American Literature: Showing 1 to 25 of 267 results sorted by Newest to oldest

We Rode the Rhythms as One

On the Poetry of Etheridge Knight

Edited by Norman Minnick
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, History, American History, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, African American History
Series: Under Discussion

Believing in the transformative power of the spoken word

Ezra Pound's Confucian Translations

By Mary Paterson Cheadle
Subjects: Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, Asian Studies

A Fly in the Soup

Memoirs

By Charles Simic
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, Biography, European Studies, Eastern European Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

The Heart as a Drum

Continuance and Resistance in American Indian Poetry

By Robin Riley Fast
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

An accessible introduction to a wide range of contemporary poetry by Native Americans

Radical Poetics

Essays on Literature & Culture

By Khadijah Queen
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

Expanding theoretical practice to return radicality to its original meaning from the Latin—forming a root

By Theresa Delgadillo
Subjects: Latinx Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Latin American Studies, American Studies, Theater and Performance, African Studies

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

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

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

Alchemies of Theater

Plays, Scores, Writings

By Dick Higgins
Edited by Bonnie Marranca
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Art, Art History, Literary Studies, American Literature

Illuminating the extensive contributions of Dick Higgins to theater

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, 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

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 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

Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers

African Diaspora Literary Culture and the Cultural Cold War

By Cedric Tolliver
Subjects: American 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, 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
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, 19th Century Literature
Series: Class : Culture

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

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