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African American Literature in Transition, 1800–1830: Volume 2, 1800–1830
African American literature in the years between 1800 and 1830 emerged from significant transitions in the cultural, technological, and political circulation of ideas. …
Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature
A survey of Asian American literature.
The Disfigured Face in American Literature, Film, and Television
The face, being prominent and visible, is the foremost marker of a person’s identity as well as their major tool of communication. Facial disfigurements, congenital or acquired, …
The Fragmented Female Body and Identity
The Fragmented Female Body and Identity explores the symbol of the wounded and scarred female body in selected postmodern, multiethnic American women’s novels, namely Toni …
Understanding Mario Vargas Llosa
Dangerous Giving in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
This book explores the dark, unruly, and self-destructive side of gift-giving as represented in nineteenth-century literary works by American authors. It asserts the centrality and …
Writing Nature in Cold War American Literature
Compelling analyses of the function and representation of Nature in a wide range of Cold War fiction and poetry.
Delmira Agustini, Sexual Seduction, and Vampiric Conquest
Delmira Agustini (1886–1914) has been acclaimed as one of the foremost modernistas and the first major woman poet of twentieth-century Spanish America. Critics and the reading …
Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'
This work expands the scope of Morrison’s project to examine the ways and means of memory in the preservation of belief systems passed down from the earliest civilizations (both …