medialities, metafiction and non-meaning in Tobias Wolff’s “Bullet in the brain” -- 6. Between punk and PowerPoint: Authenticity versus medialities in Jennifer Egan’s A visit from the goon squad -- 7. Afterthoughts -- Bibliography -- Index.-
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    ISBN: 9783319324708
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 304 p)
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    Series Statement: Studies in Global Science Fiction
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; Comparative literature ; Epistemology ; Comparative literature. ; Epistemology. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century.
    Abstract: This book argues that feminist science fiction shares the same concerns as feminist epistemology-challenges to the sex of the knower, the valuation of the abstract over the concrete, the dismissal of the physical, the focus on rationality and reason, the devaluation of embodied knowledge, and the containment of (some) bodies. Ritch Calvin argues that feminist science fiction asks questions of epistemology because those questions are central to making claims of subjectivity and identity. Calvin reveals how women, who have historically been marginal to the deliberations of philosophy and science, have made significant contributions to the reconsideration and reformulation of the epistemological models of the world and the individuals in it
    Abstract: Endings(s) -- Feminist Science Fiction and Feminist Epistemology -- The First Mode of FESF: Epistemology and Plot -- The Second Mode of FESF: Epistemology and Structural Elements -- The Third Mode of FESF: Epistemology and Science -- The Fourth Mode of FESF: Epistemology and Language -- Beginning(s)
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    ISBN: 9781137588548
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 134 p)
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    Keywords: Ethnology Latin America ; America Literatures ; Cultural studies ; Literature. ; Cultural studies. ; Literature   . ; Literature ; America—Literatures. ; Ethnology—Latin America. ; Chicana ; Literatur ; Ritual
    Abstract: This book argues for the necessary and further examination of the sacred as it is ritualized within Chicana fiction. It suggests that religious, spiritual, linguistic and political symbolisms reveal rites that structure narrative performances of coping with and healing from trauma. Helane Androne examines these rites of spirit, service, and story as they occur in Ana Castillo’s So Far From God, Denise Chávez’s Face of An Angel, and Sandra Cisneros’ Caramelo. Beginning with the implications of Gloria Anzaldúa’s spiritual vision of Chicana identity alongside structural principles of ritual criticism, this study extends the discourse about the impact of the sacred in Chicana fiction. Helane Androne is Professor of English and directs the Ohio Writing Project at Miami University, USA. She is the author of Multiethnic American Literatures: Essays for Teaching Context and Culture and has published in journals such as Pedagogy, MELUS, and Phoebe
    Abstract: Introduction -- Chapter 1: “A Place from where to think”: The work of ritual criticism on Chicana fiction -- Chapter 2: Loca Malinalli: Centering the Spiritual in Ana Castillo’s So Far From God -- Chapter 3: ‘…an actress in a play’: Service as Sacred Performance in Denise Chávez’s Face of an Angel -- Chapter 4: Reality Shifts: The Language of Nahuala in Sandra Cisneros’ Caramelo, or Puro Cuento -- Index
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    ISBN: 9783319320649
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XLVIII, 230 p)
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    Series Statement: American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; America Literatures ; Poetry ; Poetry. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; America—Literatures.
    Abstract: This book offers a bold critical method for reading Gertrude Stein’s work on its own terms by forgoing conventional explanation and adopting Stein’s radical approach to meaning and knowledge. Inspired by the immanence of landscape, both of Provence where she travelled in the 1920s and the spatial relations of landscape painting, Stein presents a new model of meaning whereby making sense is an activity distributed in a text and across successive texts. From love poetry, to plays and portraiture, Linda Voris offers close readings of Stein’s most anthologized and less known writing in a case study of a new method of interpretation. By practicing Stein’s innovative means of making sense, Voris reveals the excitement of her discoveries and the startling implications for knowledge, identity, and intimacy
    Abstract: Introduction: The Force of Landscape -- Chapter 1. Making Sense: Stein’s Radical Epistemology -- Chapter 2. Taking Place in Love Poems -- Chapter 3. Framing Space: The First Landscape Play -- Chapter 4. Dissolving the Frame -- Chapter 5. Portraiture after Landscape -- Conclusion: Relating Chance and Choice
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    ISBN: 9781137581730
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXXII, 230 p)
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    Series Statement: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; America Literatures ; Children's literature ; Technology in literature ; Technology in literature. ; Children's literature. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; America—Literatures.
    Abstract: This book is a study of the evolving relationships between literature, cyberspace, and young adults in the twenty-first century. Megan L. Musgrave explores the ways that young adult fiction is becoming a platform for a public conversation about the great benefits and terrible risks of our increasing dependence upon technology in public and private life. Drawing from theories of digital citizenship and posthuman theory, Digital Citizenship in Twenty-First Century Young Adult Literature considers how the imaginary forms of activism depicted in literature can prompt young people to shape their identities and choices as citizens in a digital culture
    Abstract: Introduction -- Cyborg Bodies in Illness and Disability Narratives -- Cyborg Minds at Play in Participatory Cultures, or, Going Public in Private -- Gamer Guys: Playing with Civic Responsibility in Ludic Fiction -- Gamer Girls: Going Online in the Age of Misogynist Terrorism -- Imaginary Activism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
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    ISBN: 9781137581716
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 302 p. 5 illus., 2 illus. in color)
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    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern 20th century ; America Literatures ; Literature ; Fiction ; African literature ; British literature ; African literature. ; British literature. ; Fiction. ; Literature   . ; America—Literatures. ; Literature, Modern—20th century.
    Abstract: This book offers a new approach to reading the cultural memory of Africa in African American fiction from the post-Civil Rights era and in Black British fiction emerging in the wake of Thatcherism. The critical period between the decline of the Civil Rights Movement and the dawn of the twenty-first century saw a deep contrast in the distinctive narrative approaches displayed by diverse African diaspora literatures in negotiating the crisis of representing the past. Through a series of close readings of literary fiction, this work examines how the cultural memory of Africa is employed in diverse and specific negotiations of narrative time, in order to engage and shape contemporary identity and citizenship. By addressing the practice of “remembering” Africa, the book argues for the signal importance of the African diaspora’s literary interventions, and locates new paradigms for cultural identity in contemporary times
    Abstract: 1 Introduction -- 2 ‘Drumbeats From The Aeons’: Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo -- 3 ‘Solomon’s Leap’: Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon -- 4 ‘Worse Than Unwelcome’: Alice Walker’s The Color Purple -- 5 ‘Something About The Silence’: John Edgar Wideman’s Philadelphia Fire -- 6 ‘Words Without Sound’: Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River -- 7 Circular Talk’: S.I. Martin’s Incomparable World -- 8 ‘Awakening to the Singing’: Bernardine Evaristo’s Lara -- 9 ‘I Can Change Memory’: David Dabydeen’s A Harlot’s Progress -- 10 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
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    ISBN: 9780813938257
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Wheelock, Stefan M., - 1971- Barbaric culture and black critique
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    Keywords: Stewart, Maria W ; Equiano, Olaudah ; Cugoano, Ottobah ; Walker, David ; English literature History and criticism 18th century ; Slavery in literature ; Slavery Religious aspects ; Slavery Political aspects ; Slaves' writings, English History and criticism ; American literature History and criticism 19th century ; American literature African American authors ; History and criticism ; Electronic books ; USA ; Schwarze ; Cugoano, Ottobah 1757-1803 ; Equiano, Olaudah 1745-1797 ; Stewart, Maria W. 1803-1880 ; Walker, David 1785-1836 ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Sklaverei ; Geschichte 1770-1830
    Abstract: "In an interdisciplinary approach to black antislavery literatures at the dawn of the nineteenth century, Stefan Wheelock shows how the political character of freedom and a religious sensibility allowed Black antislavery writers to countermand ideologies of white supremacy while fostering a sense of racial community and identity. The major figures he selects--Ottobah Cugoano, Olaudah Equiano, David Walker, and Maria Stewart--were principally concerned with ending racial slavery and the slave trade, but they employed antislavery rhetoric at a time when the institution of slavery was preparing progressive Western politics to enter a new phase of imperial and racial domination. This contradictory circumstance, Wheelock argues, poses a significant challenge for understanding the development of this watershed moment in Western political identity. The author looks at the ways in which, during this period, religious and secular versions of collective political destiny both competed and cooperated to forge a vision for a more perfect and just society. What especially captures his interest is how the writers of the African Atlantic deployed religious sensibilities and the call for emancipation as a way of characterizing the liberal foundations of Atlantic political modernity. Although neither "modernity" nor "progress" is a term these writers used, Wheelock contends that a concern with modernity and its liberal character is implicit in their critiques and/or portrayals of the advanced political structures that gave rise to racial enslavement in the first place" --
    Description / Table of Contents: PrefaceIntroduction -- Ottobah Cugoano, liberty, and modern Atlantic barbarism -- Interesting narratives, civility, and the problem of freedom -- David Walker, false grammars, and American racial inheritance -- Maria Stewart and the paradoxes of early national virtue -- Conclusion.
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    ISBN: 9780816532001
    Language: English
    Pages: XX, 216 Seiten , Illustrationen , 23 cm
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    Keywords: American literature Mexican American authors ; History and criticism ; Environmentalism in literature ; USA ; Mexikaner ; Autor ; Literatur ; Umweltschutz ; Ökologie ; Geschichte 1800-2015
    Abstract: "The book looks to long-established traditions of environmentalist thought alive in Mexican American literary history over the last 150 years"--Provided by publisher
    Abstract: Introduction: defining Mexican American goodlife writing -- Chapter 1. Epistemological hierarchy and the environment: erasure of Mexican American knowledge in three nineteenth century novels -- Chapter 2. The coloniality of being and the land: identity in early twentieth century goodlife writing -- Chapter 3. "La santa tierra": Mexican American writing and transcending possession in the late twentieth century -- Chapter 4. Active subjectivity in migrant farm worker fiction: rejecting alienation from the land -- Chapter 5. Ecology and chicana/o cultural nationalism: creating joyful community in Cherríe Moraga's millenial writings -- Coda: decolonized environmentalisms for the twenty-first century
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: defining Mexican American goodlife writingChapter 1. Epistemological hierarchy and the environment: erasure of Mexican American knowledge in three nineteenth century novels -- Chapter 2. The coloniality of being and the land: identity in early twentieth century goodlife writing -- Chapter 3. "La santa tierra": Mexican American writing and transcending possession in the late twentieth century -- Chapter 4. Active subjectivity in migrant farm worker fiction: rejecting alienation from the land -- Chapter 5. Ecology and chicana/o cultural nationalism: creating joyful community in Cherríe Moraga's millenial writings -- Coda: decolonized environmentalisms for the twenty-first century.
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    ISBN: 9780813937991 , 9780813937984
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 216 Seiten
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    Keywords: Cugoano, Ottobah ; Equiano, Olaudah ; Walker, David ; Stewart, Maria W ; Slaves' writings, English History and criticism ; English literature History and criticism 18th century ; Slavery in literature ; American literature History and criticism 19th century ; American literature African American authors ; History and criticism ; Slavery Religious aspects ; Slavery Political aspects ; USA ; Schwarze ; Cugoano, Ottobah 1757-1803 ; Equiano, Olaudah 1745-1797 ; Stewart, Maria W. 1803-1880 ; Walker, David 1785-1836 ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Sklaverei ; Geschichte 1770-1830
    Abstract: "In an interdisciplinary approach to black antislavery literatures at the dawn of the nineteenth century, Stefan Wheelock shows how the political character of freedom and a religious sensibility allowed Black antislavery writers to countermand ideologies of white supremacy while fostering a sense of racial community and identity. The major figures he selects--Ottobah Cugoano, Olaudah Equiano, David Walker, and Maria Stewart--were principally concerned with ending racial slavery and the slave trade, but they employed antislavery rhetoric at a time when the institution of slavery was preparing progressive Western politics to enter a new phase of imperial and racial domination. This contradictory circumstance, Wheelock argues, poses a significant challenge for understanding the development of this watershed moment in Western political identity. The author looks at the ways in which, during this period, religious and secular versions of collective political destiny both competed and cooperated to forge a vision for a more perfect and just society. What especially captures his interest is how the writers of the African Atlantic deployed religious sensibilities and the call for emancipation as a way of characterizing the liberal foundations of Atlantic political modernity. Although neither "modernity" nor "progress" is a term these writers used, Wheelock contends that a concern with modernity and its liberal character is implicit in their critiques and/or portrayals of the advanced political structures that gave rise to racial enslavement in the first place" --
    Abstract: Preface -- Introduction -- Ottobah Cugoano, liberty, and modern Atlantic barbarism -- Interesting narratives, civility, and the problem of freedom -- David Walker, false grammars, and American racial inheritance -- Maria Stewart and the paradoxes of early national virtue -- Conclusion
    Description / Table of Contents: PrefaceIntroduction -- Ottobah Cugoano, liberty, and modern Atlantic barbarism -- Interesting narratives, civility, and the problem of freedom -- David Walker, false grammars, and American racial inheritance -- Maria Stewart and the paradoxes of early national virtue -- Conclusion.
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    ISBN: 9781349949014
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 258 p)
    Series Statement: Literatures of the Americas
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    Keywords: Culture Study and teaching ; Ethnology Latin America ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; Literature ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    ISBN: 9781137597151
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 253 p)
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    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature History and criticism ; Literature, Modern 18th century ; America Literatures ; Fiction ; Fiction. ; Literature, Modern—18th century. ; America—Literatures. ; Literature—History and criticism.
    Abstract: This book is a study of depictions of health and sickness in the early American novel, 1787-1808. These texts reveal a troubling tension between the impulse toward social affection that built cohesion in the nation and the pursuit of self-interest that was considered central to the emerging liberalism of the new Republic. Good health is depicted as an extremely positive social value, almost an a priori condition of membership in the community. Characters who have the “glow of health” tend to enjoy wealth and prestige; those who become sick are burdened by poverty and debt or have made bad decisions that have jeopardized their status. Bodies that waste away, faint, or literally disappear off of the pages of America’s first fiction are resisting the conditions that ail them; as they plead for their right to exist, they draw attention to the injustice, apathy, and greed that afflict them
    Abstract: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A “Very Unfeeling World”: The Failure of Social Healing in Rowson’s America -- 2. “Your Health and My Happiness”: Sickness and Health in The Coquette and Female Quixotism -- 3. “The Best Means of Retaining Health”: Self-determined Health and Social Discipline in Early America -- 4. “The Means of Subsistence”: Health, Wealth, and Social Affection in a Yellow Fever World -- 5. The “Learned Doctor”: Tyler’s Literary Endorsement of a Federalist Elite -- 6. “Some Yankee Non-sense about Humanity”: Hiding Away African Health in Early American Fiction -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.-
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    ISBN: 9783319402925
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIX, 279 p)
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    Series Statement: American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; America Literatures ; Fiction ; Fiction. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; America—Literatures.
    Abstract: The contributors to this volume use diverse critical techniques to identify how Carson McCullers’ writing engages with and critiques modern social structures and how her work resonates with a twenty-first century audience. The collection includes chapters about McCullers’ fiction, autobiographical writing, and dramatic works, and is groundbreaking because it includes the first detailed scholarly examination of new archival material donated to Columbus State University after the 2013 death of Dr. Mary Mercer, McCullers’ psychiatrist and friend, including transcripts of the psychiatric sessions that took place between McCullers and Mercer in 1958. Further, the collection covers the scope of McCullers’ canon of work, such as The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), The Member of the Wedding (1946), and Ballad of the Sad Café (1943), through lenses that are of growing interest in contemporary literary studies, including comparative transatlantic readings, queer theory, disability studies, and critical animal theory, among others
    Abstract: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- From Adaptation to Influence: Carson McCullers on the Stage, By Casey Kayser -- “Impromptu Journal of My Heart”: Carson McCullers’s Therapeutic Recordings, April - May 1958, By Carlos Dews -- Collaborative Life Writing: The Dialogical Subject of Carson McCullers’ Dictaphone ‘Experiments’ and Posthumously Published Autobiography, Illumination and Night Glare, By Melanie Sherazi -- Telling It “Slant”: Carson McCullers, Harper Lee, and the Veil of Memory, By Jan Whitt -- Musings between the Marvelous and Strange: New Contexts and Correspondence about Carson McCullers and Mary Tucker, By Carmen Trammell Skaggs -- The Image of the String Quartet Lurking in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, By Kiyoko Magome -- Entering the Compound: Becoming with Carson McCullers’ Freaks, By renée c. hoogland -- “To be a good animal”: Toward a Queer-Posthumanist Reading of Reflections in a Golden Eye, By Temple Gowan -- Coming of Age in the Queer South: Queer Friendship in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, By Kristen Proehl -- Queer Eyes: Cross-Gendering, Cross-Dressing, and Cross-Racing Miss Amelia, By Miho Matsui -- “Nature is not abnormal; only lifelessness is abnormal”: Paradigms of the In-valid in Reflections in a Golden Eye, By Alison Graham-Bertolini -- A Tale of “two mutes”: Cognitive Segregation and Productive Citizenship in Carson McCullers’ The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, By Stephanie Rountree -- Seeking the Meaning of Loneliness: Carson McCullers in China, By Lin Bin -- “The Ballad of Two Sad Cafés”: Nicholasa Mohr’s Postwar Narrative as ‘Writing Back’ to Carson McCullers, By Barbara Roche Rico.-Jester’s Mercurial Nature and the Hermeneutics of Time in McCullers’ Clock Without Hands, By Craig Slaven
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    ISBN: 9783319428932
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 211 p)
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    Series Statement: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; America Literatures ; Children's literature ; Children's literature. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; America—Literatures.
    Abstract: Applying critical race theory to contemporary African American children’s and young adult literature, this book explores one key racial issue that has been overlooked both in race studies and literary scholarship-internalised racism. By systematically examining the issue of internalised racism and its detrimental psychological effects, particularly towards the young and vulnerable, this book defamiliarises the very racial issue that otherwise has become normalised in American racial discourse, reaffirming the relevance of race, racism, and racialisation in contemporary America. Through readings of works by Jacqueline Woodson, Sharon G. Flake, Tanita S. Davis, Sapphire, Rosa Guy, and Nikki Grimes, Suriyan Panlay develops a new critical discourse on internalised racism by studying its effects on marginalised children, its manifestations, and the fictional narrative strategies that can be used to regain and reclaim a sense of self
    Abstract: Introduction -- Chapter 1 Internalised Racism and Critical Race Theory -- Chapter 2 Wounded -- Chapter 3 Tongue-tied -- Chapter 4 Displaced -- Chapter 5 Triumphed -- Conclusion -- References -- Index
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    ISBN: 9783319403373
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 254 p)
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    Series Statement: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; Comparative literature ; Comparative literature. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; USA ; Roman ; Klimaänderung
    Abstract: This book highlights the importance of the cultural sphere, and in particular literature, in response and discussion with the unprecedented phenomenon known as climate change. Antonia Mehnert turns to a set of contemporary American works of fiction, reading them as a unique response to the challenges of representing climate change. She draws on “climate change fiction”- texts dealing explicitly with anthropogenic climate change-and explores how these works convey climate change, deal with its challenging characteristics, and with what narrative techniques they ultimately participate in its communication. Indeed, a number of challenging traits make climate change a difficult issue to engage with including its slow and long temporal dimension, global scale, scientific controversy, and its disconnect between cause and effect. Considering such complexity and uncertainty at the source of climate change fictions, this book moves beyond a solely ecocritical analysis and shows how these climate change fictions constitute an insightful cultural repertoire valuable for discussion in the environmental humanities in general
    Abstract: Introduction: Imagining Climate Change Futures -- Chapter 1: Climate Change Fictions in Context: Socio-Politics, Environmental Discourse and Literature -- Chapter 2: Scaling Climate Change-The Transformation of Place in Climate Change Fiction -- Chapter 3: Reimagining Time in Climate Change Fiction -- Chapter 4: Manufactured Uncertainty: Climate Risks in an Age of “Heightened Security” -- Chapter 5: Climate Cultures in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Science in the Capital Trilogy -- Chapter 6: Representing the Underrepresented: Climate Justice and Future Responsibilities in Climate Change Fiction -- Conclusion: Climate Change Fiction and the Introduction of New Genres in Environmental Crisis Discourse -- Notes -- Bibliography
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    ISBN: 9781137592217
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 241 p. 1 illus)
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature Philosophy ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Fiction ; Aesthetics ; Literature ; Literature Philosophy ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Fiction ; Aesthetics ; Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovič 1899-1977 ; Moral ; Ästhetik
    Abstract: The first collection to address the vexing issue of Nabokov’s moral stances, this book argues that he designed his novels and stories as open-ended ethical problems for readers to confront. In a dozen new essays, international Nabokov scholars tackle those problems directly while addressing such questions as whether Nabokov was a bad reader, how he defined evil, if he believed in God, and how he constructed fictional works that led readers to become aware of their own moral positions. In order to elucidate his engagement with aesthetics, metaphysics, and ethics, Nabokov and the Question of Morality explores specific concepts in the volume’s four sections: “Responsible Reading,” “Good and Evil,” “Agency and Altruism,” and “The Ethics of Representation.” By bringing together fresh insights from leading Nabokovians and emerging scholars, this book establishes new interdisciplinary contexts for Nabokov studies and generates lively readings of works from his entire career
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    ISBN: 9781137356475
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 p)
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature History and criticism ; Fiction ; America Literatures ; Sociology. ; Literature—Philosophy. ; Culture—Study and teaching. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature ; Literature History and criticism ; Fiction ; America Literatures ; USA ; Kriminalliteratur ; Femme fatale ; Hammett, Dashiell 1894-1961 ; Chandler, Raymond 1888-1959 ; Cain, James M. 1892-1977 ; Goodis, David 1917-1967 ; Spillane, Mickey 1918-2006
    Abstract: This book fills a gap in both literary and feminist scholarship by offering the first major study of femme fatales in hardboiled crime fiction. Maysaa Jaber shows that the criminal literary figures in the genre open up powerful spaces for imagining female agency in direct opposition to the constraining forces of patriarchy and misogyny
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing
    ISBN: 9783319410067
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 206 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; America Literatures ; Postmodernism (Literature) ; Postmodernism (Literature). ; America—Literatures. ; Literature, Modern—20th century.
    Abstract: This book reevaluates fiction devoted to the postwar American suburb, examining the way these works imagine suburbia as a communal structure designed to advance a particular American identity. Postmodern Suburban Spaces surveys works by both canonical chroniclers of the middle class experience, such as Richard Yates and John Cheever, and those who reflect suburbia’s demographic reality, including Gloria Naylor and Chang-rae Lee, to uncover a surprising reconfiguration of the suburban experience. Tracing major forms of suburban associations - racial divisions, property lines, the family, and ethnic fealty - these works depict a different mode of interaction than the stereotypical white picket fences. Joseph George draws from philosophers such as Emmanuel Levinas and Roberto Esposito to argue that these fictions assert a critical hospitality that frustrates the limited forms of association on which suburbia is based. This fiction, in turn, posits an ethical form of community that comes about when people share space together
    Abstract: Introduction Nowhere to Now Here -- Chapter One: Against Fence Thinking -- Chapter Two: My Home is Your Home -- Chapter Three: Domesticated Strangers -- Chapter Four: American Means Being Whatever You Want -- Conclusion: The Second Suburban Century -- Works Cited
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    ISBN: 9783658162689
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 233 p)
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; America Literatures ; Postmodernism (Literature) ; Postmodernism (Literature). ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; America—Literatures.
    Abstract: Since the financial crisis cannot be explained by looking at the ‘numbers’ alone, Judith Schulz investigates the diverse facets of the economic system, including the emotional response and motivations of the actors. It is precisely in this context that fiction can fill in the gaps in the understanding of the financial crisis and its cultural context. Schulz analyses works of Don DeLillo, Jess Walter and Martha McPhee to explore the complex and multifaceted interaction between culture and the economy. These authors shed light on the impact of neoliberal economic policies and create a dialogue on the highly controversial questions related to the financial crisis. They point to the contradictions and paradoxes within American culture and show that there is a need to renegotiate issues of national identity and the American Dream. Contents Theorizing and Fictionalizing the Financial Crisis Capitalism and Control Culture and Consumption Crisis and Complexity Target Groups Researchers and students of American Studies, Literary and Cultural Studies Journalists and practitioners in the fields of literature and culture About the Author〈 While working on this book, Judith Schulz held the position of Marketing and Communications Manager at Mannheim Business School and participated in a PhD program at the University of Mannheim. In 2016, Schulz launched her own business as marketing and PR consultant
    Abstract: Theorizing and Fictionalizing the Financial Crisis -- Capitalism and Control -- Culture and Consumption -- Crisis and Complexity
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781137564771
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 197 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
    Series Statement: Global Masculinities
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    Keywords: Culture Study and teaching ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; America Literatures ; Sex (Psychology) ; Gender expression ; Gender identity ; Literature. ; Literature ; Sociology ; Literature Philosophy ; Sociology. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature—Philosophy. ; Culture—Study and teaching. ; America—Literatures. ; USA ; Westernliteratur ; Männlichkeit
    Abstract: The Western genre provides the most widely recognized, iconic images of masculinity in the United States - gun-slinging, laconic white male heroes who emphasize individualism, violence, and an idiosyncratic form of justice. This idealized masculinity has been fused with ideas of national identity and character. Masculinities in Literature of the American West examines how contemporary literary Westerns push back against the coded image of the Western hero, exposing pervasive anxieties about what it means to "act like a man." Contemporary Westerns critique assumptions about innate connections between power, masculinity, and "American" character that influence public rhetoric even in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. These novels struggle with the monumental challenge of all Westerns: the challenge of being human in a place where "being a man" is so strictly coded, so unachievable, so complicit in atrocity, and so desirable that it is worth dying for, worth killing for, or perhaps worth nothing at all
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9781137410245
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 224 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Coughlan, David Ghost writing in contemporary American fiction
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature Philosophy ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; America Literatures ; Fiction ; Fiction. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; America—Literatures. ; Literature—Philosophy. ; USA ; Roman ; Geist ; DeLillo, Don 1936- ; Auster, Paul 1947-2024 ; Roth, Philip 1933-2018 ; Robinson, Marilynne 1944- ; Morrison, Toni 1931-2019
    Abstract: This book examines representations of the specter in American twentieth and twenty-first-century fiction. David Coughlan’s innovative structure has chapters on Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, and Philip Roth alternating with shorter sections detailing the significance of the ghost in the philosophy of Jacques Derrida, particularly within the context of his 1993 text, Specters of Marx. Together, these accounts of phantoms, shadows, haunts, spirit, the death sentence, and hospitality provide a compelling theoretical context in which to read contemporary US literature. Ghost Writing in Contemporary American Fiction argues at every stage that there is no self, no relation to the other, no love, no home, no mourning, no future, no trace of life without the return of the specter—that is, without ghost writing.
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9781137508072
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 234 p. 10 illus., 1 illus. in color)
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    Keywords: Literature ; United States History ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; America Literatures ; Social history ; Social history. ; America—Literatures. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; United States—History.
    Abstract: This book documents American modernism’s efforts to disenchant adult and child readers alike of the essentialist view of childhood as redemptive, originary, and universal. For James, Barnes, Du Bois, and Stein, the twentieth century’s move to position the child at the center of the self and society raised concerns about the shrinking value of maturity and prompted a critical response that imagined childhood and children’s narratives in ways virtually antagonistic to both. In this original study, Michelle H. Phillips argues that American modernism’s widespread critique of childhood led to some of the period’s most meaningful and most misunderstood experiments with interiority, narration, and children’s literature
    Abstract: Introduction -- American Modernism, Childhood, and The Inward Turn -- The “Partagé Child” And The Emergence of The Modernist Novel in What Maisie Knew -- An Innocence Worse Than Evil in The Turn of The Screw -- Nightwood: A Bedtime Story -- The Children of Double Consciousness: From The Souls of Black Folk to The Brownies’ Book -- Drowning In Childhood: Gertrude Stein’s Late Modernism -- Works Cited
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    ISBN: 9781137559654
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 273 p)
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature History and criticism ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; America Literatures ; Literature ; Literature History and criticism ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; America Literatures ; USA ; Kanada ; Literatur ; Kultur ; Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
    Abstract: Merging selected case studies with textual analyses, this book explores the field of Comparative North American Literature through writers diverse as Margaret Atwood and Tim O'Brien. Topics include the North American modernist short story, narratives of the Canada-US border, and a never before released interview with Atwood
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9781137601339
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 265 p, online resource)
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    Series Statement: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Wainwright, Michael, 1965 - Game theory and postwar American literature
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern 20th century ; Fiction ; Political science ; Game theory ; Literature ; USA ; Roman ; Spieltheorie ; Geschichte 1945-1963
    Abstract: If game theory, the mathematical simulation of rational decision-making first axiomatically established by the Hungarian-born American mathematician John von Neumann, is to prove worthy of literary hermeneutics, then critics must be able to apply its models to texts written without a working knowledge of von Neumann's discipline in mind. Reading such iconic novels as Fahrenheit 451, In Cold Blood, and Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye from the perspective of the four most frequently encountered coordination problems - the Stag Hunt, the Prisoner's Dilemma, Chicken, and Deadlock, Game Theory and Postwar American Literature illustrates the significant contribution of mathematical models to literary interpretation. The interdisciplinary approach of this book contributes to an understanding of the historical, political, and social contexts that surround the texts produced in the post-Cold War years, as well as providing a comprehensive model of joining game theory and literary criticism
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    ISBN: 9781137549501
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 264 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
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    DDC: 302.23
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    Keywords: Culture Study and teaching ; United States Study and teaching ; Communication ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; Philosophy
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    ISBN: 9783319319216
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 170 p)
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    Series Statement: Afro-LatinDiasporas
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    Keywords: Culture Study and teaching ; Ethnology Latin America ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; America Literatures ; African Americans ; African Americans. ; Ethnology—Latin America. ; America—Literatures. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; USA ; Literatur ; Hispanos ; Afroamerikanismus ; Ethnische Identität
    Abstract: This book examines contemporary Afro-Latinliterature and its depiction of the multifaceted identity encompassing the separate identifications of Americans and the often-conflicting identities of blacks and Latin@s. The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture highlights the writers’ aims to define Afro-Latin@ identity, to rewrite historical narratives so that they include the Afro-Latin@ experience and to depict the search for belonging. Their writing examines the Afro-Latin@ encounter with race within the US and exposes the trauma resulting from the historical violence of colonialism and slavery
    Abstract: Introduction -- Chapter One: Enduring the Curse: The Legacy of Inter-generational Trauma in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao -- Chapter Two:Haunting Legacies: Forging Afro-Dominican Women’s Identity in Loida Maritza Pérez’s Geographies of Home -- Chapter Three:‘Boricua, Moreno’: Laying Claim to Blackness in the Post-Civil Rights Era -- Chapter Four: Afro-Latin Magical Realism, Historical Memory, Identity, and Space in Angie Cruz’s Soledad and Nelly Rosario’s Song of the Water Saints -- Chapter Five: Memory and the Afro-Cuban Missing Link in H.G. Carrillo’s Loosing My Espanish -- Conclusion: Conceptualizing Afro-Latinidad
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    ISBN: 9781498518338 , 9781498518314
    Language: English
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    DDC: 305.8960730092
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    Keywords: Du Bois, W. E. B. Criticism and interpretation ; Du Bois, William E. B. ; American literature African American authors ; History and criticism ; Blacks Intellectual life 20th century ; Cosmopolitanism in literature ; Weltbürgertum ; Werk ; Schwarze ; Identität ; Universalismus ; Du Bois, William E. B. 1868-1963 ; Werk ; Identität ; Schwarze ; Universalismus ; Weltbürgertum
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    Princeton, NJ [u.a.] : Princeton Univ. Press
    ISBN: 9780691130200 , 0691130205
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 367 S. , Ill. , 25 cm
    DDC: 810.9/896073
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    Keywords: United States History 20th century ; American literature History and criticism 20th century ; American literature African American authors ; History and criticism ; USA Federal Bureau of Investigation ; USA ; Schwarze ; Literatur ; Geschichte 1919-1972
    Abstract: "Few institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover's white-bread Federal Bureau of Investigation. But behind the scenes the FBI's hostility to black protest was energized by fear of and respect for black writing. Drawing on nearly 14,000 pages of newly released FBI files, F.B. Eyes exposes the Bureau's intimate policing of five decades of African American poems, plays, essays, and novels. Starting in 1919, year one of Harlem's renaissance and Hoover's career at the Bureau, secretive FBI "ghostreaders" monitored the latest developments in African American letters. By the time of Hoover's death in 1972, these ghostreaders knew enough to simulate a sinister black literature of their own. The official aim behind the Bureau's close reading was to anticipate political unrest. Yet, as William J. Maxwell reveals, FBI surveillance came to influence the creation and public reception of African American literature in the heart of the twentieth century. Taking his title from Richard Wright's poem "The FB Eye Blues," Maxwell details how the FBI threatened the international travels of African American writers and prepared to jail dozens of them in times of national emergency. All the same, he shows that the Bureau's paranoid style could prompt insightful criticism from Hoover's ghostreaders and creative replies from their literary targets. For authors such as Claude McKay, James Baldwin, and Sonia Sanchez, the suspicion that government spy-critics tracked their every word inspired rewarding stylistic experiments as well as disabling self-censorship. Illuminating both the serious harms of state surveillance and the ways in which imaginative writing can withstand and exploit it, F.B. Eyes is a groundbreaking account of a long-hidden dimension of African American literature."--Publisher information
    Abstract: "Few institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover's white-bread Federal Bureau of Investigation. But behind the scenes the FBI's hostility to black protest was energized by fear of and respect for black writing. Drawing on nearly 14,000 pages of newly released FBI files, F.B. Eyes exposes the Bureau's intimate policing of five decades of African American poems, plays, essays, and novels. Starting in 1919, year one of Harlem's renaissance and Hoover's career at the Bureau, secretive FBI "ghostreaders" monitored the latest developments in African American letters. By the time of Hoover's death in 1972, these ghostreaders knew enough to simulate a sinister black literature of their own. The official aim behind the Bureau's close reading was to anticipate political unrest. Yet, as William J. Maxwell reveals, FBI surveillance came to influence the creation and public reception of African American literature in the heart of the twentieth century. Taking his title from Richard Wright's poem "The FB Eye Blues," Maxwell details how the FBI threatened the international travels of African American writers and prepared to jail dozens of them in times of national emergency. All the same, he shows that the Bureau's paranoid style could prompt insightful criticism from Hoover's ghostreaders and creative replies from their literary targets. For authors such as Claude McKay, James Baldwin, and Sonia Sanchez, the suspicion that government spy-critics tracked their every word inspired rewarding stylistic experiments as well as disabling self-censorship. Illuminating both the serious harms of state surveillance and the ways in which imaginative writing can withstand and exploit it, F.B. Eyes is a groundbreaking account of a long-hidden dimension of African American literature."--Publisher information
    Description / Table of Contents: Part one/thesis one : The birth of the Bureau, coupled with the birth of J. Edgar Hoover, ensured the FBI's attention to African American literaturePart two/thesis two : The FBI's aggressive filing and long study of African American writers was tightly bound to the Agency's successful evolution under Hoover -- Part three/thesis three : The FBI is perhaps the most dedicated and influential forgotten critic of African American literature -- Part four/thesis four : The FBI helped to define the twentieth-century Black Atlantic, both blocking and forcing its flows -- Part five/thesis five : Consciousness of FBI ghostreading fills a deep and characteristic vein of African American literature -- Appendix : FOIA requests for FBI files on African American authors active from 1919 to 1972.
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    ISBN: 1138775118 , 9781138775114
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 309 Seiten , Illustrationen , 24 cm
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    Series Statement: Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature
    DDC: 810.9/3552
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    Keywords: American literature Minority authors ; History and criticism ; Transnationalism in literature ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Minderheitenliteratur ; Ethnische Identität ; Kulturkontakt ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Ethnische Identität
    Abstract: "As new comparative perspectives on race and ethnicity open up, scholars are identifying and exploring fresh topics and questions in an effort to reconceptualize ethnic studies and draw attention to nation-based approaches that may have previously been ignored. This volume, by recognizing the complexity of cultural production in both its diasporic and national contexts, seeks a nuanced critical approach in order to look ahead to the future of transnational literary studies. The majority of the chapters, written by literary and ethnic studies scholars, analyze ethnic literatures of the United States which, given the nation's history of slavery and immigration, form an integral part of mainstream American literature today. While the primary focus is literary, the chapters analyze their specific topics from perspectives drawn from several disciplines, including cultural studies and history. This book is an exciting and insightful resource for scholars with interests in transnationalism, American literature and ethnic studies."--
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    ISBN: 9781138860292
    Language: English
    Pages: VI, 270 S. , Ill.
    Series Statement: Routledge research in transnational indigenous perspectives 1
    Series Statement: Routledge research in transnational indigenous perspectives
    DDC: 810.9/897
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    Keywords: American literature Indian authors ; History and criticism ; Canadian literature Indian authors ; History and criticism ; Indians in literature ; Indians of North America Ethnic identity ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Nordamerika ; Indianer ; Ethnische Identität ; Nordamerika ; Indianer ; Literatur
    Abstract: "In recent years, the interdisciplinary fields of Native North American and Indigenous Studies have reflected, at times even foreshadowed and initiated, many of the influential theoretical discussions in the humanities after the "transnational turn." Global trends of identity politics, performativity, cultural performance and ethics, comparative and revisionist historiography, ecological responsibility and education, as well as issues of social justice have shaped and been shaped by discussions in Native American and Indigenous Studies. This volume brings together distinguished perspectives on these topics by the Native scholars and writers Gerald Vizenor (Anishinaabe), Diane Glancy (Cherokee), and Tomson Highway (Cree), as well as non-Native authorities, such as Chadwick Allen, Hartmut Lutz, and Helmbrecht Breinig. Contributions look at various moments in the cultural history of Native North America--from earthmounds via the Catholic appropriation of a Mohawk saint to the debates about Makah whaling rights--as well as at a diverse spectrum of literary, performative, and visual works of art by John Ross, John Ridge, Elias Boudinot, Emily Pauline Johnson, Leslie Marmon Silko, Emma Lee Warrior, Louise Erdrich, N. Scott Momaday, Stephen Graham Jones, and Gerald Vizenor, among others. In doing so, the selected contributions identify new and recurrent methodological challenges, outline future paths for scholarly inquiry, and explore the intersections between Indigenous Studies and contemporary Literary and Cultural Studies at large"--
    Abstract: "In recent years, the interdisciplinary fields of Native North American and Indigenous Studies have reflected, at times even foreshadowed and initiated, many of the influential theoretical discussions in the humanities after the "transnational turn." Global trends of identity politics, performativity, cultural performance and ethics, comparative and revisionist historiography, ecological responsibility and education, as well as issues of social justice have shaped and been shaped by discussions in Native American and Indigenous Studies. This volume brings together distinguished perspectives on these topics by the Native scholars and writers Gerald Vizenor (Anishinaabe), Diane Glancy (Cherokee), and Tomson Highway (Cree), as well as non-Native authorities, such as Chadwick Allen, Hartmut Lutz, and Helmbrecht Breinig. Contributions look at various moments in the cultural history of Native North America--from earthmounds via the Catholic appropriation of a Mohawk saint to the debates about Makah whaling rights--as well as at a diverse spectrum of literary, performative, and visual works of art by John Ross, John Ridge, Elias Boudinot, Emily Pauline Johnson, Leslie Marmon Silko, Emma Lee Warrior, Louise Erdrich, N. Scott Momaday, Stephen Graham Jones, and Gerald Vizenor, among others. In doing so, the selected contributions identify new and recurrent methodological challenges, outline future paths for scholarly inquiry, and explore the intersections between Indigenous Studies and contemporary Literary and Cultural Studies at large"--
    Note: Literaturangaben , Literary transmotion : survivance and totemic motion in Native American Indian art and literature , First Nations writing : a personal history , Reading through peoplehood : towards a culturally responsive approach to Native American literary discourse , Evil and sacrifice in Native North American literature : Johnson, Momaday, Vizenor, Erdrich , Games Indians play : reflections on sports as cultural practice and historical template in contemporary Native American literature and film , Re-scripting indigenous America : earthworks in native art, literature, community , In the shadow of the Marshall court : nineteenth-century Cherokee conceptualizations of the law , A "whale" of a problem : indigenous tradition vs. ecological taboo , Globalizing indigenous histories : comparison, connectedness, and new contexts for Native American history , Catherine Tekakwitha : the construction of a saint , Memory, community, and historicity in Joseph Bruchac's The journal of Jesse Smoke, a Cherokee boy, The Trail of Tears, 1838 , "Indianthusiasts" and "mythbusters" : (de-)constructing transatlantic others
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