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  • - Class, Authorship and the Asian American Ethnic Enclave
    af Yoonmee Chang
    433,95 - 1.572,95 kr.

    Explores the hidden or unspoken class inequalities faced by Asian Americans, while insightfully analysing the effect such notions have had on their literary voices. Chang discusses texts from the late nineteenth century to the present that cover a range of contexts.

  • - New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture
    af Catherine Keyser
    432,95 - 827,95 kr.

  • - Literature, minstrelry and the Black-Jewish imaginary
    af Lori Harrison-Kahan
    434,95 - 1.651,95 kr.

  • - Bonds of nation, race and allegiance in nineteenth-century America
    af Elizabeth Duquette
    437,95 - 1.647,95 kr.

    Examines the issue of national affiliation in cases where two nations have become one or one nation has become two. It uses the US Civil War as a case study to demonstrate loyalty and allegiance can be used. It analyses literary works written during and after the conflict to reveal that post-war literature was profoundly shaped by loyalty.

  • - Incest, Miscegenation and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1880-1930
    af Jolie A. Sheffer
    440,95 - 1.652,95 kr.

  • - Narratives of Latina Deviance and Defiance
    af Laura Halperin
    454,95 - 1.651,95 kr.

  • - Slavery, Rebellion, and Living Death
    af Sarah Juliet Lauro
    435,95 - 1.654,95 kr.

    Provides a more complete history of the zombie than has ever been told, explaining how the myth's migration to the New World was facilitated by the transatlantic slave trade, and reveals the real-world import of storytelling, reminding us of the power of myths and mythmaking, and the high stakes of appropriation and homage.

  • - Gender, Mass Culture, and Form
    af Amy Moorman Robbins
    417,95 - 1.646,95 kr.

  • - A Geography Of Twentieth-Century American Literature And Culture
    af Thomas Heise
    353,95 kr.

  • - Birth Control Politics and Literature Between the World Wars
    af Layne Parish Craig
    440,95 - 1.647,95 kr.

  • - The Corporation in Postmodern Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture
    af Ralph Clare
    533,95 - 2.043,95 kr.

  • - Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature
    af Emily J. Lordi
    460,95 - 1.650,95 kr.

  • - Narrative Appropriation in American Literature
    af Jennifer A. Williamson
    460,95 - 1.650,95 kr.

  • - Disability, Narrative, and the Body Politic
    af Emily Russell
    470,95 kr.

    Drawing from major figures in American literature, including Mark Twain, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and David Foster Wallace, as well as introducing texts from the emerging canon of disability studies, this demonstrates the place of disability at the core of American ideals.

  • - Power, Representation, and the Fiction of the Mass Worker
    af William Scott
    437,95 - 1.650,95 kr.

    Explores how a major change in the nature and forms of working-class power affected novels about U.S. industrial workers in the first half of the twentieth century.

  • - The Fictional Small Town in the Age of Globalization
    af Ryan Poll
    432,95 - 1.669,95 kr.

    Argues that the small town, as evoked by the image of ""Main Street"", is not a relic of the past but rather a metaphorical screen upon which the US's ""everyday"" stories and subjects are projected on both a national and global level. It brings together a wide range of literary, cultural, and political texts to examine how the small town is used to imagine and reproduce the nation.

  • af Gabriel A. Briggs
    423,95 - 2.043,95 kr.

    Makes the compelling case that the New Negro first emerged long before the Great Migration to the North. The New Negro in the Old South reconstructs the vibrant black community that developed in Nashville after the Civil War, demonstrating how it played a pivotal role in shaping the economic, intellectual, social, and political lives of African Americans in subsequent decades.

  • - Assimilation and Resistance in U.S. Education
    af Tova Cooper
    507,95 - 1.652,95 kr.

  • - Before Life and Choice, 1880-1940
    af Karen Weingarten
    409,95 - 1.647,95 kr.