American Lives
edited by Alfred Hornung
Hardback (Published)
(June 2013)
ISBN: 9783825361792
5.28 x 8.27 inches
Price: $89.00
In stock
This volume focuses on religious, historical, literary, cultural and political models, developed in America, for the realization and representation of American lives. These original articles demonstrate the importance of different forms of life writing for the disciplines of American Studies. Experts in the field such as literary and cultural critics Sidonie Smith, Craig Howes, Birgit Dawes, historian Thomas Bender, and writer critic Siri Hustvedt among others cover the wide range of the presentation and performance of selves in colonial literature, nature writing, immigrant and campaign auto/biographies, religion, film, TV series, rap music, graphic presentations, comics, and sports. Addressing the transnational self-affirmations of American citizens in Hawai’i, the Caribbean islands, on reservations, and in urban ghettos they represent the diversified panorama of American lives.
This volume focuses on religious, historical, literary, cultural and political models, developed in America, for the realization and representation of American lives. These original articles demonstrate the importance of different forms of life writing for the disciplines of American Studies. Experts in the field such as literary and cultural critics Sidonie Smith, Craig Howes, Birgit Dawes, historian Thomas Bender, and writer critic Siri Hustvedt among others cover the wide range of the presentation and performance of selves in colonial literature, nature writing, immigrant and campaign auto/biographies, religion, film, TV series, rap music, graphic presentations, comics, and sports. Addressing the transnational self-affirmations of American citizens in Hawai’i, the Caribbean islands, on reservations, and in urban ghettos they represent the diversified panorama of American lives.
- Edited by Alfred Hornung
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Ironie und Parodie im zeitgenossischen Roman der Chicanos/as
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Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire’s Aesthetic Architecture of Revolt
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Voices of the Down and Out
The Dust Bowl Migration and the Great Depression in the Songs of Woody Guthrie
Volume 153
AlterNative Spaces
Constructions of Space in Native American and First Nations' Literatures
Volume 146
With a Barbarous Din
Race and Ethnic Encounter in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Volume 266
Kulturkontakt und Racial Presences
Afro-Amerikaner und die deutsche Amerika-Literatur, 1815-1914
Volume 126
Perspectives on Values
The Network of Satire and Humor, the Tragic and the Absurd, the Grotesque and the Monstrous, Play and Irony, Parody and the Comic Mode
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