Collects information on literature by Native Americans from the 1770s to the present day.
This book guides readers through important conceptual and theoretical issues, while also grounding these issues in close readings of key literary texts from early America.
This volume places the literature in deep historical context and features a chronology and a bibliography for further reading.
3 Elaine Kim, Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982), 58; Frank Chin et al., “An Introduction to Chinese- and Japanese-American Literature,” in ...
This book provides a new map of American literature in the global era, analyzing the multiple meanings of transnationalism.
The volume uses the best of current literary studies, from digital humanities to psychoanalytic theory, to illuminate an era that reaches far beyond the Civil War and continues to shape our understanding of American literature.
This volume provides newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics on the social and cultural history of the novel in America.
This book brings together leading scholars to examine slavery in American literature from the eighteenth century to the present day.
The first critical collection of its kind devoted solely to this subject, this Companion covers both well-known and lesser-known poets.
This volume explores the most exciting trends in 21st century US fiction's genres, themes, and concepts.
Comprises 100-plus poems, short stories, essays, and memoirs spanning 200 years, ranging from the oral tradition to contemporary writing, and representing a diversity of North American tribes. Organization is thematic,...