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Author: C. Kocela
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-09-10
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 0230109985
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study explores the concept of fetishism as a strategy for expressing social and political discontent in American literature, and for negotiating traumatic experiences particular to the second half of the twentieth century.
Author: E. Mercer
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-05-09
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 0230119093
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study of fiction produced in America in the decade following 1945 examines literature by writers such as Kerouac and Bellow. It examines how, though such fiction seemed to resolutely avoid the events and implications of World War II, it was still suffused with dread and suggestions of war in imagery and language.
Author: M. Gauthier
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-10-10
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 0230337821
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book shows how a political and cultural dynamic of amnesia and truth telling shapes literary constructions of history. Gauthier focuses on the works of Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Michelle Cliff, Bharati Mukherjee, and Julie Otsuka.
Author: A. Graham-Bertolini
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-09-26
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 0230339301
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Graham-Bertolini provides the first analysis of vigilante women in contemporary American fiction. She develops a dynamic model of vigilante heroines using literary and feminist theory and applies it to important texts to broaden our understanding of how law and culture infringe upon women's rights.
Author: Dalia M.A. Gomaa
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-08
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1137496266
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: S. Anderson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-09-14
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1137263199
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Readings of Trauma, Madness, and the Body, Anderson explores how Modernist fiction narratives by Hemingway, the Fitzgeralds, and H.D. represent trauma, specifically addressing the conflict between speaking about and repressing traumatic memories, while also considering how authors' understandings of gender influence their depictions.
Author: Gerald Alva Miller Jr.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-12-04
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1137330791
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Through its engagement with different kinds of texts, Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction represents a new way of approaching both science fiction and critical theory, and its uses both to question what it means to be human in digital era.
Author: Linda Wagner-Martin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-03
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 1351719319
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: C. Neculai
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-03-06
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1137340207
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Interdisciplinary in nature, this project draws on fiction, non-fiction and archival material to theorize urban space and literary/cultural production in the context of the United States and New York City. Spanning from the mid-1970s fiscal crisis to the 1987 Market Crash, New York writing becomes akin to geographical fieldwork in this rich study.
Author: M. Malburne-Wade
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-01-12
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1137441615
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →American dramas consciously rewrite the past as a means of determined criticism and intentional resistance. While modern criticism often sees the act of revision as derivative, Malburne-Wade uses Victor Turner's concept of the social drama and the concept of the liminal to argue for a more complicated view of revision.
