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Author : Yogita Goyal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107085206
This book provides a new map of American literature in the global era, analyzing the multiple meanings of transnationalism.
Author : Sarah Ensor,Susan Scott Parrish
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108841900
Offers an overview of American environmental literature across genres and time periods, introducing readers to a range of ecocritical methodologies.
Author : Scott Herring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107046498
"Writing anything definitive about the queer American novel will always be unsatisfying, if not impossible. Unsatisfying, because the romances they contain are uncertain and, quite often, doomed: heartbreak, violence, and persecution pepper nearly every page. Impossible, because the genre's terrain is as vast and uncertain as America itself: the spaces, the characters, plots, ideas, and dynamics - too varied. The minute you say one thing, you could say another. And perhaps that might be the point. As one character from Djuna Barnes's lesbian novel Nightwood puts it, "With an American anything can be done.'"1 We could say the same about the queer American novel. If there is anything consistently connecting this genre, it is that it features, however obliquely, the effects characters (usually American, but not always) have as they seek reasons for why they have sexual feelings for those that are not obvious or traditional object choices. Frequently, these effects instruct characters in their pursuit of self-knowledge and self-understanding, especially if others have pathologized their desires (and America has and does pathologize its queers). In her autobiographical graphic memoir Fun Home, Alison Bechdel tells a story of a variety of discoveries that books, explicitly queer or not, can inspire. During the same afternoon when she acknowledges that she is a "lesbian," she also finds herself asking a professor to let her take his course on James Joyce's Ulysses - her father's favorite book. As we move from the captions and the meticulous, stylized drawings, canonical books acquire an increasingly important role: books become guides to how Bechdel will affect "a convergence" with her "abstracted father.""--
Author : Steven Frye
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107095373
This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the literature of the American West, one of the most vibrant and diverse literary traditions.
Author : Sharon Monteith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107434677
This Companion maps the dynamic literary landscape of the American South. From pre- and post-Civil War literature to modernist and civil rights fictions and writing by immigrants in the 'global' South of the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries, these newly commissioned essays from leading scholars explore the region's established and emergent literary traditions. Touching on poetry and song, drama and screenwriting, key figures such as William Faulkner and Eudora Welty, and iconic texts such as Gone with the Wind, chapters investigate how issues of class, poverty, sexuality and regional identity have textured Southern writing across generations. The volume's rich contextual approach highlights patterns and connections between writers while offering insight into the development of Southern literary criticism, making this Companion a valuable guide for students and teachers of American literature, American studies and the history of storytelling in America.
Author : Joshua L. Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107083950
This Companion offers a comprehensive analysis of U.S. modernism as part of a global literature. Recent writing on U.S. immigration, imperialism, and territorial expansion has generated fresh reasons to read modernist novelists, both prominent and forgotten. Written by a host of leading scholars, this Companion provides unique approaches to modernist texts.
Author : Yogita Goyal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : American literature
ISBN : 1009159704
"African American literary production has changed in astounding ways since the 1970s. This book provides a systematic and vibrant account of the range and achievements of contemporary Black writers. It considers the history, practice, and future directions of the field"--
Author : Sarah Ensor,Susan Scott Parrish
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108815278
This Companion offers a capacious overview of American environmental literature and criticism. Tracing environmental literatures from the gates of the Manzanar War Relocation Camp in California to the island of St. Croix, from the notebooks of eighteenth-century naturalists to the practices of contemporary activists, this book offers readers a broad, multimedia definition of 'literature', a transnational, settler colonial comprehension of America, and a more-than-green definition of 'environment'. Demonstrating links between ecocriticism and such fields as Black feminism, food studies, decolonial activism, Latinx studies, Indigenous studies, queer theory, and carceral studies, the volume reveals the persistent relevance of literary methods within the increasingly interdisciplinary field of Environmental Humanities, while also modeling practices of literary reading shaped by this interdisciplinary turn. The result is a volume that will prove indispensable both to students seeking an overview of American environmental literature/criticism and to established scholars seeking new approaches to the field.
Author : Michele Elam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107043039
This Companion offers fresh insight into the art and politics of James Baldwin, one of the most important writers and provocative cultural critics of the twentieth century. Black, gay, and gifted, he was hailed as a "spokesman for the race," although he personally, and controversially, eschewed titles and classifications of all kinds. Individual essays examine his classic novels and nonfiction as well as his work across lesser-examined domains: poetry, music, theatre, sermon, photo-text, children's literature, public media, comedy, and artistic collaboration. In doing so, The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin captures the power and influence of his work during the civil rights era as well as his relevance in the "post-race" transnational twenty-first century, when his prescient questioning of the boundaries of race, sex, love, leadership, and country assume new urgency.
Author : Yogita Goyal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009184144
African American literature has changed in startling ways since the end of the Black Arts Era. The last five decades have generated new paradigms of racial formation and novel patterns of cultural production, circulation, and reception. This volume takes up the challenge of mapping the varied and changing field of contemporary African American writing. Balancing the demands of historical and political context with attention to aesthetic innovation, it considers the history, practice, and future directions of the field. Examining various historical forces shaping the creation of innovative genres, the turn to the afterlife of slavery, the pull toward protest, and the impact of new and expanded geographies and methods, this Companion provides an invaluable point of reference for readers seeking rigorous and cutting-edge analyses of contemporary African American literature.
Author : Shamoon Zamir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139828134
W. E. B. Du Bois was the pre-eminent African American intellectual of the twentieth century. As a pioneering historian, sociologist and civil rights activist, and as a novelist and autobiographer, he made the problem of race central to an understanding of the United States within both national and transnational contexts; his masterwork The Souls of Black Folk (1903) is today among the most widely read and most often quoted works of American literature. This Companion presents ten specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars which explore key aspects of Du Bois's work. The book offers students a critical introduction to Du Bois, as well as opening new pathways into the further study of his remarkable career. It will be of interest to all those working in African American studies, American literature, and American studies generally.
Author : Eva-Marie Kröller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107159624
A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.
Author : Joanne Shattock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521882880
A volume of essays on Victorian themes, genres and authors, aimed at students and lecturers.
Author : Audrey Fisch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827591
The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American abolitionism, Anglo-American literary traditions such as autobiography and sentimental literature, and the larger African American literary tradition. Special attention is paid to leading exponents of the genre such as Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, as well as many other, less well known examples. Further essays explore the rediscovery of the slave narrative and its subsequent critical reception, as well as the uses to which the genre is put by modern authors such as Toni Morrison. With its chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion provides both an easy entry point for students new to the subject and comprehensive coverage and original insights for scholars in the field.
Author : Joshua L. Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 1316028232
The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel offers a comprehensive analysis of US modernism as part of a wider, global literature. Both modernist and American literary studies have been reshaped by waves of scholarship that unsettled prior consensuses regarding America's relation to transnational, diasporic, and indigenous identities and aesthetics; the role of visual and musical arts in narrative experimentation; science and technology studies; and allegiances across racial, ethnic, gendered, and sexual social groups. Recent writing on US immigration, imperialism, and territorial expansion has generated fresh and exciting reasons to read or reread modernist novelists, both prominent and forgotten. Written by a host of leading scholars, this Companion provides unique interpretations and approaches to modernist themes, techniques, and texts.