The Color of Sex

Mason Stokes

• Hardcover | Engels | New Americanists
• In The Color of Sex Mason Stokes offers new ways of thinking about whiteness by exploring its surprisingly ambivalent partnership with heterosexuality... Lees meer

Reimagining the American Pacific

Rob Wilson

• Hardcover | Engels | New Americanists
• In this compelling critique Rob Wilson explores the creation of the "Pacific Rim" in the American imagination and how the concept has been variously a... Lees meer

Cradle of Liberty

Caroline Levander

• Hardcover | Engels | New Americanists
• Throughout American literature, the figure of the child is often represented in opposition to the adult. In Cradle of Liberty Caroline F. Levander pro... Lees meer

The Other Henry James

John Carlos Rowe

• Hardcover | Engels | New Americanists
• In The Other Henry James , John Carlos Rowe offers a new vision of Henry James as a social critic whose later works can now be read as rich with homoe... Lees meer

Producing American Races

Patricia McKee

• Hardcover | Engels | New Americanists
• In Producing American Races Patricia McKee examines three authors who have powerfully influenced the formation of racial identities in the United Stat... Lees meer

Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain

Kate A Baldwin

• Hardcover | Engels | New Americanists
• Examining the significant influence of the Soviet Union on the work of four major African American authors--and on twentieth-century American debates ... Lees meer

The Pragmatic Mind

Mark Bauerlein

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• The Pragmatic Mind is a study of the pragmatism of Emerson, James, and Peirce and its overlooked relevance for the neopragmatism of thinkers like Rich... Lees meer

The Seventies Now

Stephen Paul Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | New Americanists
• Most would agree that American culture changed dramatically from the 1960s to the 1980s. Yet the 1970s, the decade "in between," is still somehow thou... Lees meer

Reconstituting the American Renaissance

Jay Grossman

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• Challenging the standard periodization of American literary history, Reconstituting the American Renaissance reinterprets the works of Ralph Waldo Eme... Lees meer

New World Drama

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

• Hardcover | Engels | New Americanists
• In New World Drama , Elizabeth Maddock Dillon turns to the riotous scene of theatre in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world to explore the creation o... Lees meer

Latent Destinies

Patrick O'Donnell

• Hardcover | Engels | New Americanists
• Latent Destinies examines the formation of postmodern sensibilities and their relationship to varieties of paranoia that have been seen as widespread ... Lees meer

The Poetics of Transition

Jonathan Levin

• Hardcover | Engels | New Americanists
• The Poetics of Transition examines the connection between American pragmatism and literary modernism by focusing on the concept of transition as a the... Lees meer

Publishing the Family

June Howard

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• In Publishing the Family June Howard turns a study of the collaborative novel The Whole Family into a lens through which to examine American literatur... Lees meer

Racism and Cultural Studies

E San Juan

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• In Racism and Cultural Studies E. San Juan Jr. offers a historical-materialist critique of practices in multiculturalism and cultural studies. Rejecti... Lees meer

José Martí's Our America

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• Considerable attention has been given to Cuban poet, essayist, and activist José Martí's 1891 essay "Nuestra América," but relatively little has been ... Lees meer

Coyote Country

Arnold E Davidson

• Hardcover | Engels | New Americanists
• For most North Americans--Canadians as well as Americans--the term "Western" evokes images of the frontier, brave sheriffs and ruthless outlaws, good ... Lees meer

Deep River

Paul Allen Anderson

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• "The American Negro," Arthur Schomburg wrote in 1925, "must remake his past in order to make his future." Many Harlem Renaissance figures agreed that ... Lees meer

The Sign of the Cannibal

Geoffrey Sanborn

• Hardcover | Engels | New Americanists
• In The Sign of the Cannibal Geoffrey Sanborn offers a major reassessment of the work of Herman Melville, a definitive history of the post-Enlightenmen... Lees meer

Authentic Blackness

J Martin Favor

• Hardcover | Engels | New Americanists
• What constitutes "blackness" in American culture? And who gets to define whether or not someone is truly African American? Is a struggling hip-hop art... Lees meer

Countermodernism and Francophone Literary Culture

Keith L Walker

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• Keith L. Walker traverses the traditionally imposed boundaries of geography and race as he examines the literary culture produced by French speakers a... Lees meer

Women's Camera Work

Judith Fryer Davidov

• Hardcover | Engels | New Americanists
• Women's Camera Work explores how photographs have been and are used to construct versions of history and examines how photographic representations of ... Lees meer

The Errant Art of Moby-Dick

William V Spanos

• Hardcover | Engels | New Americanists
• In The Errant Art of Moby-Dick, one of America's most distinguished critics reexamines Melville's monumental novel and turns the occasion into a medit... Lees meer

Homosexuality in Cold War America

Robert J Corber

• Hardcover | Engels | New Americanists
• Challenging widely held assumptions about postwar gay male culture and politics, Homosexuality in Cold War America examines how gay men in the 1950s r... Lees meer

Empire Burlesque

Daniel T O'Hara

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• Empire Burlesque traces the emergence of the contemporary global context within which American critical identity is formed. Daniel T. O'Hara argues th... Lees meer