Nationhood And Improvised Belief In American Fiction

Author : Ann Genzale
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793605535

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Nationhood and Improvised Belief in American Fiction by Ann Genzale Pdf

Nationhood and Improvised Belief in American Fiction highlights the ways religious belief and practice intersect with questions of national belonging in the work of major contemporary writers. Through readings of novels by Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison, Cristina García, and others, this book argues that the representations of syncretic, culturally hybrid, and improvised forms of religious practice operate in these novels as critiques of exclusionary constructions of national identity, providing models for alternate ways of belonging based on shared religious beliefs and practices. Rather than treating the religious history of the U.S. as one of increasing secularization, this book instead calls for greater attention to the diversity of religious experience in the U.S., as well as a deeper understanding of the ways in which these experiences can inform relationships to the national community.

Author : H. Fernández L’Hoeste,R. Irwin,J. Poblete
Publisher : Springer
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137518002

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Sports and Nationalism in Latin / o America by H. Fernández L’Hoeste,R. Irwin,J. Poblete Pdf

This collection interrogates sports in Latin America as a key terrain in which nation is defined and populations are interpellated through emotionally charged practices (state policy, media representations, and sports play itself by professionals, national teams and amateurs) of inclusion and exclusion.

Author : Jack Salzman,Pamela Wilkinson
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 1582 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781466881938

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Major Characters In American Fiction by Jack Salzman,Pamela Wilkinson Pdf

Major Characters in American Fiction is the perfect companion for everyone who loves literature--students, book-group members, and serious readers at every level. Developed at Columbia University's Center for American Culture Studies, Major Characters in American Fiction offers in-depth essays on the "lives" of more than 1,500 characters, figures as varied in ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, age, and experience as we are. Inhabiting fictional works written from 1790 to 1991, the characters are presented in biographical essays that tell each one's life story. They are drawn from novels and short stories that represent ever era, genre, and style of American fiction writing--Natty Bumppo of The Leatherstocking Tales, Celie of The Color Purple, and everyone in between.

Author : Walton M. Muyumba
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226554259

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The Shadow and the Act by Walton M. Muyumba Pdf

Though often thought of as rivals, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Amiri Baraka shared a range of interests, especially a passion for music. Jazz, in particular, was a decisive influence on their thinking, and, as The Shadow and the Act reveals, they drew on their insights into the creative process of improvisation to analyze race and politics in the civil rights era. In this inspired study, Walton M. Muyumba situates them as a jazz trio, demonstrating how Ellison, Baraka, and Baldwin’s individual works form a series of calls and responses with each other. Muyumba connects their writings on jazz to the philosophical tradition of pragmatism, particularly its support for more freedom for individuals and more democratic societies. He examines the way they responded to and elaborated on that lineage, showing how they significantly broadened it by addressing the African American experience, especially its aesthetics. Ultimately, Muyumba contends, the trio enacted pragmatist principles by effectively communicating the social and political benefits of African Americans fully entering society, thereby compelling America to move closer to its democratic ideals.

Author : Sarah M. Corse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521579120

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Nationalism and Literature by Sarah M. Corse Pdf

Sarah Corse's analysis of nearly two hundred American and Canadian novels offers a theory of national literatures. Demonstrating that national canon formation occurs in tandem with nation-building, and that canonical novels play a symbolic role in this, this 1996 book accounts for cross-national literary differences, addresses issues of mediation and representation in theories of 'reflection', and illuminates the historically constructed nature of the relationship between literature and the nation-state.

Author : Deborah N. Cohn
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826518040

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The Latin American Literary Boom and U.S. Nationalism During the Cold War by Deborah N. Cohn Pdf

How the dissemination of Latin American literature in the U.S. was "caught between the desire to support the literary revolution of the Boom writers and the fear of revolutionary politics" (John King).

Author : Patrick McDonald
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000926309

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Liberalism, Theology, and the Performative in Antebellum American Literature by Patrick McDonald Pdf

The 1850s United States witnessed a far-reaching political, social, and economic crisis. Symptomatic of this, a wide range of narrative fiction from sentimental novels to sensational drama identifies a foundational link between liberal institutions and performative utterances. Auctions, trials, marriages, and contracts, this fiction contends, all depend on the self-constituting authority of words and performances which anybody and everybody can appropriate and are always subject to misfiring. Rather than viewing this as a liberatory and egalitarian political force, however, writers from Herman Melville and James Fenimore Cooper to Captain Mayne Reid and E.D.E.N. Southworth insist that such naked authority must be supplemented. A broad swath of 1850s literature insists that this supplement ought to come from Christianity. Anticipating thinkers like Carl Schmitt and Giorgio Agamben, these works suggest that legitimate political authority depends upon its ability to represent Christian transcendence and account for revealed truth, something firmly outside of speech acts’ and performance’s purview. In so doing, this diverse body of fiction registers a desire to reconstitute political authority on transcendent and representable ground, augmenting institutional reliance on mere words and assuaging the contemporary crises of confidence and authority.

Author : Ruth A. Harring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : American literature
ISBN : MSU:31293010460594

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The Priority of Appreciation -- Literary Nationalism and the American Romance by Ruth A. Harring Pdf

Author : Sandra Hollin Flowers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317731351

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African American Nationalist Literature of the 1960s by Sandra Hollin Flowers Pdf

Bringing together political theory and literary works, this study recreates the political climate which made the 1960s an unforgettable era for young black Americans. A chapter on "The Many Shades of Black Nationalism," for instance, explains: why black nationalism is known by more than a dozen different names; how events in Africa influenced black nationalism in America; why Malcolm X's death had a greater impact on nationalism than did his life; and how the United States government unwittingly became nationalism's ally. Another chapter explores the bitter feud between the dominant factions of the 1960s-cultural and revolutionary nationalists. This feud erupted in both verbal and armed warfare and generated an abundance of political theory and literary works, much of which is out of circulation but is examined in the study. Nationalist poetry, theater, and fiction are each treated in separate chapters which exemplify the aesthetic and political concerns of this memorable period in American history and letters. Aside from its unique combination of artistic and political works, what makes this book important is the current revival of nationalist sentiment in African American life and arts. Though this revival is closely identified with the nationalism of the 1960s, it lacks the focus of that period. This study explains what gave the nationalism of the 1960s its focus, how that focus was expressed in art forms, and why 1960s nationalism continues to influence the African American identity and will probably do so well into the twenty-first century.

Author : William H. Beezley
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780826359759

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Cultural Nationalism and Ethnic Music in Latin America by William H. Beezley Pdf

Music has been critical to national identity in Latin America, especially since the worldwide emphasis on nations and cultural identity that followed World War I. Unlike European countries with unified ethnic populations, Latin American nations claimed blended ethnicities--indigenous, Caucasian, African, and Asian--and the process of national stereotyping that began in the 1920s drew on themes of indigenous and African cultures. Composers and performers drew on the folklore and heritage of ethnic and immigrant groups in different nations to produce what became the music representative of different countries. Mexico became the nation of mariachi bands, Argentina the land of the tango, Brazil the country of Samba, and Cuba the island of Afro-Cuban rhythms, including the rhumba. The essays collected here offer a useful introduction to the twin themes of music and national identity and melodies and ethnic identification. The contributors examine a variety of countries where powerful historical movements were shaped intentionally by music.

Author : Karen E. Waldron,Rob Friedman
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810891982

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Toward a Literary Ecology by Karen E. Waldron,Rob Friedman Pdf

Scholarship of literature and the environment demonstrates myriad understandings of nature and culture. While some work in the field results in approaches that belong in the realm of cultural studies, other scholars have expanded the boundaries of ecocriticism to connect the practice more explicitly to disciplines such as the biological sciences, human geography, or philosophy. Even so, the field of ecocriticism has yet to clearly articulate its interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary nature. In Toward a Literary Ecology: Places and Spaces in American Literature,editors Karen E. Waldron and Robert Friedman have assembled a collection of essays that study the interconnections between literature and the environment to theorize literary ecology. The disciplinary perspectives in these essays allow readers to comprehend places and environments and to represent, express, or strive for that comprehension through literature. Contributors to this volume explore the works of several authors, including Gary Snyder, Karen Tei Yamashita, Rachel Carson, Terry Tempest Williams, Chip Ward, and Mary Oliver. Other essays discuss such topics as urban fiction as a model of literary ecology, the geographies of belonging in the work of Native American poets, and the literary ecology of place in “new” nature writing. Investigating texts for the complex interconnections they represent, Toward a Literary Ecology suggests what such texts might teach us about the interconnections of our own world. This volume also offers a means of analyzing representations of people in places within the realm of an historical, cultural, and geographically bounded yet diverse American literature. Intended for students of literature and ecology, this collection will also appeal to scholars of geography, cultural studies, philosophy, biology, history, anthropology, and other related disciplines.

Author : Modern Language Association of America
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3176 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Languages, Modern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026449327

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MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures by Modern Language Association of America Pdf

Vols. for 1969- include ACTFL annual bibliography of books and articles on pedagogy in foreign languages 1969-

Author : Elizabeth Jacobs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134218226

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Mexican American Literature by Elizabeth Jacobs Pdf

Presenting an up-to-date critical perspective as well as a cultural, political and historical context, this book is an excellent introduction to Mexican American literature, affording readers the major novels, drama and poetry. This volume presents fresh and original readings of major works, and with its historiographic and cultural analyses, impressively delivers key information to the reader.

Author : Michael DeMarco, M.A.
Publisher : Via Media Publishing
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-23
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781893765153

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Judo and American Culture: Prelude, Acceptance, Embodiment by Michael DeMarco, M.A. Pdf

The origins of Asian martial arts in the United States reach back to the Pacific Rim and immigration. This anthology is dedicated to the profoundly significant period—roughly from mid-eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century—in which gifted Japanese taught their brand of jujutsu/judo to small groups that gradually disseminated knowledge of combatives into the American mainstream. In the the first chapter, Geoffrey Wingard provides insightful coverage of the “manly arts” in America as they swept the land along with moving populations. Of course early historical influences came from European groups and their varities of combatives, such as wrestling, boxing, and fencing. Wingard demonstrates that the martial arts are integral to American society and are not ad hoc additions to contemporary popular culture. This background is a prerequisite for understanding the reception of Asian martial arts into American culture. Matt Hlinak analyzes Japanese-American immigration into the American West through the prism of athletics, specifically by examining a series of contests between judoka and wrestlers from 1900 to 1920 in California. These matches appealed to an interest in Japanese culture, a desire to see stereotypes reinforced, and nationalist tendencies during an age of uncertainty. The next two chapters by Joseph Svinth detail the establishment and functioning of two important dojos in the Seattle, Washington, area. In 1923 farmers donated a barn and arranged for Ryoichi Iwakiri (third dan) to teach judo to community youths. Another dojo opened in 1928 under the tutalage of Kurosaka Hiroshi (third dan judo). A colorful history marks these dojos and their practitioners: exhibitions, intraclub tournaments, and war-time influences on practice. Their members helped spread judo throughout the United States. James Webb’s chapter focuses on one of the early prime movers for the growth and establishment of judo in America: Vincent Tamura. He was chosen to represent the United States at the First World Championship of Judo (Tokyo, 1956). He is a descendent of the Taira clan, influential during the end of the Heian period (784–1184) in Japan, and his practice has roots in ancient Heike-ryu jujutsu. Putting academic detail aside, James Behrendt offers a personal account of his early years as a judoka devoted to hard training and competition. He writes “I was extremely fit and strong and I used those natural gifts to eventually defeat the purpose of the judo art. I had discipline but was lacking in spirituality and character.” Polishing judo skills helped build his character in the fashion that Kodokan judo founder Kano Jigaro intended. In these chapters you will find the early hotbeds of jujutsu/judo in America and see how these arts tumbled with European-American “manly arts,” making their own way across the country to form and strengthen judo centers in various states. The authors have utilized their scholarly and practical experience to present a rare view of judo as it traversed the Pacific to enrich American culture. Their writings should clarify the early history of judo in America and bring both practitioners and armchair scholars a deeper appreciation for the art.

Author : Kurt Hemmer
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781438109084

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Encyclopedia of Beat Literature by Kurt Hemmer Pdf

Discusses the literary works and great authors of the Beat Generation.