Hakutulokset: american literature;
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Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture
This updated, new edition of this book explores the emergence of what the author terms "late modernist freakish aesthetics"– a creative fusion of "high" and "low" themes and forms …
From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison
"From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison: Ethics in Modern and Postmodern American Narrative" studies the relationship of literature to contemporary ethical problems. Focusing on …
The Female Bildungsroman by Toni Morrison and Maxine Hong Kingston
This study traces the textual construction of identity in the female "Bildungsroman" of Toni Morrison and Maxine Hong Kingston. Deploying the -politics of rememory- in their …
William Faulkner's Postcolonial South
William Faulkner (1897-1962), like other authors of the Southern Renascence, believed the South to be a victim of post-Civil War, Northern imperialism. Through their writing, these …
In Defiance of the Law
Nearly every law mediates between the desire for individual liberty and the perceived necessity for maintaining social order. Literature is a powerful tool to explore …
Best-Sellers and Their Film Adaptations in Postwar America
"Best-Sellers and Their Film Adaptations in Postwar America" looks at some of the most popular novels of the 1950s and examines how their representations of gender identity and …
Toni Morrison and the Maternal
In this revised edition, Linda Wagner-Martin offers a compelling study of African American writer Toni Morrison’s work, beginning with The Bluest Eye in 1970 and continuing through …
Nation, Race & History in Asian American Literature
Nation, Race & History in Asian American Literature reflects on the symbolic processes through which the United States constitutes its subjects as citizens, connecting such …
Richard Ford and the Fiction of Masculinities
Richard Ford and the Fiction of Masculinities demonstrates how contemporary U.S. novelist Richard Ford, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for literature, rewrites gender, and in …
Toni Morrison and Womanist Discourse
Aoi Mori has examined the culture and politics of Toni Morrison's fiction from the perspective of Alice Walker's womanist critique of African-American and mainstream U.S. …