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Oxford University Press What is American Literature
Book SynopsisAn incisive, thought-provoking, and timely meditation, at once panoramic and synoptic, on American literature for an age of xenophobia, heightened nationalism, and economic disparity. The distinguished cultural critic Ilan Stavans explores the nation''s identity through the prism of its books, from the indigenous past to the early settlers, the colonial period, the age of independence, its ascendance as a global power, and its shallow, fracturing response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The central motives that make the United States a flawed experiment--its celebration of do-it-yourself individualism, its purported exceptionalism, and its constitutional government based on checks and balances--are explored through canonical works like Mark Twain''s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Walt Whitman''s Leaves of Grass, Emily Dickinson''s poetry, F. Scott Fitzgerald''s The Great Gatsby, the work of Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Toni Morrison, and immigrant voices such as those of AméTrade ReviewIt constitutes a rich sample of texts and genres that can inspire whoever reads it to pull the thread and delve into the themes that Stavans points out. * Teresa Requena Pelegrí, Escola de Llibreria *At its core [What is American Literature?] is a compelling thought about the tension between protest and assimilation: the way American literature simultaneously propels change, and manufactures consent... * Alicia Rix, Times Literary Supplement *Stavans brings all his passion and experiences as a prolific and versatile writer, commentator, publisher, anthologist, and academic to bear on this heady reconsideration of American literature... [a] speedy, veering, catch-all book of pronouncements and provocations, upended assumptions and unexpected associations... * Donna Seaman, Booklist *Table of ContentsPreface: American Carnage 1: The Ambition of Origins 2: Hucks R' Us 3: Language and Authority 4: Surviving Democracy Epilogue: The Second American Civil War: A Reckoning
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd American World Literature An Introduction
Book SynopsisA scholarly review of American world literature from early times to the postmodernist era American World Literature: An Introduction explores how the subject of American Literature has evolved from a national into a global phenomenon. As the author, Paul Giles a noted expert on the topic explains, today American Literature is understood as engaging with the wider world rather than merely with local or national circumstances. The book offers an examination of these changing conceptions of representation in both a critical and an historical context. The author examines how the perception of American culture has changed significantly over time and how this has been an object of widespread social and political debate. From examples of early American literature to postmodernism, the book charts ways in which the academic subject areas of American Literature and World Literature have converged and diverged over the past generations. Written for studeTrade Review“…and what this book tries to do – is elaborating a new procedure, a method to disentangle a complex entity into simpler units which enhance comprehension without giving anything for granted. The pursue of such aim makes American World Literature a particularly rich book, ideal for students with a background in literature and scholars wishing to keep an account of the major historical and critical issues of the subject at hand.” - Serena Demichelis for Iperstoria, Issue 14 – Fall/Winter 2019Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vi 1 The Theory of American World Literature 1 References 25 2 Early American Literature in the World 30 2.1 Contact Zones and Extended Scales 30 2.2 The Classical Counternarrative 41 2.3 The Early American Novel’s Transatlantic Axis 51 2.4 Thomas Paine and Universal Order 63 References 69 3 National/Global: The Framing of Nineteenth‐Century American Literature 75 3.1 National Agendas and Transnational Dialogues 75 3.2 Slavery’s Global Compass 92 3.3 Planetary Space and Intellectual Distance 113 References 119 4 The Worlds of American Modernism 126 4.1 The American Novel and the Great War 126 4.2 The Esthetics of Contradiction 146 4.3 American Studies and World Literature: The Great Gatsby and The Grapes of Wrath 156 References 165 5 Postmodernism, Globalization, and US Literary Culture 171 5.1 The Politics of Postmodernism 171 5.2 Styles of Globalization 176 5.3 Disorientation and Reorientation: Kincaid, Morrison, Kingston 193 References 202 Index 208
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A History of American Literature
Book SynopsisA HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE 1950 TO THE PRESENT Featuring works from notable authors as varied as Salinger and the Beats to Vonnegut, Capote, Morrison, Rich, Walker, Eggers, and DeLillo, A History of American Literature: 1950 to the Present offers a comprehensive analysis of the wide range of literary works produced in the United States over the last six decades and a fascinating survey of the dramatic changes during America's transition from the innocence of the fifties to the harsh realities of the first decade of the new millennium. Author Linda Wagner-Martin - a highly acclaimed authority on all facets of modern American literature - covers major works of drama, poetry, fiction, non- fiction, memoirs, and popular genres such as science fiction and detective novels. Viewing works produced during this fertile literary period from a wide-ranging perspective, Wagner-Martin considers literature in relation to such issues as the politics of civil rights, feminism, sTrade Review“This commendable handbook should stimulate renewed debate on the canon. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.” (Choice, 1 September 2013)Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Preface xi 1 Locating Contemporary Literature 1 American Poetry during the 1950s 13 A. Poems of the Mind and the Body 13 B. The Farthest Edge: The Beats and the Confessional School 19 American Theater during the 1950s 25 American Fiction during the 1950s 28 A. Fiction and the War 28 B. Class and Sexuality in the Novel 32 C. The Novel, Jewish and Southern 38 2 The Sixties and the Necessities of Change 47 Theater of the 1960s 53 African American Writing in the 1960s 58 1960s Fiction, Mainstream Markers 69 Feminism 74 3 Conventions and Eruptions 79 Poetry of the Anti-War and Feminist Years 81 Feminist Fictions 90 Postmodern Fictions 101 Science Fiction and Alternative Worlds 112 The New Journalism 123 Theater During the 1970s 129 4 New Ages and Old 139 Memoir: Another New Direction 142 Crime and Detective Fiction, American Style 150 Theater during the 1980s 168 5 The 1980s, Ethnicity and Change 175 Asian American Writing 178 Native American Writing 183 Mexican American Writing (i.e., Latino/Latina) 189 African American Writing 194 Poetry in the 1980s 203 Fiction in the 1980s 214 6 The 1990s and the Sexual 225 Sexual Preferences and Social/Legal Issues 227 Theater of the 1990s 235 The Poem at the Turn into the Twenty-First Century 242 Story at the Turn into the Twenty-First Century 250 Southern Literature at the Turn into the Twenty-First Century 260 7 The Twenty-First Century 277 The Story of 9/11 and Its Aftermath 286 Theater 2000–2010 307 Poetry 2000–2010 311 Memoir and Life-Writing 2000–2010 319 Fiction 2000–2010 326 References 353 Index 365
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to American Literature 3 Volume Set
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsVolume I: Origins-1820 Full Table of Contents Editors Notes on Contributors to Volume I General Introduction Susan Belasco Introduction to Volume I Theresa Strouth Gaul Chronology Origins-1820 1. The Storyteller's Universe: Indigenous Oral Literatures Kenneth M. Roemer 2. Cross-Cultural Encounters in Early American Literatures: From Incommensurability to Exchange Kelly Wisecup 3. Settlement Literatures Before and Beyond the Stories of Nations Tamara Harvey 4. The Puritan Culture of Letters Abram Van Engen 5. Writing the Salem Witch Trials Peter J. Grund 6. Captivity: From Babylon to Indian Country Andrew Newman 7. Africans in Early America Cassander L. Smith 8. Migration, Exile, Imperialism: The Non-English Literatures of Early America Reconsidered Patrick M. Erben 9. Environment and Environmentalism Timothy Sweet 10. Acknowledging Early American Poetry Christopher N. Phillips 11. Travel Writings in Early America, 1680-1820 Susan C. Imbarrato 12. Early Native American Literacies to 1820: Systems of Meaning, Categories of Knowledge Transmission Hilary E. Wyss 13. The Varieties of Religious Expression in Early American Literature Sandra M. Gustafson 14. Benjamin Franklin: Printer, Editor, and Writer Stephen Carl Arch 15. Writing Lives: Autobiography in Early America Jennifer A. Desiderio 16. Captivity Recast: The Captivity Narrative in the Long Eighteenth Century Jodi Schorb 17. Gender, Sex, and Seduction in Early American Literature Ivy Schweitzer 18. Letters in Early American Manuscript and Print Cultures Eve Tavor Bannet 19. Early American Evangelical Print Culture Wendy Raphael Roberts 20. The First Black Atlantic: The Archive and Print Culture of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery John Saillant 21. Manuscripts, Manufacts, and Social Authorship Susan Stabile 22. Cosmopolitan Correspondences: The American Republic of Letters and the Circulation of Enlightenment Thought Chiara Cillerai 23. Revolutionary Print Culture, 1763-1776 Philip Gould 24. Founding Documents: Writing the American into Being Trish Loughran 25. From the Wharf to the Woods: The Development of U.S. Regional and National Publishing Networks, 1787-1820 Phillip H. Round 26. Performance, Theatricality, and Early American Drama Laura L. Mielke 27. Charles Brockden Brown and the Novel in the 1790s Philip Barnard, Mark L. Kamrath and Stephen Shapiro 28. Medicine, Disability, and Early American Literature Sari Altschuler 29. Remapping the Canonical Interregnum: Periodization, Canonization, & the American Novel, 1800-1820 Duncan Faherty 30. Commerce, Class, and Cash: Economics in Early American Literature Elizabeth Hewitt 31. Haiti and the Early American Imagination Michael J. Drexler Index to Volume I Volume II edited by: Linck Johnson Volume II: 1820-1914 Editors Notes on Contributors to Volume II General Introduction Susan Belasco Introduction to Volume II Linck Johnson Chronology 1820-19141. The Transformation of Literary Production, 1820-1865 Susan Belasco 2. Travel Writing Susan L. Roberson3. The Historical Romance Monika M. Elbert and Leland S. Person4. The Gothic Tale Gerald Kennedy 5. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Transcendentalism Phyllis Cole6. Henry David Thoreau and the Literature of the Environment Rochelle L. Johnson7. Herman Melville and the Antebellum Reading Public David O. Dowling8. Women Writers at Midcentury Nicole Tonkovich9. Popular Poetry and the Rise of Anthologies Amanda Gailey10. Walt Whitman and the New York Literary World Edward Whitley11. Emily Dickinson and the Tradition of Women Poets Elizabeth A. Petrino12. The Literature of Antebellum Reform Linck Johnson 13. Sex, the Body, and Health Reform David Greven14. Proslavery and Antislavery Literature Susan M. Ryan15. Gender and the Construction of Antebellum Slave Narratives Philathia Bolton and Venetria Patton 16. Antebellum Oratory John C. Briggs17. Literature and the Civil War Shirley Samuels18. Disability and Literature Mary Klages19. The Development of Print Culture, 1865-1914 William Hardwig20. Local Color and the Rise of Regionalism Anne Boyd Rioux21. Poetry, Periodicals, and the Marketplace Nadia Nurhussein22. Realism from William Dean Howells to Edith Wharton Alfred Bendixen23. Mark Twain and the Idea of American Identity Andrew Levy24. Henry James at Home and Abroad John Carlos Rowe25. Naturalism Donna Campbell26. Social Protest Fiction Alicia Mischa Renfroe27. The Immigrant Experience James Nagel28. Double Consciousness: African American Writers at the Turn of the Century Shirley Moody-Turner29. Native American Voices Cari Carpenter30. Latina/o Voices Jesse Alemán31. The Emergence of an American Drama, 1820-1914 Cheryl Black Index to Volume II Volume III: 1914-Present Editors Notes on Contributors to Volume III General Introduction Susan Belasco Introduction to Volume III Michael Soto Chronology 1914-Present1. Magazines, Little and Large: American Print Culture in the Early Twentieth Century Jayne E. Marek2. Regional Literary Expressions Philip Joseph3. The Literature of the U.S. South: Modernism and Beyond John Wharton Lowe4. American Literature and the Academy Eric Bennett5. The Literature of World War I Hazel Hutchison6. The Course of Modern American Poetry Charles Altieri7. Modernism and the American Novel Linda Wagner-Martin8. The Little Theatre Movement DeAnna M. Toten Beard9. The Lost Generation and American Expatriatism Michael Soto10. The Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro Maureen Honey11. Proletarian Literature Barbara Foley12. Realism in American Drama Brenda Murphy13. Nature Writing and the New Environmentalism Karla Armbruster14. The Literature and Film of World War II Philip Beidler15. The Beat Minds of Their Generation David Sterritt16. The Black Arts Movement and the Racial Divide Amy Abugo Ongiri17. Literary Self-Fashioning in the Pharmacological Age: Confessional Poetry Michael Thurston18. New Frontiers in Postmodern Theater Kerstin Schmidt19. Poetry at the End of the Millennium John Lowney20. The Literature and Film of the Vietnam War Mark A. Heberle21. Gay and Lesbian Literature Guy Davidson22. American Literature in Languages Other than English Steven G. Kellman23. Jewish American Literary Forms Victoria Aarons24. Native American Literary Forms Thomas C. Gannon25. Asian American Literary Forms Una Chung26. Latina/o Literary Forms Marta Caminero-Santangelo27. African American Fiction After Hiroshima and Nagasaki Michael Hill28. Creative Nonfictions Barrie Jean Borich29. The Rise and Nature of the Graphic Novel Stephen E. Tabachnick30. The Digital Revolution and the Future of American Reading Naomi S. Baron Index to Volume III Consolidated Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Experimental American Literature and the
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Experimental2. Flash3. Objectivity4. Precision5. ContactCoda. Future TextsNotesBibliographyIndex
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of American Literature
Book SynopsisThis 1997 volume addresses the spectrum of new and established directions in American writing. An interdisciplinary distillation of American literary history, it weds the voice of traditional criticism with the diversity of interests that characterise contemporary literary studies. Volume I covers the colonial and early national periods.Trade Review'… this is, without doubt and without any serious rival, the scholarly history for our generation.' Journal of American Studies'… vast and eminently readable survey of twentieth century American literature …'. Use of EnglishTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The literature of colonisation Myra Jehlen; 2. New England puritan literature Emory Elliott; 3. British-American belles lettres David S. Shields; 4. The American enlightenment 1750–1820 Robert A. Ferguson; 5. The literature of the revolutionary and early national periods Michael T. Gilmore; Chronology; Bibliography; Index.
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Facts On File Encyclopedia of American Literature
Book SynopsisA reference work that spans the entire scope of American literature, from the colonial period onwards. It includes entries reflecting writers, works, literary movements, and more that high school students and undergraduates are likely to encounter. It also includes bibliographies listing key critical and biographical resources.Trade Review...an excellent source for students...and its chronological arrangement offers a different slant. Recommended... - Booklist ""The articles are well-written and provide readers with a clear understanding of the topic. There is an excellent set index and an alphabetical list of entries in each book."" - School Library Journal ""The writing is clear and direct, and entries are cross-referenced...useful..."" - Choice
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd American World Literature An Introduction
Book SynopsisA scholarly review of American world literature from early times to the postmodernist era American World Literature: An Introduction explores how the subject of American Literature has evolved from a national into a global phenomenon. As the author, Paul Giles a noted expert on the topic explains, today American Literature is understood as engaging with the wider world rather than merely with local or national circumstances. The book offers an examination of these changing conceptions of representation in both a critical and an historical context. The author examines how the perception of American culture has changed significantly over time and how this has been an object of widespread social and political debate. From examples of early American literature to postmodernism, the book charts ways in which the academic subject areas of American Literature and World Literature have converged and diverged over the past generations. Written for studeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vi 1 The Theory of American World Literature 1 References 25 2 Early American Literature in the World 30 2.1 Contact Zones and Extended Scales 30 2.2 The Classical Counternarrative 41 2.3 The Early American Novel’s Transatlantic Axis 51 2.4 Thomas Paine and Universal Order 63 References 69 3 National/Global: The Framing of Nineteenth‐Century American Literature 75 3.1 National Agendas and Transnational Dialogues 75 3.2 Slavery’s Global Compass 92 3.3 Planetary Space and Intellectual Distance 113 References 119 4 The Worlds of American Modernism 126 4.1 The American Novel and the Great War 126 4.2 The Esthetics of Contradiction 146 4.3 American Studies and World Literature: The Great Gatsby and The Grapes of Wrath 156 References 165 5 Postmodernism, Globalization, and US Literary Culture 171 5.1 The Politics of Postmodernism 171 5.2 Styles of Globalization 176 5.3 Disorientation and Reorientation: Kincaid, Morrison, Kingston 193 References 202 Index 208
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd American Literature and Culture 1900 1960
Book SynopsisThis introduction to American literature and culture from 1900 to 1960 is organized around four major ideas about America: that is it big, new, rich, and free. Illustrates the artistic and social climate in the USA during this period. Juxtaposes discussion of history, popular culture, literature and other art forms in ways that foster discussion, questioning, and continued study. An appendix lists relevant primary and secondary works, including websites. An ideal supplement to primary texts taught in American literature courses. Trade Review"To call this an 'introduction' or 'guide' to its topic is accurate but modest...McDonald does not attempt to redefine texts so much as portray their coincidental nature...Highly Recommended." ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Timeline viii Acknowledgments xxii Introduction 1 1 Big 6 Expansion and its Discontents 12 The City 19 Representing Nature 36 Apocalypse 43 The Sense of Place 48 2 Rich 60 Weber and Veblen: Reasons to Work and Reasons to Spend 66 USA 71 Work and Identity 79 Labor Reform 91 Consumption and Identity 99 3 New 110 Beginning Anew: Crevecoeur and Hawthorne 115 Young America 119 Making It New I: Literary Modernism 128 Making It New II: The Other Arts 149 4 Free 165 The Multiple Meanings of Freedom 170 War and the Affirmation of American Values 173 Writing War 180 Upstream Against the Mainstream 187 “An Inescapable Network of Mutuality” 203 Notes 211 Websites for Further Study of American Literature and Culture 215 Bibliography 217 Index 231
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd American Literature and Culture 1900 1960
Book SynopsisThis introduction to American literature and culture from 1900 to 1960 is organized around four major ideas about America: that is it big, new, rich, and free. Illustrates the artistic and social climate in the USA during this period. Juxtaposes discussion of history, popular culture, literature and other art forms in ways that foster discussion, questioning, and continued study. An appendix lists relevant primary and secondary works, including websites. An ideal supplement to primary texts taught in American literature courses. Trade Review"To call this an 'introduction' or 'guide' to its topic is accurate but modest...McDonald does not attempt to redefine texts so much as portray their coincidental nature...Highly Recommended." ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Timeline viii Acknowledgments xxii Introduction 1 1 Big 6 Expansion and its Discontents 12 The City 19 Representing Nature 36 Apocalypse 43 The Sense of Place 48 2 Rich 60 Weber and Veblen: Reasons to Work and Reasons to Spend 66 USA 71 Work and Identity 79 Labor Reform 91 Consumption and Identity 99 3 New 110 Beginning Anew: Crevecoeur and Hawthorne 115 Young America 119 Making It New I: Literary Modernism 128 Making It New II: The Other Arts 149 4 Free 165 The Multiple Meanings of Freedom 170 War and the Affirmation of American Values 173 Writing War 180 Upstream Against the Mainstream 187 “An Inescapable Network of Mutuality” 203 Notes 211 Websites for Further Study of American Literature and Culture 215 Bibliography 217 Index 231
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Cambridge University Press American Literature in Transition 19301940
Book SynopsisAmerican Literature in Transition, 19301940 gathers together in a single volume preeminent critics and historians to offer an authoritative, analytic, and theoretically advanced account of the Depression era''s key literary events. Many topics of canonical importance, such as protest literature, Hollywood fiction, the culture industry, and populism, receive fresh treatment. The book also covers emerging areas of interest, such as radio drama, bestsellers, religious fiction, internationalism, and middlebrow domestic fiction. Traditionally, scholars have treated each one of these issues in isolation. This volume situates all the significant literary developments of the 1930s within a single and capacious vision that discloses their hidden structural relations - their contradictions, similarities, and reciprocities. This is an excellent resource for undergraduate, graduate students, and scholars interested in American literary culture of the 1930s.Table of ContentsIntroduction Ichiro Takayoshi; Part I. Themes: 1. The middle class Amy L. Blair; 2. Romance, marriage, and family Jennifer Haytock; 3. The working class Joseph B. Entin; 4. Sympathy and poverty John Marsh; 5. Black culture at home and abroad Etsuko Taketani; 6. The Southern heritage Michael Kreyling; 7. The literature of social protest in California David Wrobel; 8. Reckoning with Christianity Jason Stevens; 9. Diversity and American letters Yael Schacher; 10. This land is your land Robert B. Westbrook; 11. Look at the world! David Ekbladh and Ichiro Takayoshi; Part II. Formats: 12. Bestsellers David Welky; 13. Radio drama Neil Verma; 14. Crime fiction Charles J. Rzepka; 15. Documentary work Jeff Allred; 16. Modernism Milton A. Cohen; 17. The American stage Mark Fearnow; Part III. Institutions: 18. Federal Writers' Project Jerrold Hirsch; 19. Hollywood William Solomon; 20. Time Inc. Donal Harris; 21. The Communist Party Christopher Phelps; Echoes of the 1930s Morris Dickstein.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to American Literature and Culture
Book SynopsisThis expansive Companion offers a set of fresh perspectives on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States. Highlights the diverse voices that constitute American literature, embracing oral traditions, slave narratives, regional writing, literature of the environment, and moreDemonstrates that American literature was multicultural before Europeans arrived on the continent, and even more so thereafterOffers three distinct paradigms for thinking about American literature, focusing on: genealogies of American literary study; writers and issues; and contemporary theories and practicesEnables students and researchers to generate richer, more varied and more comprehensive readings of American literatureTrade Review"I believe this book is well worth dipping into. It is, I suggest, a volume of solid scholarship that should have a significant impact in what is already a quite crowded publishing area. It is highly recommended, if only for the reason that—as Lauter explains—'the literatures of this America illuminate as nothing else has done the aspirations, the contradictions, the dangers and possibilities of this society'" (M/C Reviews, November 2010)Table of ContentsList of Contributors x Introduction 1Paul Lauter Part A Genealogies of American Literary Study 7 1 The Emergence of the Literatures of the United States 9Emory Elliott 2 Politics, Sentiment, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America 26John Carlos Rowe 3 Making It New: Constructions of Modernism 40Carla Kaplan 4 Academicizing “American Literature” 57Elizabeth Renker 5 Cold War and Culture War 72Christopher Newfield 6 Re-Historicizing Literature 96T.V. Reed 7 Multiculturalism and Forging New Canons 110Shelley Streeby Part B Writers and Issues 123 8 Indigenous Oral Traditions of North America, Then and Now 125Lisa Brooks (Abenaki) 9 The New Worlds and the Old: Transatlantic Politics of Conversion 143Susan Castillo and Ivy Schweitzer 10 Unspeakable Fears: Politics and Style in the Enlightenment 160Frank Shuffelton 11 Slave Narrative and Captivity Narrative: American Genres 179Gordon M. Sayre 12 The Early Republic: Forms and Readers 192Trish Loughran 13 “Indians” Constructed and Speaking 206Scott Richard Lyons 14 Sentiment and Style 221Tara Penry 15 Transcendental Politics 237Paul Lauter 16 Melville, Whitman, and the Tribulations of Democracy 250Betsy Erkkila 17 Emily Dickinson and Her Peers 284Paula Bernat Bennett 18 Race and Literary Politics 316Frances Smith Foster and Cassandra Jackson 19 American Regionalism 328Susan K. Harris 20 Magazines and Fictions 339Ellen Gruber Garvey 21 Realism and Victorian Protestantism in African American Literature 354Phillip M. Richards 22 The Maturation of American Fictions 364Gary Scharnhorst 23 Making It New: Constructions of Modernisms 377Heinz Ickstadt 24 Wests, Westerns, Westerners 394Martha Viehmann 25 The Early Modern Writers of the US South 410John Lowe 26 Writers on the Left 427Alan Wald 27 From Objectivism to the Haight 441Charles Molesworth 28 New Aestheticisms: the Artfulness of Art 458Stephen Burt 29 Drama in American Culture 478Brenda Murphy Part C Contemporary Theories and Practices 491 30 Constructions of “Ethnicity” and “Diasporas” 493Aviva Taubenfeld 31 Narrating Terror and Trauma: Racial Formations and “Homeland Security” in Ethnic American Literature 508Shirley Geok-lin Lim 32 Feminisms and Literatures 528Deborah S. Rosenfelt 33 Blackness/Whiteness 563James Smethurst 34 Borderlands: Ethnicity, Multiculturalism, and Hybridity 576Ana Maria Manzanas and Jesús Benito Sánchez 35 Literature-and-Environment Studies and the Influence of the Environmental Justice Movement 593Joni Adamson 36 Endowed by Their Creator: Queer American Literature 608David Bergman 37 Contemporary Native American Fiction as Resistance Literature 622Arnold Krupat and Michael A. Elliott 38 From Virgin Land to Ground Zero: Interrogating the Mythological Foundations of the Master Fiction of the Homeland Security State 637Donald Pease Afterword 655Paul Lauter Index 657
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Edinburgh University Press Modern American Literature
Book SynopsisAn incisive study of modern American literature, casting new light on its origins and themes.Table of ContentsSeries Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction: Chicago, 1893; Chapter 1: The Making of American Modernism; Chapter 2: Tales of New York City: The Birth of the Modern Metropolis; Chapter 3: Regional American Modernism; Chapter 4: Home Thoughts from Abroad: The Lost Generation; Chapter 5: 'When Harlem Was in Vogue': African American Modernism; Chapter 6: 'Make it New!': Experiments in Poetry and Drama; Conclusion: New York, 1939; Student Resources; Glossary; Electronic Resources and Reference Sources; Questions for Discussion; Guide to Further Reading; Index.
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Johns Hopkins University Press Timelines of American Literature
Book SynopsisA collection of engaging essays that seeks to uniquely reperiodize American literature. It is all but inevitable for literary history to be divided into periods. Early American, antebellum, modern, post-1945such designations organize our knowledge of the past and shape the ways we discuss that past today. These periods tend to align with the watershed moments in American history, even as the field has shifted its perspective away from the nation-state. It is high time we rethink these defining periods of American literary history, as the drawing of literary timelines is a necessaryeven illuminatingpractice. In these short, spirited, and imaginative essays, 23 leading Americanists gamely fashion new, unorthodox literary periodsfrom 600 B.C.E. to the present, from the Age of Van Buren to the Age of Microeconomics. They bring to light literary and cultural histories that have been obscured by traditional timelines and raise provocative questions. What is our definition of modernism ifTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments1. Introduction Cody Marrs and Christopher HagerPart 1. Prehistories and Transitions2. Prologue. What's in a Date? Sandra GustafsonPrehistories3. 1833-1932: American Literature's Other Scripts Erica Fretwell4. 1922-1968: The Disenchanted Literature of Homeownership Adrienne Brown5. 1830-1924: The Literatures of Sovereignty Phillip Round6. 600 BCE-1830 CE: The Book of Mormon and the Lived Eschatology of Settler Colonialism Jared HickmanTransitions7. 1629-1852: American Literature, Democracy, and the Patroons Jennifer Greiman8. 1973: When It Changed Gerry Canavan9. The Three Burials of Confederate Nationalism Coleman Hutchison10. 1819-1857: Romantic Cycles from the Panic of 1819 to the Panic of 1857 Andrew Kopec11. Reimagining 1820-1865 Robert S. LevinePart 2. Ages and the Long Present 12. Prologue. The Anthropocene, 1945/1783/1610/1492-???? (or, I Wish I Knew How to Quit You) Dana LucianoAges13. The Age of US Latinidad Jesse Alemán14. The Age of Van BurenJustine S. Murison15. The Ages of Appalachian Literature Rachel A. Wise16. The Civil War in the Age of Civil Rights Michael LeMahieu17. The Age of Warhol Bryan WatermanThe Long Present18. All of It Is Now: Slavery and the Post-black Moment in Contemporary African American Literature Yogita Goyal19. Propaganda and the Movement of American Literary History Russ Castronovo20. De-ciphering American Literature: Caroline Levander21. Methodological Individualism and the Novel in the Age of Microeconomics, 1871 to the Present Annie McClanahan22. 1980 to the Present: Formalism and the New Authoritarianism Rachel Greenwald Smith23. American Captivity Narratives from the Colonial Era to the Present: A New Timeline Birgit Brander Rasmussen24. Afterword. The Newer Newest Thing: Reperiodizing, Redux Susan GillmanAppendix. Sample Syllabi Contributors Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Brief History of American Literature
Book SynopsisWritten in an informed and accessible by one of the leading authorities in the field, A Brief History of American Literature offers students and general readers alike a concise and thoroughly up-to-date history of the American literary tradition.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments ix 1 The First Americans: American Literature During the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 1 Imagining Eden 1 Writing of the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 1 2 Inventing Americas: The Making of American Literature 1800–1865 47 Making a Nation 47 The Making of American Myths 47 The Making of American Selves 59 The Making of Many Americas 71 The Making of an American Fiction and Poetry 90 3 Reconstructing the Past, Reimagining the Future: The Development of American Literature 1865–1900 115 Rebuilding a Nation 115 The Development of Literary Regionalisms 115 The Development of Literary Realism and Naturalism 130 The Development of Women’s Writing 143 The Development of Many Americas 148 4 Making It New: The Emergence of Modern American Literature 1900–1945 159 Changing National Identities 159 Between Victorianism and Modernism 159 The Inventions of Modernism 176 Traditionalism, Politics, and Prophecy 211 Community and Identity 226 Mass Culture and the Writer 242 5 Negotiating the American Century: American Literature since 1945 249 Towards a Transnational Nation 249 Formalists and Confessionals 249 Public and Private Histories 263 Beats, Prophets, and Aesthetes 281 The Art and Politics of Race 296 Realism and Its Discontents 314 Language and Genre 328 Creating New Americas 345 Index 373
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Book SynopsisAmerican Literature in Context to 1865 discussesthe issues and events that engaged American writers of the period, providing original and useful readings of important literary works that demonstrate how context contributes to meaning Covers a range of genres including the myths, chants and songs of indigenous cultures, sermons, slave narratives, essays and the novels and poetry to 1865 Designed to be used alongside the major anthologies of literature from the period Equips students with the necessary historical context needed to understand the writings from this period Pedagogical features include a detailed bibliography, and a transatlantic timeline, with literary works, and historical events Trade Review"Joining numerous other volumes in the "Literature in Context" series, this is an excellent starting point for students of American literature. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-and upper-division undergraduates; general readers." (Choice, 1 August 2011) "The book includes a transatlantic timeline featuring key literary works and historical events, in addition to suggestions for further reading and a few b&w art illustrations." (Booknews, 1 April 2011) "In the end this book is an innovative soul within a traditional body. It presents the historical context of American writing from a variety of perspectives within a period structure relevant to many current college courses." (NBOL-19, October 2010)Table of ContentsPreface viii Acknowledgments ix Timeline of Texts and Historical Events x The Arrival of the Europeans 1 European Exploration and Settlement: The Anvil and the Golden Fleece 17 The City on a Hill: Alternative Visions 32 From Colonies to Nation 61 The Struggle for Identity in Post-Revolutionary America 80 American Expansion and the Transcendentalists 98 The Originals: Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, and Walt Whitman 124 A House Divided: Abolitionism, the Women’s Movement, and the Civil War 146 Bibliography 171 Index 180
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University of Pennsylvania Press Literature American Style
Book SynopsisBetween 1780 and 1800, authors of imaginative literature in the new United States wanted to assert that their works, which bore obvious connections to anglophone literature on the far side of the Atlantic, nevertheless constituted a properly American tradition. No one had yet figured out, however, what it would mean to write like an American, what literature with an American origin would look like, nor what literary characteristics the elusive quality of Americanness could generate. Literature, American Style returns to this historical momentdecades before the romantic nationalism of Cooper, the transcendentalism of Emerson and Thoreau, or the iconoclastic poetics of Whitmanwhen a fantasy about the unique characteristics of U.S. literature first took shape, and when that notion was linked to literary style. While late eighteenth-century U.S. literature advertised itself as the cultural manifestation of a radically innovative nation, Ezra Tawil argues, it was not primarily marked by iTrade Review"[Tawil's] fresh and illuminating readings of major works of the 1780s and '90s will make Literature, American Style an important book for early Americanists. But what will make this book important for a wide range of scholars working on the long history of American literature is its reframing of the issue of literary Americanness. One of the signature achievements of Literature, American Style is the synthesis it provides of the divergent lines of scholarship focused on national distinctiveness and transatlantic indebtedness, respectively." * Early American Literature *"[A] masterful treatise . . . {An] excellent, learned study . . . Literature, American Style makes a substantial contribution to the study of early national literary culture from which future scholars of the period will greatly profit." * American Literary History *"[F]or readers interested in this dialectic and in parsing the tangled literary relationship between Britain and the United States, Tawil's book is essential reading. His own lucid style makes Literature, American Style a pleasure to read." * Studies in the Novel *"In Literature, American Style, Tawil's subject matter is, itself, a crucial intervention in the field of American literary studies because it foregrounds something-the 'choice of words and the manner of arranging them'-that is often ignored . . . What Tawil does remarkably well, and vitally so for the field, is to put a finer point on the intricacies of transatlantic exchange, literary style, and cultural nationalism that critics have too often painted with a broad brush." * Soundings *"Ezra Tawil's Literature, American Style confronts one of the most fundamental problems in the study of US culture: how and why do we claim 'a national tradi-tion' of American literature that can be distinguished from other literatures in English . . . Tawil provides a deeper historical, philosophical and literary context for the enduring allure of the unpolished voice on both sides of the Atlantic.." * Literature & History *"This is a beautifully written, well-structured, and impressively informed study of early national American literature. Drawing on pre-romantic aesthetic philosophy and deft stylistic analysis, Ezra Tawil succeeds in elucidating a significant late eighteenth-century cultural paradox: the transatlantic roots of American literary originality." * Paul Downes, University of Toronto *"Literature, American Style is a timely and innovative account of some very old-fashioned ideas in American literary studies-nationalism, originality, and style. In Ezra Tawil's engaging, lucid prose, they come alive in ways that reveal American 'exceptionalism' to be a far more important and complex cultural strategy than we have understood it to be." * Edward Cahill, Fordham University *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Style and the Cisatlantic Chapter 1. To Form a More Perfect Language: Noah Webster's American-Style English Chapter 2. Transatlantic Correspondences: Crèvecoeur and the Incorrect Style Chapter 3. "New Forms of Sublimity": Charles Brockden Brown and the Irregular Style Chapter 4. "Homespun Habits": Seduction, Sentiment, and the Artless Style Coda. Stock and Soil Notes Index Acknowledgments
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Columbia University Press American Literature in the World
Book SynopsisAmerican Literature in the World is an innovative anthology offering a new way to understand the global forces that have shaped the making of American literature. The wide-ranging selections are structured around five interconnected nodes: war; food; work, play, and travel; religions; and human and nonhuman interfaces.Trade ReviewAn inventive, exciting anthology of American literature that promises to make teaching and taking a survey course a global adventure! Collages of clustered texts around thematic nodes suggest creative juxtapositions certain to spark student interest. Familiar classics and less-known texts are well balanced, and the digital platform brings the American survey course into the twenty-first century of collaborations. -- Susan Stanford Friedman, author of Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time This is a vital anthology, both in conception and execution. For students and faculty alike, it will create an unprecedented sense of the dynamic force fields of American literature. I'm especially impressed by the anthology's fluid movement across media platforms and geographical divides. -- Rob Nixon, Princeton University With the inimitable vision we have come to expect from her, Dimock has assembled a nimble model for reading American literature beyond U.S. borders and traditional periodization, across both space and time. This vision of American literary history as an international, outward-facing, worldly tradition is timely and needed. -- Anna Brickhouse, University of VirginiaTable of ContentsIntroduction I. War Beginnings Anne Bradstreet, "Semiramis" Louise Gluck, "Parable of the Hostages" William Carlos Williams, "The Destruction of Tenochtitlan" Elizabeth Bishop, "Brazil, January 1, 1502" William Apess, "Eulogy on King Philip" French Revolution, 1789-1799 Thomas Jefferson, Letter to General Lafayette, June 16, 1792 Haitian Revolution, 1791-1804 Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Monroe, July 14, 1793 Victor Sejour, "The Mulatto" Mexican War, 1846-1848 Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government" Revolutionary Europe, 1848-1849 Margaret Fuller, Dispatch 29 Spanish-American War, 1898-1902 Stephen Crane, "Stephen Crane's Vivid Story of the Battle of San Juan" Mark Twain, "Incident in the Philippines" John Ashbery, "Memories of Imperialism" World War I, 1914-1918 Edith Wharton, Fighting France Rita Dove, "The Return of Lieutenant James Reese Europe" Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 Muriel Rukeyser, Mediterranean Langston Hughes, "Harlem Swing and Spanish Shells" Langston Hughes, "General Franco's Moors" Philip Levine, "To P.L., 1916-1937" World War II, 1939-1945 Gertrude Stein, Brewsie and Willie T. S. Eliot, "Little Gidding," from Four Quartets Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Art Spiegelman, Maus Jorie Graham, "Soldatenfriedhof" William Faulkner, "Two Soldiers" Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead John Hersey, Hiroshima Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony Chang-Rae Lee, A Gesture Life Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle Korean War, 1950-1953 Thomas McGrath, "Ode for the American Dead in Asia" Myung Mi Kim, "Under Flag" Cuban Revolution, 1959 Jay Cantor, The Death of Che Guevara Vietnam War, 1955-1975 Michael Herr, Dispatches Yusef Komunyakaa, "Tu Do Street" W. S. Merwin, "The Asians Dying" Maxine Hong Kingston, China Men Latin American State Violence, 1947-1991 Joan Didion, Salvador Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Middle Eastern Conflict, 1991-present Philip Roth, Operation Shylock Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union Naomi Shihab Nye, "For Mohammed Zeid of Gaza, Age 15" II. Food Scarcity and Hunger Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, La Relacion Mary Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God Louise Erdrich, "Captivity" Theodore Roosevelt, The Rough Riders E. E. Cummings, The Enormous Room Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife Ha Jin, War Trash Sharon Olds, "The Food-Thief" Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness Procuring, Preparing, and Consuming Herman Melville, "Stubb's Supper," from Moby-Dick Jack London, "The Water Baby" Upton Sinclair, The Jungle Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop Alice B. Toklas, The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook Monique Truong, The Book of Salt Natasha Trethewey, "Kitchen Maid with Supper at Emmaus, or The Mulata after the painting by Diego Velazquez, ca. 1619" Oscar Hijuelos, Our House in the Last World Cristina Garcia, Dreaming in Cuban Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John Julia Alvarez, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory Jhumpa Lahiri, "When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine" Allen Ginsberg, "One Morning I Took a Walk in China" Gerald Vizenor, Griever: An American Monkey King in China Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats Gary Shteyngart, Absurdistan Brainy Fruit Marianne Moore, "Nine Nectarines and Other Porcelain" Gary Snyder, "Mu Chi's Persimmons" Richard Blanco, "Mango No. 61" III. Work, Play, Travel Varieties of Fieldwork Frederick Douglass, Letter to William Lloyd Garrison, March 27, 1846 Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun Henry James, The American Richard Wright, Black Power Norman Rush, Mating Robert Hass, "Ezra Pound's Proposition" Robert Pinsky, "The Banknote" Karen Tei Yamashita, Through the Arc of the Rain Forest Agha Shahid Ali, "In Search of Evanescence" Rivalries and Partnerships Herman Melville, "The Monkey Rope," from Moby-Dick Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin W. E. B. Du Bois, Dark Princess John Steinbeck, East of Eden Langston Hughes, "Something in Common" James Baldwin, "Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown" Maya Angelou, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes Ishmael Reed, Flight to Canada Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye Rolando Hinojosa, Partners in Crime Sherman Alexie, "The Game Between the Jews and the Indians Is Tied Going Into the Bottom of the Ninth Inning" Music-Making Walt Whitman, "Proud Music of the Storm" Claude McKay, Banjo Amiri Baraka, Blues People Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon Robert Pinsky, "Ginza Samba" IV. Religions Faith Without Dogma Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano George Washington, Letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, August 21, 1790 Benjamin Franklin, "A Parable Against Persecution" Thomas Paine, "Profession of Faith" Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Divinity School Address" Herman Melville, "A Bosom Friend," from Moby-Dick Emily Dickinson, "The Bible is an Antique Volume" and "Apparently with No Surprise" Zitkala-Sa, "Why I Am a Pagan" Vernacular Devotions Zora Neale Hurston, Moses, Man of the Mountain Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn Denise Levertov, "The Altars in the Street" Gary Snyder, "Grace" Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums Joanne Kyger, "Here in Oaxaca It's the Night of the Radishes" Many Islams Washington Irving, "Legend of the Arabian Astrologer" Paul Bowles, The Spider's House Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X John Updike, Terrorist Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist The Grateful Dead, "Blues for Allah" V. Human and Nonhuman Interfaces Ants Henry David Thoreau, Walden Marianne Moore, "Critics and Connoisseurs" Ezra Pound, Canto LXXX I Robert Lowell, "Ants" Toni Morrison, Tar Baby Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible Commodities and Markets Elizabeth Alexander, "Amistad" Herman Melville, "The Advocate," from Moby-Dick Frank Norris, The Octopus John Dos Passos, The Big Money Dave Eggers and Valentino Achak Deng, What Is the What Destructive Agents Jack London, "The Scarlet Plague" Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King Robert Frost, "Fire and Ice" Carl Sandburg, "Buttons" Randall Jarrell, "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" Adrienne Rich, "The School Among the Ruins" Brian Turner, "Here, Bullet" George Oppen, "The Crowded Countries of the Bomb" Denise Levertov, "Dom Helder Camara at the Nuclear Test Site" Nonhuman Intelligence Isaac Asimov, I, Robot Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2 William Gibson, Neuromancer Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Octavia Butler, Dawn Notes Permissions Index of Authors General Index
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Columbia University Press American Literature in the World An Anthology
Book SynopsisAmerican Literature in the World is an innovative anthology offering a new way to understand the global forces that have shaped the making of American literature. The wide-ranging selections are structured around five interconnected nodes: war; food; work, play, and travel; religions; and human and nonhuman interfaces.Trade ReviewAn inventive, exciting anthology of American literature that promises to make teaching and taking a survey course a global adventure! Collages of clustered texts around thematic nodes suggest creative juxtapositions certain to spark student interest. Familiar classics and less-known texts are well balanced, and the digital platform brings the American survey course into the twenty-first century of collaborations. -- Susan Stanford Friedman, author of Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time This is a vital anthology, both in conception and execution. For students and faculty alike, it will create an unprecedented sense of the dynamic force fields of American literature. I'm especially impressed by the anthology's fluid movement across media platforms and geographical divides. -- Rob Nixon, Princeton University With the inimitable vision we have come to expect from her, Dimock has assembled a nimble model for reading American literature beyond U.S. borders and traditional periodization, across both space and time. This vision of American literary history as an international, outward-facing, worldly tradition is timely and needed. -- Anna Brickhouse, University of VirginiaTable of ContentsIntroduction I. War Beginnings Anne Bradstreet, "Semiramis" Louise Gluck, "Parable of the Hostages" William Carlos Williams, "The Destruction of Tenochtitlan" Elizabeth Bishop, "Brazil, January 1, 1502" William Apess, "Eulogy on King Philip" French Revolution, 1789-1799 Thomas Jefferson, Letter to General Lafayette, June 16, 1792 Haitian Revolution, 1791-1804 Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Monroe, July 14, 1793 Victor Sejour, "The Mulatto" Mexican War, 1846-1848 Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government" Revolutionary Europe, 1848-1849 Margaret Fuller, Dispatch 29 Spanish-American War, 1898-1902 Stephen Crane, "Stephen Crane's Vivid Story of the Battle of San Juan" Mark Twain, "Incident in the Philippines" John Ashbery, "Memories of Imperialism" World War I, 1914-1918 Edith Wharton, Fighting France Rita Dove, "The Return of Lieutenant James Reese Europe" Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 Muriel Rukeyser, Mediterranean Langston Hughes, "Harlem Swing and Spanish Shells" Langston Hughes, "General Franco's Moors" Philip Levine, "To P.L., 1916-1937" World War II, 1939-1945 Gertrude Stein, Brewsie and Willie T. S. Eliot, "Little Gidding," from Four Quartets Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Art Spiegelman, Maus Jorie Graham, "Soldatenfriedhof" William Faulkner, "Two Soldiers" Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead John Hersey, Hiroshima Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony Chang-Rae Lee, A Gesture Life Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle Korean War, 1950-1953 Thomas McGrath, "Ode for the American Dead in Asia" Myung Mi Kim, "Under Flag" Cuban Revolution, 1959 Jay Cantor, The Death of Che Guevara Vietnam War, 1955-1975 Michael Herr, Dispatches Yusef Komunyakaa, "Tu Do Street" W. S. Merwin, "The Asians Dying" Maxine Hong Kingston, China Men Latin American State Violence, 1947-1991 Joan Didion, Salvador Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Middle Eastern Conflict, 1991-present Philip Roth, Operation Shylock Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union Naomi Shihab Nye, "For Mohammed Zeid of Gaza, Age 15" II. Food Scarcity and Hunger Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, La Relacion Mary Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God Louise Erdrich, "Captivity" Theodore Roosevelt, The Rough Riders E. E. Cummings, The Enormous Room Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife Ha Jin, War Trash Sharon Olds, "The Food-Thief" Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness Procuring, Preparing, and Consuming Herman Melville, "Stubb's Supper," from Moby-Dick Jack London, "The Water Baby" Upton Sinclair, The Jungle Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop Alice B. Toklas, The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook Monique Truong, The Book of Salt Natasha Trethewey, "Kitchen Maid with Supper at Emmaus, or The Mulata after the painting by Diego Velazquez, ca. 1619" Oscar Hijuelos, Our House in the Last World Cristina Garcia, Dreaming in Cuban Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John Julia Alvarez, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory Jhumpa Lahiri, "When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine" Allen Ginsberg, "One Morning I Took a Walk in China" Gerald Vizenor, Griever: An American Monkey King in China Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats Gary Shteyngart, Absurdistan Brainy Fruit Marianne Moore, "Nine Nectarines and Other Porcelain" Gary Snyder, "Mu Chi's Persimmons" Richard Blanco, "Mango No. 61" III. Work, Play, Travel Varieties of Fieldwork Frederick Douglass, Letter to William Lloyd Garrison, March 27, 1846 Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun Henry James, The American Richard Wright, Black Power Norman Rush, Mating Robert Hass, "Ezra Pound's Proposition" Robert Pinsky, "The Banknote" Karen Tei Yamashita, Through the Arc of the Rain Forest Agha Shahid Ali, "In Search of Evanescence" Rivalries and Partnerships Herman Melville, "The Monkey Rope," from Moby-Dick Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin W. E. B. 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Religions Faith Without Dogma Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano George Washington, Letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, August 21, 1790 Benjamin Franklin, "A Parable Against Persecution" Thomas Paine, "Profession of Faith" Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Divinity School Address" Herman Melville, "A Bosom Friend," from Moby-Dick Emily Dickinson, "The Bible is an Antique Volume" and "Apparently with No Surprise" Zitkala-Sa, "Why I Am a Pagan" Vernacular Devotions Zora Neale Hurston, Moses, Man of the Mountain Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera N. 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