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American Studies

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Geographies of Relation

Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas

By Theresa Delgadillo
Subjects: Latinx Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, 20th Century Literature, Latin American Studies, American Studies, Theater and Performance, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

How diaspora and borderlands subjects from across the Americas have represented and performed their interrelationship

Corpse Crusaders

The Zombie in American Comics

By Chera Kee
Subjects: American Studies, Media Studies, New Media, Literary Studies, American Literature, History, American History, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Writing, Race and Ethnicity

Unearthing the undead stalking the panels of action/adventure and superhero comics

Racing the Great White Way

Black Performance, Eugene O’Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway

By Katie N. Johnson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

How artists of color challenged racist stereotypes on the Broadway stage

Living Labor

Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work

By Joseph B. Entin
Subjects: American Studies, Class Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature
Series: Class : Culture

Examines new narratives about work and workers in the age of transnational migration and precarious labor

Staged Readings

Contesting Class in Popular American Theater and Literature, 1835-75

By Michael D'Alessandro
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Class Studies

How popular culture helped to create class in nineteenth-century America

Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers

African Diaspora Literary Culture and the Cultural Cold War

By Cedric Tolliver
Subjects: American Studies, Class Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, African Studies, African American Studies, Diaspora Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Yields new insights by connecting Cold War counter-hegemonic writings in English and French by intellectuals of the African diaspora
 

Vitality Politics

Health, Debility, and the Limits of Black Emancipation

By Stephen Knadler
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Race and Ethnicity, Disability Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Traces the post-Reconstruction roots of the slow violence enacted on black people in the U.S. through the politicization of biological health

Dirty Work

Domestic Service in Progressive-Era Women’s Fiction

By Ann Mattis
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Class Studies, American Studies
Series: Class : Culture

What representations of domestic service in literature reveal about various Progressive Era cultural narratives

Dialectical Imaginaries

Materialist Approaches to U.S. Latino/a Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism

Edited by Marcial Gonzalez & Carlos Gallego
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Latinx Studies, American Studies, American Literature
Series: Class : Culture

Gathers materialist readings that provide productive new insights on Latino/a literature in the neoliberal era

The Half-Life of Deindustrialization

Working-Class Writing about Economic Restructuring

By Sherry Lee Linkon
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Cultural Studies, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Examines how contemporary American working- class literature reveals the long- term effects of deindustrialization on individuals and communities

Uncle Tom's Cabins

The Transnational History of America's Most Mutable Book

By Tracy C. Davis & Stefka Mihaylova
Subjects: African American Studies, Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity

Explores the many ways this mid-nineteenth-century U.S. bestseller functions as world literature and enduring icon

The Drama of the American Short Story, 1800-1865

By Michael J. Collins
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Theater and Performance, American Studies, 19th Century Literature

A new history of the origins of the American short story and its relationship to theatrical performance culture

Dreams for Dead Bodies

Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction

By Miriam Michelle Robinson
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, African American Studies, Class Studies, 19th Century Literature
Series: Class : Culture

Explores U.S. detective fiction's deep engagement with the shifting dynamics of race and labor in America
 

Anti-Imperialist Modernism

Race and Transnational Radical Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War

By Benjamin Balthaser
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Class Studies, History
Series: Class : Culture

A unique excavation of how U.S. cross-border, anti-imperialist movements shaped cultural modernism

Emotional Reinventions

Realist-Era Representations Beyond Sympathy

By Melanie V. Dawson
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, 19th Century Literature

A historically informed approach to realist-era American fiction, engaging with contemporary affect theory, evolutionary theory, studies of realism, and studies of affect in American literature

Poetry Los Angeles

Reading the Essential Poems of the City

By Laurence Goldstein
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, 20th Century Literature, American Studies

A look at the poetry of one of America’s most populous and fascinating cities, with poems spanning from 1942 to 2012

Jean Paton and the Struggle to Reform American Adoption

By E. Wayne Carp
Subjects: History, American History, Psychology, Literary Studies, American Literature, Biography, American Studies, Sociology

One woman’s tireless crusade for better understanding and social justice for adopted people

The San Francisco Mime Troupe Reader

Edited by Susan Vaneta Mason
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Cultural Studies

Celebrates the San Francisco Mime Troupe with scripts representative of the troupe's work

Dividing Lines

Class Anxiety and Postbellum Black Fiction

By Andreá N. Williams
Subjects: African American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Provides fresh insights on the intersection of race and class in black fiction from the 1880s to 1900s

New York-Paris

Whitman, Baudelaire, and the Hybrid City

By Laure Katsaros
Subjects: American Studies, Cultural Studies, History, American History, European History, Intellectual History, European Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, European Literature, 19th Century Literature

A comparison of the mid-19th-century city in the poetry of Walt Whitman and Charles Baudelaire and their responses to the inescapable push of modernization

American Socialist Triptych

The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. Du Bois

By Mark Van Wienen
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, African American Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

A closer look at three American writers sheds new light on the evolution of socialist thought in the U.S.

Imagining the Forest

Narratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest

By John R. Knott
Subjects: American Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Nature/Environment

How the meaning of the forest developed in the Great Lakes

James Baldwin

America and Beyond

By Bill Schwarz & Cora Kaplan
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Sexuality Studies, History, African American History, Literary Studies, American Literature, 20th Century Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory

An interdisciplinary discussion of Baldwin by leading writers from several fields

The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry

By Howard Rambsy
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, African American Studies, American Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

A closer look at the poets and publishers who made the Black Arts Movement such an enduring cultural enterprise

Two Minds of a Western Poet

By David Mason
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Meditations on the life of poetry by an award-winning poet

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