Trickster Figure in American Literature, Morgan Winifred

Автор: Herring
Название: The Cambridge Companion to American Gay and Lesbian Literature
ISBN: 1107646189 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107646186
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Описание: This Companion examines the connections between LGBTQ populations and American literature from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It addresses how queerness pervades persons, texts, bodies, and reading. In so doing this Companion details the chief genres, historical backgrounds, and interpretive practices that support the analysis of LGBTQ literatures in the United States.

Автор: Maxwell William J.
Название: F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover`s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature
ISBN: 0691130205 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691130200
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Описание: Few institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover`s white-bread Federal Bureau of Investigation. But behind the scenes the FBI`s hostility to black protest was energized by fear of and respect for black writing. Drawing on nearly 14,000 pages of newly released FBI files, F.B. Eyes exposes the Bureau`s intimate

Автор: Rosenthal Debra J.
Название: Performatively Speaking: Speech and Action in Antebellum American Literature
ISBN: 0813936977 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813936970
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In Performatively Speaking, Debra Rosenthal draws on speech act theory to open up the current critical conversation about antebellum American fiction and culture and to explore what happens when writers use words not just to represent action but to constitute action itself. Examining moments of discursive action in a range of canonical and noncanonical works—T. S. Arthur's temperance tales, Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick—she shows how words act when writers no longer hold to a difference between writing and doing.The author investigates, for example, the voluntary self-binding nature of a promise, the formulaic but transformative temperance pledge, the power of Ruth Hall's signature or name on legal documents, the punitive hate speech of Hester Prynne's scarlet letter A, the prohibitory vodun hex of Simon Legree's slave Cassy, and Captain Ahab's injurious insults to second mate Stubb. Through her comparative methodology and historicist and feminist readings, Rosenthal asks readers to rethink the ways that speech and action intersect.

Автор: Rutledge Gregory
Название: The Epic Trickster in American Literatue: From Sunjata to S(o)UL
ISBN: 0415636922 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415636926
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Just as Africa and the West have traditionally fit into binaries of Darkness/Enlightenment, Savage/Modern, Ugly/Beautiful, and Ritual/Art, among others, much of Western cultural production rests upon the archetypal binary of Trickster/Epic, with trickster aesthetics and commensurate cultural forms characterizing Africa. Challenging this binary and the exceptionalism that underlies anti-hegemonic efforts even today, this book begins with the scholarly foundations that mapped out African trickster continuities in the United States and excavated the aesthetics of traditional African epic performances. Rutledge locates trickster-like capacities within the epic hero archetype (the "epic trickster" paradigm) and constructs an Homeric Diaspora, which is to say that the modern Homeric performance foundation lies at an absolute time and distance away from the ancient storytelling performance needed to understand the cautionary aesthetic inseparable from epic potential. As traditional epic performances demonstrate, unchecked epic trickster dynamism anticipates not only brutal imperialism and creative diversity, but the greatest threat to everyone, an eco-apocalypse. Relying upon the preeminent scholarship on African-American trickster-heroes, traditional African heroic performances, and cultural studies approaches to Greco-Roman epics, Rutledge traces the epic trickster aesthetic through three seminal African-American novels keenly attuned to the American Homeric Diaspora: Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition, Richard Wright's Native Son, and Toni Morrison's Beloved.

Автор: Conway, Chrisopher B.
Название: The cult of Bolivar in Latin American literature
ISBN: 0813026830 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813026831
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Описание: A study of the Latin American cult of Simon Bolivar in modern literature. It addresses a broad array of texts that include fiction, children`s literature, poetry, journalism and presidential speeches, to examine the interplay of myth and disillusionment in modern representations of Bolivar.

Название: Critical approaches to american working-class literature
ISBN: 0415885469 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415885461
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Описание: Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature is the first anthology to focus on literary criticism of working-class American literature. The literature examined is from the 1850s to the present and includes work in several genres. Several prominent scholars have contributed, and emerging scholars are represented as well.

Автор: Park Stephen M.
Название: The Pan American Imagination: Contested Visions of the Hemisphere in Twentieth-Century Literature
ISBN: 0813936659 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813936659
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Описание: In the history of the early twentieth-century Americas, visions of hemispheric unity flourished, and the notion of a transnational American identity was embraced by artists, intellectuals, and government institutions. In The Pan American Imagination, Stephen Park explores the work of several Pan American modernists who challenged the body of knowledge being produced about Latin America, crossing the disciplinary boundaries of academia as well as the formal boundaries of artistic expression - from literary texts and travel writing to photography, painting, and dance. Park invests in an interdisciplinary approach, which he frames as a politically resistant intellectual practice, using it not only to examine the historical phenomenon of Pan Americanism but also to explore the implications for current transnational scholarship.