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

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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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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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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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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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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Donald Barthelme
Forty Stories

Witty, surreal, and endlessly inventive, Forty Stories is Barthelme at his finest-dismantling convention, bending language, and turning fiction into pure mischief.Donald Barthelme is a master of the unexp…

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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 …

lieferbar ab 17.2.2026.

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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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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…

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Wole Soyinka
The Interpreters

Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka's debut novel tells the story of a group of friends facing political corruption and cultural uncertainty in post-independence Nigeria.Friends since high school, Egbo, Bande…

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Kelly L Bezio
In Contagion's Wake

An examination of early American literature that highlights how racial divides exacerbated---and were exacerbated by---the spread of infectionIn April of 1721, the HMS Seahorse arrived in Boston from the …

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John Edgar Wideman
Languages of Home

The first ever collection of John Edgar Wideman's most influential essays and articles, five decades of cultural and literary criticism that paint a vivid portrait of America's changing landscape and chro…

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Latinx Comics Studies

Latinx Comics Studies considers the role of comics and graphic narrative in picturing the rich realities of Latinx communities. It brings together groundbreaking critical essays, practical reflections, or…

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Latinx Comics Studies

Latinx Comics Studies considers the role of comics and graphic narrative in picturing the rich realities of Latinx communities. It brings together groundbreaking critical essays, practical reflections, or…

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Mario Vargas Llosa, Rubén Gallo,
Conversation at Princeton

A series of conversations held at Princeton University between the Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa and Rubén Gallo.Princeton University, 2015. For one semester, Mario Vargas Llosa taught a course on lit…

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Kiron Ward,
Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction

Taking as key examples work by Don DeLillo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Roberto Bolaño, and Karen Tei Yamashita, this book looks at engagements with encyclopaedic thought and practice in contemporary fiction. Ch…

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S S van Dine
The Bishop Murder Case

In one of the most well-known classic American murder mysteries, amateur detective Philo Vance must solve a puzzle series of crimes based on nursery rhymes"The perfect sleuth for Jazz Age New York&qu…

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Mary I Unger
Reading the Renaissance

From 1932 to 1953, during the Black Chicago Renaissance, numerous literary events were held within and for the city's Black community. In book clubs, public forums, print reviews, little magazines, local …

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Pamela Carter Joern
At the Corner of Past and Future

With keen observation and deep reflection, Pamela Carter Joern probes her life. No topic is too small or too sacred, from gutting chickens to GaudÍ's cathedral. Through a range of experiences-growing up i…

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