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Author |
: Lary May |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 344 |
Release |
: 1989-01-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0226511758 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226511757 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Recasting America by : Lary May
"The freshness of the authors' approaches . . . is salutary. . . . The collection is stimulating and valuable."—Joan Shelley Rubin, Journal of American History
Author |
: Amirhossein Vafa |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 214 |
Release |
: 2016-12-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319404691 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319404695 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Recasting American and Persian Literatures by : Amirhossein Vafa
Reading literary and cinematic events between and beyond American and Persian literatures, this book questions the dominant geography of the East-West divide, which charts the global circulation of texts as World Literature. Beyond the limits of national literary historiography, and neocolonial cartography of world literary discourse, the minor character Parsee Fedallah in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851) is a messenger who travels from the margins of the American literature canon to his Persian literary counterparts in contemporary Iranian fiction and film, above all, the rural woman Mergan in Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s novel Missing Soluch (1980). In contention with Eurocentric treatments of world literatures, and in recognition of efforts to recast the worldliness of American and Persian literatures, this book maintains that aesthetic properties are embedded in their local histories and formative geographies.
Author |
: Barbara Young Welke |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 436 |
Release |
: 2001-08-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521649668 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521649667 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Recasting American Liberty by : Barbara Young Welke
Through courtroom dramas from 1865 to 1920 - of men forced to jump from moving cars when trainmen refused to stop, of women emotionally wrecked from the trauma of nearly missing a platform or street, and women barred from first class ladies' cars because of the color of their skin - Barbara Welke offers a dramatic reconsideration of the critical role railroads, and streetcars, played in transforming the conditions of individual liberty at the dawn of the twentieth century. The three-part narrative, focusing on the law of accidental injury, nervous shock, and racial segregation in public transit, captures Americans' journey from a cultural and legal ethos celebrating manly independence and autonomy to one that recognized and sought to protect the individual against the dangers of modern life. Gender and race become central to the transformation charted here, as much as the forces of corporate power, modern technology and urban space.
Author |
: Sacvan Bercovitch |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 824 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521497329 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521497329 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 7, Prose Writing, 1940-1990 by : Sacvan Bercovitch
Volume VII of the Cambridge History of American Literature examines a broad range of American literature of the past half-century, revealing complex relations to changes in society. Christopher Bigsby discusses American dramatists from Tennessee Williams to August Wilson, showing how innovations in theatre anticipated a world of emerging countercultures and provided America with an alternative view of contemporary life. Morris Dickstein describes the condition of rebellion in fiction from 1940 to 1970, linking writers as diverse as James Baldwin and John Updike. John Burt examines writers of the American South, describing the tensions between modernization and continued entanglements with the past. Wendy Steiner examines the postmodern fictions since 1970, and shows how the questioning of artistic assumptions has broadened the canon of American literature. Finally, Cyrus Patell highlights the voices of Native American, Asian American, Chicano, gay and lesbian writers, often marginalized but here discussed within and against a broad set of national traditions.
Author |
: Michael Scheibach |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2003-04-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780786415663 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0786415665 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Atomic Narratives and American Youth by : Michael Scheibach
Following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, numerous "atomic narratives"--books, newspapers, magazines, textbooks, movies, and television programs--addressed the implications of the bomb. Post-World War II youth encountered atomic narratives in their daily lives at school, at home and in their communities, and were profoundly affected by what they read and saw. This multidisciplinary study examines the exposure of American youth to atomic narratives during the ten years following World War II. In addition, it examines the broader "social narrative of the atom," which included educational, social, cultural, and political activities that surrounded and involved American youth. The activities ranged from school and community programs to movies and television shows to government-sponsored traveling exhibits on atomic energy. The book also presents numerous examples of writings by postwar adolescents, who clearly expressed their conflicted feelings about growing up in such a tumultuous time, and shows how many of the issues commonly associated with the sixties generation, such as peace, fellowship, free expression, and environmental concern, can be traced to this earlier generation.
Author |
: Carl J. Guarneri |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 351 |
Release |
: 2015-07-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317459026 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317459024 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Teaching American History in a Global Context by : Carl J. Guarneri
This comprehensive resource is an invaluable teaching aid for adding a global dimension to students' understanding of American history. It includes a wide range of materials from scholarly articles and reports to original syllabi and ready-to-use lesson plans to guide teachers in enlarging the frame of introductory American history courses to an international view.The contributors include well-known American history scholars as well as gifted classroom teachers, and the book's emphasis on immigration, race, and gender points to ways for teachers to integrate international and multicultural education, America in the World, and the World in America in their courses. The book also includes a 'Views from Abroad' section that examines problems and strategies for teaching American history to foreign audiences or recent immigrants. A comprehensive, annotated guide directs teachers to additional print and online resources.
Author |
: Jarrod Homer |
Publisher |
: CRC Press |
Total Pages |
: 92 |
Release |
: 2017-07-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351350549 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351350544 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis An Analysis of Elaine Tyler May's Homeward Bound by : Jarrod Homer
Elaine Tyler May’s 1988 Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era is a ground-breaking piece of historical and cultural analysis that uses its findings to build a strong argument for its author’s view of the course of modern US history. The aim of May’s study is to trace the links between Cold War politics and the domestic lives of everyday American families at the time. Historians have long noted the unique domestic trends of 1950s America, with its increased focus on the nuclear family, neatly divided traditional gender roles and aspirational, suburban consumer lifestyles. May’s contribution was to analyse the interplay between the domestic scene and the political ideologies of American government, and then to build a carefully-constructed argument that draws attention to the ways in which these seemingly disparate forces are in fact related. May’s key achievement was to use her analytical skills to understand the relationships between these different factors. She the traced ways in which domestic life and US foreign policy mirrored one another, showing that the structures and processes they aimed for, while different in scale, were essentially the same. She then carefully brought together different types of historical data, organizing her study to produce a carefully reasoned argument that the American suburban home was in certain direct ways the product of the ‘containment’ policies that ruled American foreign policy at the time.
Author |
: Laurie Rodrigues |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2020-12-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501361876 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501361872 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis The American Novel After Ideology, 1961–2000 by : Laurie Rodrigues
Claims of ideology's end are, on the one hand, performative denials of ideology's inability to end; while, on the other hand, paradoxically, they also reiterate an idea that 'ending' is simply what all ideologies eventually do. Situating her work around the intersecting publications of Daniel Bell's The End of Ideology (1960) and J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey (1961), Laurie Rodrigues argues that American novels express this paradox through nuanced applications of non-realist strategies, distorting realism in manners similar to ideology's distortions of reality, history, and belief. Reflecting the astonishing cultural variety of this period, The American Novel After Ideology, 1961 - 2000 examines Franny and Zooey, Carlene Hatcher Polite's The Flagellants (1967), Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead (1991), and Philip Roth's The Human Stain (2001) alongside the various discussions around ideology with which they intersect. Each novel's plotless narratives, dissolving subjectivities, and cultural codes organize the texts' peculiar relations to the post-ideological age, suggesting an aesthetic return of the repressed.
Author |
: Karen Halttunen |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 372 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0801483506 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780801483509 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Moral Problems in American Life by : Karen Halttunen
This volume surveys the moral landscape of the American past from slavery to the Vietnam War. The 14 contributing historians illuminate this critical dimension of American history, showing how historical study contributes to present-day debates about values and the moral life.
Author |
: Charles Austin Beard |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 790 |
Release |
: 1928 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:$B282325 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis The History of the American People by : Charles Austin Beard