Search Results - Americans

The Un-Americans : Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture / by Litvak, Joseph

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The Un-Americans : Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture / by Litvak, Joseph

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African Americans and the Color Line in Ohio, 1915-1930 / by Giffin, William Wayne, 1938-

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African Americans and the Color Line in Ohio, 1915-1930 / by Giffin, William Wayne, 1938-

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Neodomestic American Fiction / by Jacobson, Kristin J., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Recycling domesticities : contemporary American fiction's domestic geographies -- Remapping domestic fiction : neodomestic geographies -- Recycling feminine domesticity : rewriting conventional domestic fiction -- Remodeling home : redesigning conventional domestic space -- Mapping gendered genres : domestic masculinity, suburban fiction, and the antidomestic -- Performing domesticity : anxious masculinity and queer homes -- Conclusions : the territory ahead.…”
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Modern American Grotesque : Literature and Photography / by Goodwin, James, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The grotesque -- American traditions of the grotesque -- The modern : depiction and description -- Grotesques in modern America : Sherwood Anderson -- "Elephantine close-ups" : Nathanael West -- All God's grotesques : Flannery O'Connor -- New York sights : Weegee -- Creatural realism : Diane Arbus -- Conclusion. …”
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Neodomestic American Fiction / by Jacobson, Kristin J., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Recycling domesticities : contemporary American fiction's domestic geographies -- Remapping domestic fiction : neodomestic geographies -- Recycling feminine domesticity : rewriting conventional domestic fiction -- Remodeling home : redesigning conventional domestic space -- Mapping gendered genres : domestic masculinity, suburban fiction, and the antidomestic -- Performing domesticity : anxious masculinity and queer homes -- Conclusions : the territory ahead.…”
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Modern American Grotesque : Literature and Photography / by Goodwin, James, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The grotesque -- American traditions of the grotesque -- The modern : depiction and description -- Grotesques in modern America : Sherwood Anderson -- "Elephantine close-ups" : Nathanael West -- All God's grotesques : Flannery O'Connor -- New York sights : Weegee -- Creatural realism : Diane Arbus -- Conclusion. …”
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Contemporary African American Fiction : New Critical Essays /

Table of Contents: “…Govan -- Re-imagining the academy: story and pedagogy in contemporary African American fiction / Eleanor W. Traylor.…”
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The Jewish Role in American Life : An Annual Review /

Table of Contents: “…Myers -- Summer camp, postwar American Jewish youth and the redemption of Judaism / Riv-Ellen Prell -- Faultlines: the seven socio-ecologies of Jewish Los Angeles / Bruce A. …”
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The Jewish Role in American Life : An Annual Review /

Table of Contents: “…Myers -- Summer camp, postwar American Jewish youth and the redemption of Judaism / Riv-Ellen Prell -- Faultlines: the seven socio-ecologies of Jewish Los Angeles / Bruce A. …”
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Contemporary African American Fiction : New Critical Essays /

Table of Contents: “…Govan -- Re-imagining the academy: story and pedagogy in contemporary African American fiction / Eleanor W. Traylor.…”
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Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism : From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku / by Hakutani, Yoshinobu, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…The Chicago Renaissance, Theodore Dreiser, and Richard Wright's spatial narrative -- The cross-cultural vision of Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- No name in the street : James Baldwin's exploration of American urban culture -- If Beale Street could talk : Baldwin's search for love and identity -- Jazz and Toni Morrison's urban imagination of desire and subjectivity -- Wright's The outsider and French existentialism -- Pagan Spain : Wright's discourse on religion and culture -- The African "primal outlook upon life" : Wright and Morrison -- The poetics of nature : Wright's haiku, Zen, and Lacan -- Private voice and Buddhist enlightenment in Alice Walker's The color purple -- Cross-cultural poetics : Sonia Sanchez's Like the singing coming off the drums -- James Emanuel's jazz haiku and African American individualism.…”
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Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism : From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku / by Hakutani, Yoshinobu, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…The Chicago Renaissance, Theodore Dreiser, and Richard Wright's spatial narrative -- The cross-cultural vision of Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- No name in the street : James Baldwin's exploration of American urban culture -- If Beale Street could talk : Baldwin's search for love and identity -- Jazz and Toni Morrison's urban imagination of desire and subjectivity -- Wright's The outsider and French existentialism -- Pagan Spain : Wright's discourse on religion and culture -- The African "primal outlook upon life" : Wright and Morrison -- The poetics of nature : Wright's haiku, Zen, and Lacan -- Private voice and Buddhist enlightenment in Alice Walker's The color purple -- Cross-cultural poetics : Sonia Sanchez's Like the singing coming off the drums -- James Emanuel's jazz haiku and African American individualism.…”
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The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry / by Rambsy, Howard

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : "a group of groovy Black people" -- Getting poets on the same page : the roles of periodicals -- Platforms for Black verse : the roles of anthologies -- Understanding the production of Black arts texts -- All aboard the Malcolm-Coltrane express -- The poets, critics, and theorists are one -- The revolution will not be anthologized -- List of anthologies containing African American poetry, 1967-75.…”
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The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry / by Rambsy, Howard

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : "a group of groovy Black people" -- Getting poets on the same page : the roles of periodicals -- Platforms for Black verse : the roles of anthologies -- Understanding the production of Black arts texts -- All aboard the Malcolm-Coltrane express -- The poets, critics, and theorists are one -- The revolution will not be anthologized -- List of anthologies containing African American poetry, 1967-75.…”
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American Power and International Theory at the Council on Foreign Relations, 1953-54 /

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American Power and International Theory at the Council on Foreign Relations, 1953-54 /

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Rhetorics of Literacy : The Cultivation of American Dialect Poetry / by Nurhussein, Nadia, 1974-

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Muse in the Machine : American Fiction and Mass Publicity / by Conroy, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Theoretical and historical prologue -- Ghosts and muses: Henry James -- Machine age and beyond: from West to DeLillo -- Letters and spirit in Miss Lonelyhearts -- Promise and prophecy: the artist's vision in The day of the locust -- Quilty the guilty: scapegoating mass culture in Lolita -- The American way and its double in Lot 49 -- From tombstone to tabloid: authority figured in White noise -- Mao II: a portrait of the artist in the age of mechanical reproduction -- Concluding unsystematic speculation: within the crisis of no crisis.…”
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