American Literature – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 6

David Duchovny
Holy Cow

A rollicking, globe-trotting adventure with a twist: a four-legged heroine you won't soon forget. Elsie Bovary is a cow, and a pretty happy one at that-her long, lazy days are spent eating, napping, and c…

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Getting Naked with Harry Crews

In twenty-six interviews conducted between 1972 and 1997, novelist Harry Crews tells the truth -- about why and how he writes, about the literary influences on his own work, about the writers he admires (…

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Ashley M Jones
What the Mirror Said

When did you feel the pull of poetry? For Ashley M. Jones, the moment she knew she would be a poet was at seven years old--reciting "Harriet Tubman" by Eloise Greenfield. That moment, that poem,…

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Yéil Kundayaayí, Adventures of Raven

Raven is a legendary cultural hero, world-maker, and trickster figure among the Tlingit of Southeast Alaska. Here his adventures appear for the first time in the original language -- transcribed directly …

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Penny Cartwright,
Irony, Agency and the Global Imaginary in Post-2000 Nigerian and Kenyan Literature

An examination of alternate imaginaries of 'the global' in post-millennium anglophone African literature and the differing forms of agency that these imaginaries produce.Irony, Agency and the Global Imagi…

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Kansas Matters

An anthology of poetry and prose from thirty-five of today's leading literary voices from the Sunflower State, brought together to explore how Kansas makes us feel and why we're proud to call it home.Kans…

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Jim Crow Modernism

The "problem of the twentieth century" was one of the most important factors in the development of American modernism. W. E. B. Du Bois, of course, identified that problem as "the color lin…

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Gemma Tizzard
Grace of the Empire State

In this "thrilling, heartbreaking" (Annie Lyons, author of The Air Raid Club) debut novel set during the Great Depression in 1930s New York, a daring dancer must take her twin brother's place as…

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Jerald Walker
Magically Black and Other Essays

*** Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay**** ****Semi-Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor**** ****Finalist for the New England Book Award**** ****Longli…

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Brittany Packnett Cunningham
We Are Like Those Who Dream

Illuminating speeches by famous black women that offer wisdom and clarity, solace and inspiration--curated by, and with personal essays from, a leader whose "voice is going to be making a difference …

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Pilar Martinez Benedi, Ralph James Savarese,
Herman Melville and Neurodiversity, or Why Hunt Difference with Harpoons?

Focusing on the difference between lower-level perceptual processes in the "neural unconscious" and higher-order thought in the frontal lobes, this open access book shows how Herman Melville sou…

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Xavier Kalck,
American Objectivist Poetry Across the 20th Century

Offering a new introduction to an important yet overlooked group of 20th century American poets, this book re-examines their work as a group while giving special attention to their individual trajectories.

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Francisco E Robles
Coalition Literature

"In a series of incisive readings, Francisco E. Robles provides a literary history of midcentury US multiethnic literature, tracing the shift from coalitional aesthetics to multiculturalism by focusi…

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Francisco E Robles
Coalition Literature

"In a series of incisive readings, Francisco E. Robles provides a literary history of midcentury US multiethnic literature, tracing the shift from coalitional aesthetics to multiculturalism by focusi…

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Whit Frazier Peterson
The Image and the Fire

Racial identity and literary form in the modernist anthologyThe Image and the Fire examines the coterie anthology---a small, outsider literary collection---as a key, yet understudied, instrument of litera…

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Maggie Mckinley
The Art of Looking Back

In The Art of Looking Back, Maggie McKinley evaluates the complex nature of nostalgia in the canon of Joan Didion, a theme that has often been taken for granted, oversimplified, and misunderstood. In reas…

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Sandra Guzman
Daughters of Latin America

"Full of heart and wisdom, Daughters of Latin America sheds a brilliant light on Latine and Caribbean women writers across time, space, languages, and genres."---World Literature TodaySpanning t…

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Philip Metres
Dispatches from the Land of Erasure

Drawn from a decade of writing and conversations by Arab American poet and writer Philip Metres, Dispatches from the Land of Erasure redefines the writer's role as a catalyst for justice and a resister of…

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Dan Simon
Ashland

★ "Powerfully poetic...a testament to American virtues--and flaws."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A deeply moving family story unfolding in richly evocative prose and a poetic portrayal of a …

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Chaun Webster
Without Terminus

A dazzlingly inventive account of kinship and dispossession by a two-time Minnesota Book Award-winning authorIn his first work of nonfiction, poet chaun webster blends memoir, archival research, visual po…

lieferbar ab 2.6.2026.

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