Search Results for American literature

... to a series of decisions by scholars, editors, and grant agencies in the twentieth century, this letter is today best known in an English translation and within the frame provided by the popular Heath Anthology of American Literature . The appropriation of Otermín’s letter by the discipline of American (US...

...Geary Hobson Abstract This article provides a summary of Canadian First Nations writing and publishing within the context of Native American literature, with references to the entire area of Western Hemisphere Native writing. Admittedly, some readers and scholars will notice the omission of certain...

..., the red reading methodology has been most noticeably used to decentralize a Eurocentric reading of Indigeneity in North American literature, though as this article illustrates, the concepts of red reading can be expanded to analyze texts from across temporal and cultural periodization, which allows us...

...John Alba Cutler Abstract This essay examines the circulation of works by the Latin American modernista poet Rubén Darío in US Spanish-language periodicals during the early twentieth century. These poems index the immense influence that modernismo had on US Latino/a literature. Modernismo has...

... workers in Mauritius. By humanizing through its fictional characters the illnesses and impoverished living conditions of local populations, which are maintained overseas by American fashion-making businesses, Duvergé’s novel reaffirms the power of literature to raise awareness of grave global inequities...

... at Columbia University. His books in law and literature include Law and Letters in American Culture (Harvard University Press, 1987); The American Enlightenment, 1750-1820 (Harvard University Press, 1997); Reading the Early Republic (Harvard University Press, 2006); and most recently, The Trial in American...

... Mexican American Literature, 1848-1960. John L. Escobedo is an assistant professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His specialization focuses on mestizaje and its effect on interpretations of race cate­ gorization, the development of hybrid theories, and nationalist identity form...

... in the twentieth century. A d é lé kè A d é è k ó is a humanities distinguished professor at The Ohio State University. His teaching and research interests are, in no particular order of importance, Yoruba literature, lit­ erary theory, African American literature, and Anglophone literatures of Africa, south Asia...

... Hampshire where she teaches Asian American studies. She is the author of Filthy Fictions: Asian American Literature by Women (AltaMira 2004) and has published essays in such journals as the Journal o f Am erican Studies, Mosaic, MELUS, Hmong Studies Journal, and LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory...

... of Latino Writing and Print Culture . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2013 . Gruesz Kirsten Silva . “ What Was Latino Literature? ” PMLA 127 , no. 2 ( 2012 ): 335 – 41 . Lazo Rodrigo . “ The Invention of America Again: On the Impossibility of an Archive .” American...

... Press , 2009 . Levy-Hussen Aida . How to Read African American Literature: Post–Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation . New York : New York University Press , 2016 . Naimou Angela . Salvage Work: U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood...

...-American or Native American literature should be disqualified solely because we cannot verify against historical records the identity of its author or the authenticity of its contents . . . the historical record is incomplete and . . , literature may in fact map out new facets of AfricanAmerican and Native...

... in the book, in a much less conspicuous place, in the course of her discussion of eighteenth-century African American literature. This body o f w riting, she states, "yields up its secrets only to faithful, suspicious, and vigilant­ ly inductive readers" (117). Faithful, suspicious, vigilantly inductive...

... and contemporary literary and musical culture. He recently edited The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan (2009). He serves as general editor and twentieth-century period editor for the Longman Anthology o f British Literature. Wai C hee D im o c k is W illiam Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale...

...José F. Aranda, Jr. Copyright © 2007 Regents of the University of Colorado 2007 G rappling w ith the A rchive of M exican A merica J o s é F. A r a n d a , J r . It is my belief that Chicano/a literary studies has a curious relationship to its own archive of Mexican American literature. Since...

... in the late 1980s, a nationalist approach to both "English literature" and "American literature" was entrenched. At Brown back then, we offered an undergraduate course o f study called "English and American Literature," but the only basic required courses were a tw osemester survey of "English Literature...

... the thorny politics of language. Work Cited López Marissa K. Chicano Nations: The Hemispheric Origins of Mexican American Literature . New York : New York University Press , 2011 . ...

... t received her PhD in English from the University of Rochester in the spring of 2007. She specializes in Anglo-American modernist literature. This piece is excerpted from a work-in-progress on the early twentieth-century novel and its imaginative uses of the gay bar as a kind of laboratory within...

...Jan Grue 8 Siebers, Disability Theory , 34 . Works Cited Altschuler Sari . “ Touching The Scarlet Letter : What Disability History Can Teach Us about Literature .” American Literature 92 , no. 1 ( 2020 ): 91 – 122 . https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8056602...

... such as American Literature, MELUS, Western American Literature, Legacy, and Studies in American Fiction. He is currently at work on a book focusing on the narrative representation of child soldiers around the world. Bhanu Kapil teaches at Naropa University and Goddard College. She is the author of four books...