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Thriving On A Riff : Jazz & Blues Influences In African American Literature And Film

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edited by Graham Lock and David Murray
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Book, Oxford University Press, 2009
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American literature · African American authors · History and criticism · 20th century · Music and literature · History · Motion pictures and music · African Americans · Intellectual life · Blues (Music) in literature · Blues (Music) in motion pictures · Jazz in literature · Jazz in motion pictures · Lock, Graham, 1948- · Murray, David, 1945-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS153.N5 T465 2009 NEW BOOK(MAIN)

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS153.N5 T465 2009	NEW BOOK(MAIN)

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The Assault On Progress : Technology And Time In American Literature

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J. Adam Johns
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Book, University of Alabama Press, 2008
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He explores several works by historians of technology, focusing in detail on the works of literary critic Lewis Mumford, whose examinations of Herman Melville’s novels provide an early example of critical interest in the abandonment of progress as a value.He goes on to study the works of William Faulkner and Ralph Ellison, focusing on the convergence of technology and race - machines and slavery - and highlights the ways that these writers have portrayed humans as reduced to machines, evidence that technological “progress’ is not always progressive, or liberating to humanity.The conclusion argues for a shift in our understanding of the relationship between technology and time. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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American literature · 19th century · History and criticism · Technology in literature · 20th century · Literature and technology · United States · History · 19th century · 20th century · Time in literature · Johns, J. Adam
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS217.T43 J64 2008 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS217.T43 J64 2008	AVAILABLE

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Postmodern American Literature And Its Other

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W. Lawrence Hogue
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Book, University of Illinois Press, 2009
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Although literary postmodernism has been defined in terms of difference, multiplicity, heterogeneity, and plurality, some of the most vaunted authors of postmodern American fiction–such as Thomas Pynchon, Paul Auster, and other white male authors–often fail to adequately represent the distinct subjectivities of African Americans, American Indians, Latinos and Latinas, women, the poor, and the global periphery. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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American literature · 20th century · History and criticism · Postmodernism (Literature) · United States · Hogue, W. Lawrence, 1951-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS228.P68 H64 2009 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS228.P68 H64 2009	AVAILABLE

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American Naturalism And The Jews : Garland, Norris, Dreiser, Wharton, And Cather

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Donald Pizer
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Book, University of Illinois Press, 2008
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American Naturalism and the Jews examines the unabashed anti-Semitism of five notable American naturalist novelists otherwise known for their progressive social values. This antagonism toward Jews and other non-Anglo-Saxon ethnicities intersected not only with these authors’ social reform agendas but also with their literary method of representing the overpowering forces of heredity, social or natural environment, and savage instinct. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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American literature · 20th century · History and criticism · 19th century · Jews in literature · Antisemitism in literature · Naturalism in literature · Authors, American · Political and social views · Pizer, Donald
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS173.J4 P59 2008 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS173.J4 P59 2008	AVAILABLE

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Mammy : A Century Of Race, Gender, And Southern Memory

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Kimberly Wallace-Sanders
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Book, University of Michigan Press, 2008
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“In this insightful analysis of representations of mammy, Wallace-Sanders skillfully illustrates how this core icon of Black womanhood has figured prominently in upholding hierarchies of race, gender, and class in the United States. The book’s many illustrations trace representations of the mammy figure from the nineteenth century to the present, as she has been depicted in advertising, book illustrations, kitchen figurines, and dolls. The author also surveys the rich and previously unmined history of the responses of African American artists to the black mammy stereotype, including contemporary reframings by artists Betye Saar, Michael Ray Charles, and Joyce Scott. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Jemima, · Aunt · American literature · 20th century · History and criticism · Women domestics in literature · African American women in literature · Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature · African American women in popular culture · History · 20th century · Racism in popular culture · United States · Southern States · In literature · Wallace-Sanders, Kimberly, 1962-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS173.D65 W35 2008 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS173.D65 W35 2008	AVAILABLE

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Apostles Of Modernity : American Writers In The Age Of Development

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Guy Reynolds
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Book, University of Nebraska Press, 2008
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Throughout, the ideals of the United States as “apostle of modernity” and sponsor of “development” feature as central to American letters in the decades after World War II.A major contribution to the study of literary internationalism, Apostles of Modernity establishes new paradigms for understanding America?s place in the world and the world?s place in America. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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American literature · 20th century · History and criticism · Internationalism in literature · Foreign influences · Literature and society · United States · History · 20th century · Foreign countries in literature · Reynolds, Guy
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS157 .R48 2008 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS157 .R48 2008	AVAILABLE

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From The Civil War To The Apocalypse : Postmodern History And American Fiction

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Timothy Parrish
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Book, University of Massachusetts Press, 2008
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This is a reconsideration of the relationship between history and fiction in the context of postmodernism. Yet, contrary to the fears of some historians, such arguments have not undermined the practice of history as a meaningful enterprise so much as they have highlighted the appeal history has as a narrative craft. In addressing the postmodernist claim that history works no differently than fiction, Timothy Parrish rejects the implication that history is dead or hopelessly relativistic. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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American literature · 20th century · History and criticism · History in literature · Literature and history · United States · History · 20th century · Postmodernism (Literature) · Parrish, Timothy, 1964-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS228.H57 P37 2008 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS228.H57 P37 2008	AVAILABLE

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Prisons, Race, And Masculinity In Twentieth-century U.S. Literature And Film

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Peter Caster
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Book, Ohio State University Press, 2008
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In Prisons, Race, and Masculinity, Peter Caster demonstrates the centrality of imprisonment in American culture, illustrating how incarceration, an institution inseparable from race, has shaped and continues to shape U.S. history and literature in the starkest expression of what W. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Imprisonment in literature · American literature · 20th century · History and criticism · Imprisonment in motion pictures · Masculinity in literature · Masculinity in motion pictures · African Americans · Race identity · Motion pictures and literature · United States · Film and video adaptations · Executions and executioners in literature · Caster, Peter, 1972-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS228.I66 C37 2008 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS228.I66 C37 2008	AVAILABLE

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The Real South : Southern Narrative In The Age Of Cultural Reproduction

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Scott Romine
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Book, Louisiana State University Press, 2008
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Less concerned with what actually constitutes an “authentic” or “real” South than in how these concepts are used today, The Real South explores a wide range of southern narratives that describe and travel through virtual, simulated, and commodified Souths. If one South inevitably presents itself as the real South, the presence of another South and its competing rhetorics of authenticity, its alternative (but potentially intersecting) stories, inevitably puts the South in play as a site of negotiation and mutual navigation. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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American literature · Southern States · History and criticism · 20th century · History and criticism · Literature and technology · History · 20th century · Place (Philosophy) in literature · Regionalism in literature · Intellectual life · Romine, Scott
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS261 .R535 2008 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS261 .R535 2008	AVAILABLE

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The New Negro : Readings On Race, Representation, And African American Culture, 1892-1938

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edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Gene Andrew Jarrett
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Book, Princeton University Press, 2007
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When African American intellectuals announced the birth of the “New Negro” around the turn of the twentieth century, they were attempting through a bold act of renaming to change the way blacks were depicted and perceived in America. Nothing less than a strategy to re-create the public face of “the race,” the New Negro became a dominant figure of racial uplift between Reconstruction and World War II, as well as a central idea of the Harlem, or New Negro, Renaissance. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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American literature · African American authors · History and criticism · African Americans · Intellectual life · African Americans in literature · United States · Civilization · African influences · 20th century · Gates, Henry Louis · Jarrett, Gene Andrew, 1975-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS153.N5 N49 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS153.N5 N49 2007	AVAILABLE

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Experiencing Fiction : Judgments, Progressions, And The Rhetorical Theory Of Narrative

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James Phelan
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Book, Ohio State University Press, 2007
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Phelan contends that focusing on the three main kinds of judgment?interpretive, ethical, and aesthetic?and on the principles underlying a narrative?s movement from beginning to end reveals the experience of reading fiction to be potentially sharable. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Narration (Rhetoric) · American fiction · 20th century · History and criticism · Theory, etc · English fiction · Reader-response criticism · American literature · Explication · English literature · Phelan, James, 1951-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS374.N285 P47 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS374.N285 P47 2007	AVAILABLE

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A Vocabulary Of Thinking : Gertrude Stein And Contemporary North American Women’s Innovative Writing

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Deborah M. Mix
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Book, University Of Iowa Press, 2007
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Stein, Gertrude, · 1874-1946 · Criticism and interpretation · American literature · Women authors · History and criticism · Literature, Experimental · United States · History and criticism · 20th century · Women and literature · History · Feminism and literature · 20th century · Mix, Deborah M
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS228.W65 M59 2007 AVAILABLE

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