American Literature

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How to Draw a Circle

On Reading and Writing

By Dan Beachy-Quick
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, American Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

An examination of what binds poetic endeavor into a singular, shining whole

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

Uncovering 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

Facing It

AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author

By Leigh Ross Chambers
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies, American Literature

Explores the connection between the politics of AIDS writing and the ethics of reading

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

A Beat Beyond

Selected Prose of Major Jackson

By Major Jackson
Edited by Amor Kohli
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Race and Ethnicity, American Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

Foregrounding the possibilities of human song

The Glass House

The Life of Theodore Roethke

By Allan Seager
Subjects: Biography, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature

The first detailed biography of this renowned American poet

Arthur Miller

1962-2005

By Christopher Bigsby
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Biography, Literary Studies, American Literature, Michigan and the Great Lakes

The second volume in the definitive biography of the acclaimed playwright

The Lines Between the Lines

How Stage Directions Affect Embodiment

By Bess Rowen
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, American Literature

How stage directions convey not what a given moment looks like—but how it feels

The Spiral of Memory

Interviews

By Joy Harjo
Edited by Laura Coltelli
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender Studies, Native American Studies, American Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

Intimate, illuminating conversations with one of the most important voices in contemporary American poetry

Collected Prose

By Robert Hayden
Edited by Frederick Glaysher
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, African American Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

A collection of essays on poetry and the experiences that influenced this poet

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

Autistic Disturbances

Theorizing Autism Poetics from the DSM to Robinson Crusoe

By Julia Miele Rodas
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, American Literature
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Finds and investigates the resonances between autistic speech patterns and literary texts

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

Learning Legacies

Archive to Action through Women's Cross-Cultural Teaching

By Sarah Ruffing Robbins
Subjects: History, American History, Intellectual History, Literary Studies, American Literature
Series: The New Public Scholarship

Examines pedagogy as a toolkit for social change, and the urgent need for cross-cultural collaborative teaching methods

Condition Red

Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries

By Yusef Komunyakaa
Edited by Radiclani Clytus
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, African American Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

A new prose collection by Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa

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

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