Race Sounds

Nicole Brittingham Furlonge

• Paperback | Engels | New American Canon
• We live in a world of talk. Yet Race Sounds argues that we need to listen more--not just hear things, but actively listen--particularly in relation to... Lees meer

American Unexceptionalism

Kathy Knapp

• Paperback | Engels | New American Canon
• American Unexceptionalism examines a constellation of post-9/11 novels that revolve around white middle-class male suburbanites, thus following a trad... Lees meer

After the Program Era

• Paperback | Engels | New American Canon
• The publication in 2009 of Mark McGurl's The Program Era provoked a sea change in the study of postwar literature. Even though almost every English de... Lees meer

Novel Subjects

Leah A Milne

• Paperback | Engels | New American Canon
• How does contemporary literature contend with the power and responsibility of authorship, particularly when considering marginalized groups? How have ... Lees meer

Art Essays

• Paperback | Engels | New American Canon
• Art Essays is a passionate collection of the best essays on the visual arts written by contemporary novelists. This vibrant and diverse selection incl... Lees meer

Visible Dissent

Teresa V Longo

• Paperback | Engels | New American Canon
• As Teresa Longo's groundbreaking examination reveals, North America's dissident literature has its roots in the Latin American literary tradition. Fro... Lees meer

Wrong

Diarmuid Hester

• Paperback | Engels | New American Canon
• Dennis Cooper is one of the most inventive and prolific artists of our time. Working in a variety of forms and media since he first exploded onto the ... Lees meer

Places in the Making

Jim Cocola

• Paperback | Engels | New American Canon
• Places in the Making maps a range of twentieth- and twenty-first century American poets who have used language to evoke the world at various scales. D... Lees meer

Postmodern/Postwar and After

• Paperback | Engels | New American Canon
• Within the past ten years, the field of contemporary American literary studies has changed significantly. Following the turn of the twenty-first centu... Lees meer