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  1. Nature's Nation
    Published: [2014]; ©1967
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

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    ISBN: 9780674865549
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    Edition: 2nd printing 1974. Reprint 2014
    Other subjects: Geografie, Reisen; Geschichte; Intellectual life; Kultur; Literatur; Littérature américaine; Philosophie américaine; Philosophy, American; Puritans; Religion; Philosophy, American; United States -- Intellectual life; United States -- Religion; HISTORY / United States / General
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  2. <<The>> digital banal
    new media and American literature and culture
    Author: Dinnen, Zara
    Published: 2022; © 2018
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

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  3. Nature's Nation
    Published: [1967]
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

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  4. Color and Culture
    Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual
    Published: [2021]; © 1998
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

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    ISBN: 9780674042339
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African-American; African Americans in literature; African Americans; American literature; American literature; American literature; Blacks; Langage et culture; Language and culture; Language and culture; Littérature américaine; Littérature américaine; Noirs américains dans la littérature; Noirs américains; Noirs
    Scope: 1 online resource (365 pages)
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  5. Special relationships
    Anglo-American affinities and antagonisms 1854-1936
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Manchester University Press, Manchester ; New York ; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave

    This collection of essays by leading scholars of American literature and culture has emerged out of recent debates on the historical, geographical, symbolic, and cultural significance of the Atlantic, as well as new work in the area of Transatlantic... more

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    This collection of essays by leading scholars of American literature and culture has emerged out of recent debates on the historical, geographical, symbolic, and cultural significance of the Atlantic, as well as new work in the area of Transatlantic Studies

     

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  6. Real folks
    race and genre in the Great Depression
    Published: [2011]; ©2011
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham, NC

    During the Great Depression, people from across the political spectrum sought to ground American identity in the rural know-how of "the folk." At the same time, certain writers, filmmakers, and intellectuals combined documentary and satire into a... more

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    During the Great Depression, people from across the political spectrum sought to ground American identity in the rural know-how of "the folk." At the same time, certain writers, filmmakers, and intellectuals combined documentary and satire into a hybrid genre that revealed the folk as an anxious product of corporate capitalism, rather than an antidote to commercial culture. This book analyzes the invention of the folk as figures of authenticity in the political culture of the 1930s, as well as the critiques that emerged in response. Diverse artists and intellectuals-including the novelists George Schuyler and Nathanael West, the filmmaker Preston Sturges, and the anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston-illuminated the fabrication and exploitation of folk authenticity in New Deal and commercial narratives. They skewered the racist populisms that prevented interracial working-class solidarity, prophesized the patriotic function of the folk for the nation-state in crisis, and made their readers and viewers feel self-conscious about the desire for authenticity

     

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    ISBN: 1478090863; 9781478090861
    Edition: [Open access version]
    Subjects: Folklore; Littérature américaine; Littérature et folklore; American literature; American literature; Amerikanisches Englisch; Depression; Folklore; Literatur; Literatur; Literature and folklore; Motiv; Volkskultur; Wirtschaftskrise; American literature; American literature; Folklore; Literature and folklore
    Other subjects: Geschichte 1929-1941; 1900-1999; Geschichte 1929-1941; United States / History / 1933-1945; États-Unis / Histoire / 1933-1945; United States; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
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    "A combination madhouse, burlesque show and Coney Island" : the color question in George Schuyler's Black no more -- "Inanimate hideosities" : the burlesque of racial capitalism in Nathanael West's A cool million -- "The last American frontier" : mapping the folk in the Federal Writers' Project's Florida : a guide to the southernmost state -- "Ah gives myself de privilege to go" : navigating the field and the folk in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and men -- "Am I laughing"? : burlesque incongruities of genre, gender, and audience in Preston Sturges's Sullivan's travels -- Afterpiece : the Coen brothers' Ol'-timey blues in O brother, where art thou?

  7. American Creoles
    the Francophone Caribbean and the American South
    Published: ©2012

    The Francophone Caribbean and the American South are sites born of the plantation, the common matrix for the diverse nations and territories of the circum-Caribbean. This book takes as its premise that the basic configuration of the plantation, in... more

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    The Francophone Caribbean and the American South are sites born of the plantation, the common matrix for the diverse nations and territories of the circum-Caribbean. This book takes as its premise that the basic configuration of the plantation, in terms of its physical layout and the social relations it created, was largely the same in the Caribbean and the American South. Essays written by leading authorities in the field examine the cultural, social, and historical affinities between the Francophone Caribbean and the American South, including Louisiana, which among the Southern states has had a quite particular attachment to France and the Francophone world. The essays focus on issues of history, language, politics and culture in various forms, notably literature, music and theatre

     

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  8. Nature's Nation
    Published: [2014]; ©1967
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

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    ISBN: 9780674865549
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    Edition: 2nd printing 1974. Reprint 2014
    Subjects: Geografie, Reisen; Geschichte; Intellectual life; Kultur; Literatur; Littérature américaine; Philosophie américaine; Philosophy, American; Puritans; Religion; United States -- Intellectual life; United States -- Religion; HISTORY / United States / General
    Scope: 1 online resource (314 p.)
  9. A history of American literature 1900-1950 /
    Published: 2024.; ©2024
    Publisher:  Wiley-Blackwell,, Hoboken, NJ :

    "For Henry Adams writing in The Education of Henry Adams (1918) his nineteenth century education had left him completely unprepared to understand the new century that he saw around him, and he feared that the impersonal technologies that... more

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    "For Henry Adams writing in The Education of Henry Adams (1918) his nineteenth century education had left him completely unprepared to understand the new century that he saw around him, and he feared that the impersonal technologies that characterized the new century would provide little inspiration for artists. The change would go on to be even greater than Adams had imagined. This volume of the Blackwell History of American Literature covers the period when the USA became an international power, at first regionally and then following the First Word War on the global stage. American literature explores the impact of this change upon questions of community, identity, and values from both regional and international perspectives. The early years of the 1900s saw the final works of Henry James and Mark Twain, both writers prefiguring in their own ways the challenge to comfortable certainties that would shortly come with modernism. The ways in which writers dramatized such change will be a major theme of the history. Wharton and Dreiser developed the strategies of realism and naturalism inherited from Crane and Norris. With the work of such figures as Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, and Faulkner the acceptance of limitation, Anderson's "little things" in his Winesburg, Ohio, found formal parallels in the writers' challenges to the conventions of nineteenth century unities. Responding to the work of Lawrence, Joyce and Woolf among others, and the impact of Freud and new ideas in science, they looked for what still might be certain in a world of increasingly rapid change, and raised questions about what value or use any such limited certainties might have. Modernist experiment is much more muted in the work of Willa Cather, although the themes are similar, and are explored to different degrees by other writers too--the dangers of romanticizing the past, and the challenges of the transition from a pastoral, pioneer culture to an industrial one"--

     

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    ISBN: 9781119072782; 1119072786; 9781119100935; 1119100933; 9781119072775; 1119072778
    Series: Wiley-Blackwell histories of American literature
    Subjects: American literature; Littérature américaine
    Scope: 1 online resource (xiv, 482 pages).
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    American literature in 1900 -- The twenties : becoming international -- The thirties : depression and a prelude to war -- War : "thus dawn the 1940s..." -- Into mid-century : Native American literature 1920-50.

  10. A companion to modernist literature and culture /
    Published: 2006.
    Publisher:  Blackwell Pub.,, Malden, MA ;

    A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture is an essential resource for students and teachers of modernism. The volume brings together entries on elements of modernist culture, contemporary intellectual and aesthetic movements, and all the... more

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    A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture is an essential resource for students and teachers of modernism. The volume brings together entries on elements of modernist culture, contemporary intellectual and aesthetic movements, and all the genres of modernist writing and art.

     

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Contributor: Bradshaw, David,; Dettmar, Kevin J. H.,
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1405154675; 9781405154673; 0631204350; 9780631204350; 9780470996331; 0470996331; 9781405165372; 1405165375; 1280361875; 9781280361876
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    Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; ; 39
    Subjects: English literature; Modernism (Literature); American literature; Littérature anglaise; Modernisme (Littérature); Littérature américaine; LITERARY CRITICISM; American literature.; English literature.; Modernism (Literature); Moderne; Literatur
    Scope: 1 online resource (xxi, 593 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Notes on Contributors; Introduction Kevin J.H. Dettmar; 1 Philosophy Jean-Michel Rabaté; 2 Religion Pericles Lewis; 3 Politics Tyrus Miller; 4 The Physical Sciences Michael H. Whitworth; 5 The Biological Sciences Angelique Richardson; 6 Technology Sara Danius; 7 Psychology Perry Meisel; 8 Anthropology Patricia Rae; 9 Obscenity and Censorship David Bradshaw; 10 Language R.M. Berry; 11 Geography Nico Israel; 12 Publishing Mark S. Morrisson; 13 Sex and Sexuality Liesl Olson; 14 Literary Symbolism Marshall C. Olds; 15 Dada Robert Short; 16 Futurism Tyrus Miller; 17 Vorticism Alan Munton.

  11. Transmotion.
    Published: 2015-
    Publisher:  University of Kent,, [Kent, England] :

    "Transmotion is a biannual, fully and permanently open-access journal inspired by the work of Gerald Vizenor. Transmotion will publish new scholarship focused on theoretical, experimental, postmodernist, and avant-garde writing produced by Native... more

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    "Transmotion is a biannual, fully and permanently open-access journal inspired by the work of Gerald Vizenor. Transmotion will publish new scholarship focused on theoretical, experimental, postmodernist, and avant-garde writing produced by Native American and First Nations authors, as well as book reviews on relevant work in Indigenous Studies, and new creative work that seeks to push boundaries" -- Transmotion website, About page (viewed April 29, 2018)

     

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  12. The Constitution of the United States :
    In Some of Its Fundamental Aspects /
    Published: [1928]; ©1928
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press,, Cambridge, Mass.:

  13. Secular Revelations :
    The Constitution of the United States and Classic American Literature /
    Published: [2005]; ©2005.
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press,, Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] :

    The United States Constitution is a quintessentially political document. Yet, until now, no one has seriously considered the formative influence of this document on American cultural life. In this ambitious book, Mitchell Meltzer demonstrates the... more

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    The United States Constitution is a quintessentially political document. Yet, until now, no one has seriously considered the formative influence of this document on American cultural life. In this ambitious book, Mitchell Meltzer demonstrates the extent to which the Constitution is both source and inspiration for America's greatest literary masterworks.

     

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  14. The Language of War :
    Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the Civil War through World War II /
  15. Writing for an Endangered World :
    Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and Beyond /
    Published: [2001]; ©2001.
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press,, Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] :

    The environmental imagination does not stop short at the edge of the woods. Nor should our understanding of it, as Lawrence Buell makes powerfully clear in his new book that aims to reshape the field of literature and environmental studies.... more

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    The environmental imagination does not stop short at the edge of the woods. Nor should our understanding of it, as Lawrence Buell makes powerfully clear in his new book that aims to reshape the field of literature and environmental studies. Emphasizing the influence of the physical environment on individual and collective perception, his book thus provides the theoretical underpinnings for an ecocriticism now reaching full power, and does so in remarkably clear and concrete ways. Writing for an Endangered World offers a conception of the physical environment--whether built or natural--as simultaneously found and constructed, and treats imaginative representations of it as acts of both discovery and invention. A number of the chapters develop this idea through parallel studies of figures identified with either "natural" or urban settings: John Muir and Jane Addams; Aldo Leopold and William Faulkner; Robinson Jeffers and Theodore Dreiser; Wendell Berry and Gwendolyn Brooks. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers, but ranging freely across national borders, his book reimagines city and country as a single complex landscape.Reviews of this book: Author of the widely influential The Environmental Imagination, Buell is a major figure in contemporary ecocriticism. Here, in broadening the scope of his earlier book, Buell blurs the usual distinction between natural and built environments. Exploring how a variety of texts imagine urban, rural, ocean, and desert places, he convincingly argues that literary imagination is powerfully shaped by--and shapes--a single, complex environment that is both found and constructed.Buell's book is important: it points ecocriticism in profoundly new and welcome directions.--W. Conlogue, Choice.

     

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  16. The Novel :
    A Biography /
    Published: [2014].; ©2014.
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press,, Cambridge, Mass.:

    The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally boundless, with contributions from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, India, the Caribbean and Southern Africa and... more

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    The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally boundless, with contributions from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, India, the Caribbean and Southern Africa and encompassing a range of genres, the story of the novel in English unfolds like a varied landscape that invites exploration rather than a linear journey. Michael Schmidt does full justice to its complexity.

     

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780674369054
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    Subjects: American literature.; Englische Literatur Amerikas.; American literature; Literary Studies, general.; Literary Studies.; Littérature américaine
    Scope: 1 online resource(1200p.) :, illustrations.
  17. Fascinating Rhythm :
    Reading Jazz in American Writing /
    Published: [2006].; ©2006.
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press,, Princeton, N.J. :

    How have American writers written about jazz, and how has jazz influenced American literature? In Fascinating Rhythm, David Yaffe explores the relationship and interplay between jazz and literature, looking at jazz musicians and the themes literature... more

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    How have American writers written about jazz, and how has jazz influenced American literature? In Fascinating Rhythm, David Yaffe explores the relationship and interplay between jazz and literature, looking at jazz musicians and the themes literature has garnered from them by appropriating the style, tones, and innovations of jazz, and demonstrating that the poetics of jazz has both been assimilated into, and deeply affected, the development of twentieth-century American literature. Yaffe explores how Jewish novelists such as Norman Mailer, J. D. Salinger, and Philip Roth engaged issues of racial, ethnic, and American authenticity by way of jazz; how Ralph Ellison's descriptions of Louis Armstrong led to a "neoconservative" movement in contemporary jazz; how poets such as Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, Langston Hughes, and Frank O'Hara were variously inspired by the music; and how memoirs by Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus, and Miles Davis both reinforced and redeemed the red light origins of jazz. The book confronts the current jazz discourse and shows how poets and novelists can be placed in it--often with problematic results. Fascinating Rhythm stops to listen for the music, demonstrating how jazz continues to speak for the American writer.

     

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  18. A history of American literature 1900-1950 /
    Published: 2024.; ©2024
    Publisher:  Wiley-Blackwell,, Hoboken, NJ :

    "For Henry Adams writing in The Education of Henry Adams (1918) his nineteenth century education had left him completely unprepared to understand the new century that he saw around him, and he feared that the impersonal technologies that... more

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    "For Henry Adams writing in The Education of Henry Adams (1918) his nineteenth century education had left him completely unprepared to understand the new century that he saw around him, and he feared that the impersonal technologies that characterized the new century would provide little inspiration for artists. The change would go on to be even greater than Adams had imagined. This volume of the Blackwell History of American Literature covers the period when the USA became an international power, at first regionally and then following the First Word War on the global stage. American literature explores the impact of this change upon questions of community, identity, and values from both regional and international perspectives. The early years of the 1900s saw the final works of Henry James and Mark Twain, both writers prefiguring in their own ways the challenge to comfortable certainties that would shortly come with modernism. The ways in which writers dramatized such change will be a major theme of the history. Wharton and Dreiser developed the strategies of realism and naturalism inherited from Crane and Norris. With the work of such figures as Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, and Faulkner the acceptance of limitation, Anderson's "little things" in his Winesburg, Ohio, found formal parallels in the writers' challenges to the conventions of nineteenth century unities. Responding to the work of Lawrence, Joyce and Woolf among others, and the impact of Freud and new ideas in science, they looked for what still might be certain in a world of increasingly rapid change, and raised questions about what value or use any such limited certainties might have. Modernist experiment is much more muted in the work of Willa Cather, although the themes are similar, and are explored to different degrees by other writers too--the dangers of romanticizing the past, and the challenges of the transition from a pastoral, pioneer culture to an industrial one"--

     

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    ISBN: 9781119072782; 1119072786; 9781119100935; 1119100933; 9781119072775; 1119072778
    Series: Wiley-Blackwell histories of American literature
    Subjects: American literature; Littérature américaine
    Scope: 1 online resource (xiv, 482 pages).
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    American literature in 1900 -- The twenties : becoming international -- The thirties : depression and a prelude to war -- War : "thus dawn the 1940s..." -- Into mid-century : Native American literature 1920-50.

  19. Label me Latina/o.
    Published: 2011-
    Publisher:  Dr. Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez :, Lakewood, NJ : ; Dr. Michele Shaul,

    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Zentralbibliothek
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    Language: English; Spanish
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
    Subjects: American literature; Hispanic American literature (Spanish); American literature; Hispanic American literature (Spanish); Littérature américaine; Littérature américaine (espagnole)
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    "Journal of twentieth & twenty-first centuries Latino literary production."

  20. The Cambridge companion to Jewish American literature
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K

    This book addresses a wide array of themes and approaches to the distinct yet multifaceted body of Jewish American literature. Essays cover writing from the 1700s to major contemporary writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. Topics covered... more

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    This book addresses a wide array of themes and approaches to the distinct yet multifaceted body of Jewish American literature. Essays cover writing from the 1700s to major contemporary writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. Topics covered include immigration and acculturation, Yiddish and Hebrew literature, and the Holocaust Introduction Jewish American literatures in the making Hana Wirth-Nesher Michael P. Kramer -- Beginnings and ends: the origins of Jewish American literary history Michael P. Kramer -- Imagining Judaism in America Susannah Heschel -- Of crucibles and grandfathers: the East European immigrants Priscilla Wald -- Coney Island, USA: America in the Yiddish literary imagination David G. Roskies -- Hebrew literature in America Alan Mintz -- Traces of the past: multilingual Jewish American writing Hana Wirth-Nesher -- Accents of the future: Jewish American popular culture Donald Weber -- Jewish American poetry Maeera Y. Shreiber -- Jewish American writers on the left Alan Wald -- Jewish American Renaissance Ruth R. Wisse -- Holocaust and the Jewish American imagination Emily Miller Budick -- Jewish American women writers and the race question Susan Gubar -- On contemporary literary theory and Jewish American poetics Shira Wolosky -- Identity matters: contemporary Jewish American writing Tresa Grauer

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0511063113; 0511071574; 9780511071577; 0521792932; 9780521792936; 0521796997; 9780521796996; 0511119135; 9780511119132; 9780511063114; 0511056788; 9780511056789
    RVK Categories: HU 1729
    Series: EBSCOhost eBook Collection
    Subjects: American literature; Jews; Judaism and literature; Judaism in literature; Jews in literature; Littérature américaine; Juifs; Judai͏̈sme dans la littérature; Juifs dans la littérature; Judaism in literature; American literature; Jews in literature; Jews; Judaism and literature; American literature; Jews; Judaism and literature; Judaism in literature.; Jews in literature.; American literature; History and criticism; Jews; Juden; Literatur
    Scope: xvi, 296 p, 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2004

    Introduction:Jewish American literatures in the making /Hana Wirth-Nesher,Michael P. Kramer --Beginnings and ends: the origins of Jewish American literary history /Michael P. Kramer --Imagining Judaism in America /Susannah Heschel --Of crucibles and grandfathers: the East European immigrants /Priscilla Wald --Coney Island, USA: America in the Yiddish literary imagination /David G. Roskies --Hebrew literature in America /Alan Mintz --Traces of the past: multilingual Jewish American writing /Hana Wirth-Nesher --Accents of the future: Jewish American popular culture /Donald Weber --Jewish American poetry /Maeera Y. Shreiber --Jewish American writers on the left /Alan Wald --Jewish American Renaissance /Ruth R. Wisse --Holocaust and the Jewish American imagination /Emily Miller Budick --Jewish American women writers and the race question /Susan Gubar --On contemporary literary theory and Jewish American poetics /Shira Wolosky --Identity matters: contemporary Jewish American writing /Tresa Grauer.

    Hana Wirth-Nesher,: Introduction:Jewish American literatures in the making

    Michael P. Kramer: Beginnings and ends: the origins of Jewish American literary history

    Susannah Heschel: Imagining Judaism in America

    Priscilla Wald: Of crucibles and grandfathers: the East European immigrants

    David G. Roskies: Coney Island, USA: America in the Yiddish literary imagination

    Alan Mintz: Hebrew literature in America

    Hana Wirth-Nesher: Traces of the past: multilingual Jewish American writing

    Donald Weber: Accents of the future: Jewish American popular culture

    Maeera Y. Shreiber: Jewish American poetry

    Alan Wald: Jewish American writers on the left

    Ruth R. Wisse: Jewish American Renaissance

    Emily Miller Budick: Holocaust and the Jewish American imagination

    Susan Gubar: Jewish American women writers and the race question

    Shira Wolosky: On contemporary literary theory and Jewish American poetics

    Tresa Grauer.: Identity matters: contemporary Jewish American writing

  21. Connections
    Published: 1970
    Publisher:  Univ. of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Mich.

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0472949004
    RVK Categories: HD 143 ; HG 260
    Subjects: Littérature américaine; Littérature anglaise; American literature; English literature
    Scope: IX, 202 S.
  22. Nature's Nation
    Published: [1967]
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

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  23. William Dean Howells
    A Study
    Published: [1924]
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

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  24. Color and Culture
    Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual
    Published: [2021]; © 1998
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780674042339
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African-American; African Americans in literature; African Americans; American literature; American literature; American literature; Blacks; Langage et culture; Language and culture; Language and culture; Littérature américaine; Littérature américaine; Noirs américains dans la littérature; Noirs américains; Noirs
    Scope: 1 online resource (365 pages)
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    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021)

  25. Supernatural forces
    belief, difference, and power in contemporary works by ethnic women
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, Mass

    The relationship between humans and their gods has always been a primary theme in literature. Until recently, however, books in the American literary canon have rarely been concerned with any supernatural beings other than the Judeo-Christian god. In... more

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    The relationship between humans and their gods has always been a primary theme in literature. Until recently, however, books in the American literary canon have rarely been concerned with any supernatural beings other than the Judeo-Christian god. In this book Bonnie Winsbro moves beyond that narrow focus to examine the power of the supernatural in the works of six ethnic writers: Lee Smith's Oral History, Louise Erdrich's Tracks, Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, Gloria Naylor's Mama Day, Toni Morrison's Beloved, and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts. By selecting these authors, Winsbro provides a multicultural perspective - Appalachian, Native American, African American, and Chinese American - on the internal turmoil experienced by ethnic individuals when their belief systems clash with those of family, community, or dominant culture. Although their responses to such conflicts differ, Winsbro argues, all six authors believe that personal power is acquired through self-definition, the process by which one constructs one's own reality as a foundation for living in one's own center rather than on another's margins. By analyzing works that treat seriously a belief in such supernatural figures as witches, healers, and ghosts, Winsbro seeks to show that the contemporary world is not defined by one reality - a rationalistic, scientific reality, for example, or a Judeo-Christian reality - but by many realities. Indeed, acknowledging the coexistence, collision, and coalescence of multiple realities is one of the distinguishing features of postmodern life

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0585139059; 9780585139050
    Subjects: American literature; Women and literature; American literature; Ethnic groups in literature; Supernatural in literature; Écrits de femmes américains; Femmes et littérature; Littérature américaine; Surnaturel dans la littérature; American literature; American literature; Ethnic groups in literature; Femmes et littérature; Littérature américaine; Supernatural in literature; Surnaturel dans la littérature; Women and literature; Écrits de femmes américains
    Scope: Online Ressource (xi, 218 p.)
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-210) and index. - Description based on print version record

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