The Non National In Contemporary American Literature

Author : Dalia M.A. Gomaa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137496263

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The Non-National in Contemporary American Literature by Dalia M.A. Gomaa Pdf

In this wide-ranging study, Gomma examines contemporary migrant narratives by Arab-American, Chicana, Indian-American, Pakistani-American, and Cuban-American women writers. Concepts such as national consciousness, time, space, and belonging are scrutinized through the "non-national" experience, unsettling notions of a unified America.

Author : Linda Wagner-Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351719315

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The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism by Linda Wagner-Martin Pdf

The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism offers readers a fresh, insightful overview to all genres of postmodern writing. Drawing on a variety of works from not only mainstream authors but also those that are arguably unconventional, renowned scholar Linda Wagner-Martin gives the reader a solid framework and foundation to reading, understanding, and appreciating postmodern literature since its inception through the present day.

Author : Dalia M.A. Gomaa
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 113750286X

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The Non-National in Contemporary American Literature by Dalia M.A. Gomaa Pdf

In this wide-ranging study, Gomma examines contemporary migrant narratives by Arab-American, Chicana, Indian-American, Pakistani-American, and Cuban-American women writers. Concepts such as national consciousness, time, space, and belonging are scrutinized through the "non-national" experience, unsettling notions of a unified America.

Author : Aliki Varvogli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136627033

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Travel and Dislocation in Contemporary American Fiction by Aliki Varvogli Pdf

This book offers a critical study and analysis of American fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It focuses on novels that ‘go outward’ literally and metaphorically, and it concentrates on narratives that take place mainly away from the US’s geographical borders. Varvogli draws on current theories of travel globalization and post-national studies, and proposes a dynamic model that will enable scholars to approach contemporary American fiction and assess recent changes and continuities. Concentrating on work by Philip Caputo, Dave Eggers, Norman Rush and Russell Banks, the book proposes that American literature’s engagement with Africa has shifted and needs to be approached using new methodologies. Novels by Amy Tan, Garrison Keillor, Jonathan Safran Foer and Dave Eggers are examined in the context of travel and globalization, and works by Chang-rae Lee, Ethan Canin, Dinaw Mengestu and Jhumpa Lahiri are used as examples of the changing face of the American immigrant novel, and the changing meaning of national belonging.

Author : Linda De Roche
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 2067 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9798216157984

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Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context [4 volumes] by Linda De Roche Pdf

This four-volume reference work surveys American literature from the early 20th century to the present day, featuring a diverse range of American works and authors and an expansive selection of primary source materials. Bringing useful and engaging material into the classroom, this four-volume set covers more than a century of American literary history—from 1900 to the present. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context profiles authors and their works and provides overviews of literary movements and genres through which readers will understand the historical, cultural, and political contexts that have shaped American writing. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context provides wide coverage of authors, works, genres, and movements that are emblematic of the diversity of modern America. Not only are major literary movements represented, such as the Beats, but this work also highlights the emergence and development of modern Native American literature, African American literature, and other representative groups that showcase the diversity of American letters. A rich selection of primary documents and background material provides indispensable information for student research.

Author : Edmund Clarence Stedman,Ellen Mackay Hutchinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : American literature
ISBN : PSU:000001928204

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A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time: Literature of the republic. pt. 3. 1835-1860 by Edmund Clarence Stedman,Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Pdf

Author : Rüdiger Heinze
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3825885364

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Ethics of Literary Forms in Contemporary American Literature by Rüdiger Heinze Pdf

This work links ethics and the formal arrangement of literary texts. It shows that specific formal techniques and devices and the overall form of literary texts always have an ethical dimension and beg certain ethical questions. Covering the three main genres of narrative, drama and poetry, the discussion addresses aspects of syntax, line breaks, mise-en-scene and narrative situation as well as the table of contents, list of characters and chapter structure in six texts by contemporary American authors (Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Tony Kushner, Suzan-Lori Parks, John Ashbery and Jorie Graham).

Author : Europa Publications
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1857431790

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International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004 by Europa Publications Pdf

Accurate and reliable biographical information essential to anyone interested in the world of literature TheInternational Who's Who of Authors and Writersoffers invaluable information on the personalities and organizations of the literary world, including many up-and-coming writers as well as established names. With over 8,000 entries, this updated edition features: * Concise biographical information on novelists, authors, playwrights, columnists, journalists, editors, and critics * Biographical details of established writers as well as those who have recently risen to prominence * Entries detailing career, works published, literary awards and prizes, membership, and contact addresses where available * An extensive listing of major international literary awards and prizes, and winners of those prizes * A directory of major literary organizations and literary agents * A listing of members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters

Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno,Sue Norton
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030941666

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Contemporary American Fiction in the European Classroom by Laurence W. Mazzeno,Sue Norton Pdf

This book offers insight into the ways students enrolled in European classrooms in higher education come to understand American experience through its literary fiction, which for decades has been a key component of English department offerings and American Studies curricula across the continent and in Great Britain and Ireland. The essays provide an understanding of how post-World War II American writers, some already elevated to ‘canonical status’ and some not, are represented in European university classrooms and why they have been chosen for inclusion in coursework. The book will be of interest to scholars and teachers of American literature and American studies, and to students in American literature and American studies courses.

Author : Mary C. Foltz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030465308

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Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture by Mary C. Foltz Pdf

Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture: American Sh*t analyzes post-1960 scatological novels that utilize representations of human waste to address pressing issues, including pollution of waterways, environmental racism, and militarism. Primarily examining postmodern parody, the book shows the value of aesthetic renderings of sanitary engineering for composting ideologies that fuel a ruinous impact on the world. Drawing on late twentieth-century psychoanalytic thinkers Norman O. Brown, Frantz Fanon, and Leo Bersani, American Sh*t shows the continued relevance of psychoanalytic interpretations of contemporary fiction for understanding post-45 authors’ engagement with waste. Ultimately, the monograph reveals how novelists Ishmael Reed, Jonathan Franzen, Gloria Naylor, Don DeLillo, and Samuel R. Delany critique subjects who abnegate their status as waste-producing beings and bring readers back to embrace Winner of the 2019 Northeast Modern Language Association Book Award for Literary Criticism of English Language Literature

Author : Caroline Roberts
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802035965

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The Woman and the Hour by Caroline Roberts Pdf

Roberts situates Martineau's controversial writing in its historical context and presents a sophisticated scholarly analysis of their predominantly hostile reception.

Author : Ann Genzale
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Christopher Dowd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136902413

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The Construction of Irish Identity in American Literature by Christopher Dowd Pdf

This book examines the development of literary constructions of Irish-American identity from the mid-nineteenth century arrival of the Famine generation through the Great Depression. It goes beyond an analysis of negative Irish stereotypes and shows how Irish characters became the site of intense cultural debate regarding American identity, with some writers imagining Irishness to be the antithesis of Americanness, but others suggesting Irishness to be a path to Americanization. This study emphasizes the importance of considering how a sense of Irishness was imagined by both Irish-American writers conscious of the process of self-definition as well as non-Irish writers responsive to shifting cultural concerns regarding ethnic others. It analyzes specific iconic Irish-American characters including Mark Twain’s Huck Finn and Margaret Mitchell’s Scarlet O’Hara, as well as lesser-known Irish monsters who lurked in the American imagination such as T.S. Eliot’s Sweeney and Frank Norris’ McTeague. As Dowd argues, in contemporary American society, Irishness has been largely absorbed into a homogenous white culture, and as a result, it has become a largely invisible ethnicity to many modern literary critics. Too often, they simply do not see Irishness or do not think it relevant, and as a result, many Irish-American characters have been de-ethnicized in the critical literature of the past century. This volume reestablishes the importance of Irish ethnicity to many characters that have come to be misread as generically white and shows how Irishness is integral to their stories.

Author : Erik V. R. Rangno
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781438118550

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Contemporary American Literature, 1945 - Present by Erik V. R. Rangno Pdf

This volume focuses on a variety of topics, from the violence of war and the struggle for civil rights to the social impact of technology and the moral significance of money. A concise, engaging guide to American contemporary literature, this volume provi

Author : Disha Experts
Publisher : Disha Publications
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789387045408

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11 Years CLAT & AILET (2008-18) Topic-wise Solved Papers 2nd Edition by Disha Experts Pdf

The book consists of topic-wise questions from the past 11 years' (2008 to 2018) question papers divided into 5 sections - English Including Comprehension, Elementary Mathematics, Logical Reasoning, General Knowledge & Legal Aptitude. The coverage of the papers includes CLAT, NLU and AILET from 2008 to 2018 as they actually reflect the pattern of the Law exams. In all there are 22 Question papers from 2008 to 2018 which have been provided topic-wise along with detailed solutions. Practicing these questions, aspirants will come to know about the pattern and toughness of the questions asked in the examination. In the end, this book will make the aspirants competent enough to crack the uncertainty of success in the Entrance Examination. The strength of the book lies in the originality of its question papers and Errorless Solutions. The solution of each and every question is provided in detail (step-by-step) so as to provide 100% concept clarity to the students.