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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 …
Richard Wright and Transnationalism
Richard Wright and Transnationalism sees Dr. Mamoun Alzoubi argue that renowned American Author, Richard Wright, transformed the way that we approach comparative literature by …
Asian American Fiction, History and Life Writing
The last ten years have witnessed an enormous growth in American interest in Asia and Asian/American history. In particular, a set of key Asian historical moments have recently …
The Transnationalism of American Culture
This book studies the transnational nature of American cultural production, specifically literature, film, and music, examining how these serve as ways of perceiving the United …
Transnationalism and American Literature
What is transnationalism and how does it affect American literature?This book examines nineteenth century contexts of transnationalism, translation and American literature. The …
Ambivalent Transnational Belonging in American Literature
Ambivalent Transnational Belonging in American Literature discusses the extent to which transnational concepts of identity and community are cast within nationalist frameworks. It …
Remapping Citizenship and the Nation in African-American Literature
Through a reading of periodicals, memoirs, speeches, and fiction from the antebellum period to the Harlem Renaissance, this study re-examines various myths about a U.S. progressive …
Ethnic Literatures and Transnationalism
As new comparative perspectives on race and ethnicity open up, scholars are identifying and exploring fresh topics and questions in an effort to reconceptualize ethnic studies and …
American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History
The United States today is afflicted with political alienation, militarized violence, institutionalized poverty, and social agony. Worst of all, perhaps, it is afflicted with …
New Woman Hybridities
Since the 1970s, the literary and cultural politics of the turn-of-the-century New Woman have received increasing academic attention. Whether she is seen as the emblem of sexual …
Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture
Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture inscribes itself within the spatial turn that permeates the ways we look at literary and cultural productions. The volume seeks …
Gender and the Self in Latin American Literature
This book explores six texts from across Spanish America in which the coming-of-age story ('Bildungsroman') offers a critique of gendered selfhood as experienced in the region’s …