American literature
American Literature for a Post-American Era
... in American Studies—dislodging the study of American literature and culture from the parochial framework of the nation-state—now seems at once precipitate and ...dogged American Studies seems ...
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The techniques of psychological novel in 20th century American literature. A descriptive study
... of American literature and its ...century American novel and tries to find out the techniques of psychological novel which include the following: stream of consciousness, flashback and interior ...
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Violence and frontier in twentieth century Native American literature
... Native American criticism, Womack argues that the new American Indian (Literary) Nationalist theory/criticism developing in the US marks a major departure from the breakthrough literary production and ...
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Study on Goal Connotation and Hierarchical Orientation of British & American Literature Teaching
... and American literature is not very clear, the level of the target content is vague, and so the British and American literature teaching reform progressed ...and American ...
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Transforming Resistance: Strategies for Teaching Race in the Ethnic American Literature Classroom
... ethnic American literature courses, my students and I engage in critical inquiries about our subject positions through multiple ways, including the aforementioned name stories and course surveys as well as ...
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"Mother weights" and lost fathers: parents in South Asian American literature
... Asian American literature, one might read such ‘fragmentation’ as the chaotic emotional effects of emigration (in such first-generation texts as Manhattan Music, Mango Season, and Love, Stars) and as an ...
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Reading through the Lens of Music: African-American Literature and Music
... their literature and ...African-American literature and how it was manifested in characters, structures, and themes that African- American writers promoted into their literary ...
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Living in Two Languages: The Challenges to English in Contemporary American Literature
... understandable through context or direct translation, as demonstrated in the following example when the Mexican-American narrator Celaya recalls a childhood memory: “They’ve forgotten about me when the ...
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Image and Textual Design Strategies in Native American Literature
... The multifaceted concept of "the center" the fundamental importance of spatial cagegories in the narratives of contemporary writers working from Native American cultural heritages [9, 10]. The concepts of ...
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Race, politics and the frontier in American literature, 1783-1837
... of American thought and culture, the frontier has always been an imaginative construct, shaped by the cultural preconceptions — commercial, political, religious — of Europeans or white ...in American ...
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Staging Civil Rights: African American Literature, Performance, and innovation
... Staging Civil Rights builds on this triangulated paradigm of revealing in which literature and performance can “furnish forth” that which is new, that which more closely approximates a certain “truth.” It takes ...
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Species Panic: Interspecies Erotics in Post-1900 American Literature
... One rarely considered spinoff of the species panic running throughout both sides of the fabricated human-slave-animal continuum is the proximity of slaves to working animals in the agrarian culture of the antebellum ...
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Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865 to Present
... Bierce was an iconoclast, a writer who was fiercely independent and who, using the power of his pen, cynically derided current trends in literature. He was sometimes referred to as “Bitter Bierce,” and his Devil’s ...
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Cultural genetics : theories of inheritance and nineteenth-century American literature
... In her children’s handbook to the study of botany, Almira H. L. Phelps explains to her young readers how “the study of botany will teach you to be systematic in other things: you will find that men of science have so ...
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The American Dime Museum: Bodily Spectacle and Social Midways in Turn-of-the-Century American Literature and Culture
... and American than one could be both Communist and ...African American were to dare to proffer forth a vision of what it means to be black, unless that vision was congruent with the white vision, it would be ...
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Becoming America: An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution
... When our fathers, käeto·‑we, tcu‑eto·we, mu‑eto·we, łhe·‑eto‑we, the society priests, go out into the daylight of their sun father, that you shall be the one to look for their road, for [r] ...
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"Reciprocity is everything": The Female Journey to Elective Bonding in African-American Literature
... This thesis identifies the severe impact of compulsory heterosexuality in the African- American community. In particular, I explore the ways in which compulsory heterosexuality is tied to the legacy of slavery and ...
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Salinger’s Alien and Lonely Characters in American Literature
... Modernist writers became dissatisfied with linear plots and clear resolutions and used instead of open and often unresolved endings. They also moved away from the authoritative omniscient point of view to the ...
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Indians, environment, and identity on the borders of American literature
... the discussion between the two with dark humor; the characters criticize slavery because it forces them to find work for slaves to do and creates a value for black bodies that prevents Indians from being able to ...
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Infectious Affect: The Phobic Imagination In American Literature
... gothic literature of the nineteenth ...in American fiction where dark interiorities, diverse in scope, create gothic moods and landscapes by indulging in the perspectival unreliability of compromised ...
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