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The Scary Mason-Dixon Line : African American Writers And The South

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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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Promised Land : Thirteen Books That Changed America

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Jay Parini
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Book, 1st ed, Doubleday, 2008
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In Promised Land, Jay Parini repossesses that vibrant, intellectual heritage by examining the life and times of thirteen “books that changed America.” Their influence remains pervasive, however hidden, and in his essays Jay Parini demonstrates how these books entered American life and altered how we think and act in the world. The thirteen “books that changed America”: Of Plymouth Plantation ? The Promised Land ? The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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American literature · History and criticism · National characteristics, American, in literature · Literature and morals · United States · History · Literature and society · Books · Reviews · Books and reading · In literature · Historiography · Parini, Jay
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS169.N35 P37 2008 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS169.N35 P37 2008	AVAILABLE

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Harriet Wilson’s New England : Race, Writing, And Region

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edited by JerriAnne Boggis, Eve Allegra Raimon, Barbara A. White
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Book, University of New Hampshire Press, 2007
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With this collection, the first devoted entirely to Wilson and her novel, the editors have compiled essays that seek to understand Wilson within New England and New England as it might have appeared to Wilson and her contemporaries. Harriet Wilson’s New England joins other critical works in the emerging field known as the New Regionalism in resurrecting historically hidden ethnic communities in rural New England and exploring their erasure from public memory. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Wilson, Harriet E., · 1825-1900 · Criticism and interpretation · Our Nig · Women and literature · United States · History · 19th century · African American women authors · Race in literature · Religion and literature · New England · Intellectual life · In literature · Boggis, JerriAnne · Raimon, Eve Allegra, 1957- · White, Barbara Ann, 1942-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3334.W39 Z69 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS3334.W39 Z69 2007	AVAILABLE

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Writing The Republic : Liberalism And Morality In American Political Fiction

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Anthony Hutchison
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Book, Columbia University Press, 2007
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In this provocative book, Anthony Hutchison challenges the belief that the American novel is “antipolitical” and condemns the relative absence of American literature in studies of the political novel. By concentrating on the tension between issues of liberalism and morality in the political thought of these American novelists, Hutchison hopes to advance a more nuanced and textured understanding of the U.S. political tradition. He scrutinizes a number of critical studies and makes a cogent case for a more interdisciplinary approach to the American political novel that focuses less on the politics of representation and more on the representation of politics. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Political fiction, American · History and criticism · Liberalism in literature · Ethics in literature · Politics in literature · American fiction · 19th century · 20th century · United States · In literature · Hutchison, Anthony, 1969-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS374.P6 H87 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS374.P6 H87 2007	AVAILABLE

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin As Visual Culture

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Jo-Ann Morgan
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Book, University of Missouri Press, 2007
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By personalizing the experiences of American slaves, Harriet Beecher Stowe s Uncle Tom s Cabin had a profound effect on public attitudes toward slavery on the eve of the Civil War, but Stowe s narrative was not the whole story. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher, · 1811-1896. · Uncle Tom’s cabin · Uncle Tom (Fictitious character) · Art and society · United States · History · 19th century · Art and literature · African Americans in art · National characteristics in art · Southern States · In literature · Morgan, Jo-Ann
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS2954.U6 M67 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS2954.U6 M67 2007	AVAILABLE

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American Literature And Culture, 1900-1960

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Gail McDonald
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Book, Blackwell Pub, 2007
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This introduction to American literature and culture from 1900 to 1960 is organized around four major ideas about America: that is it ?big?, ?new?, ?rich?, and ?free?. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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American literature · 20th century · History and criticism · National characteristics, American, in literature · Literature and society · United States · History · 20th century · Civilization · In literature · McDonald, Gail
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS221 .M394 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS221 .M394 2007	AVAILABLE

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The Multiple Worlds Of Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon : Eighteenth-century Contexts, Postmodern Observations

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edited by Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds
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Book, Camden House, 2005
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When Thomas Pynchon’s novel Mason & Dixon was published in 1997, it marked a deep shift in Pynchon’s career and in American letters in general. The novel was a New York Times bestseller.This volume of new essays studies the interface between 18th- and 20th-century culture both in Pynchon’s novel and in the historical past. It offers fresh thinking about Pynchon’s work not only because it deals with his most recent novel, but also because the contributors take up the linkages between the 18th and 20th centuries in studies that are as concerned with culture as with the literary text itself. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Pynchon, Thomas. · Mason & Dixon · Mason, Charles, · 1728-1786 · In literature · Dixon, Jeremiah · Biographical fiction, American · History and criticism · Postmodernism (Literature) · United States · Literature and history · Frontier and pioneer life in literature · Scientists in literature · Hinds, Elizabeth Jane Wall, 1960-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3566.Y55 M3736 2005 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS3566.Y55 M3736 2005	AVAILABLE

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Toni Morrison And The Bible : Contested Intertextualities

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edited by Shirley A. Stave
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Book, Peter Lang, 2006
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Ideal for courses on Morrison or on explorations of the intersection of religion and literature, this collection treats its topic with sophistication, considering “religion” in its broadest possible sense, and examining syncretic theologies as well as mainstream religions in its attempt to locate Morrison’s work in a spiritual-theological nexus. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Morrison, Toni · Criticism and interpretation · Bible · In literature · Women and literature · United States · History · 20th century · African Americans in literature · Spirituality in literature · Stave, Shirley A., 1952-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3563.O8749 Z8957 2006 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS3563.O8749 Z8957 2006	AVAILABLE

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Creole America : The West Indies And The Formation Of Literature And Culture In The New Republic

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Sean X. Goudie
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Book, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006
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American literature · 1783-1850 · History and criticism · West Indian influences · Literature and society · United States · History · 18th century · Colonies in literature · Civilization · 1783-1865 · West Indies · In literature · Goudie, Sean X
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS208 .G68 2006 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS208 .G68 2006	AVAILABLE

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Julia Alvarez : Writing A New Place On The Map

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Kelli Lyon Johnson
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Book, University of New Mexico Press, 2005
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This book provides the first book-length examination of the writings of Julia Alvarez, the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and nearly a dozen other books of fiction and non-fiction and one of today?s most widely read Latina writers. To Alvarez, linguistic and cultural multiplicity represents the reality of what it means to be American, and she offers a compelling vision of both self and community in which the homeland Alvarez seeks is the narrative space of her own writings. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Alvarez, Julia · Criticism and interpretation · Women and literature · United States · History · 20th century · Dominican Americans in literature · Immigrants in literature · Dominican Republic · In literature · Johnson, Kelli Lyon, 1969-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3551.L845 Z74 2005 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS3551.L845 Z74 2005	AVAILABLE

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Traveling South : Travel Narratives And The Construction Of American Identity / John D. Cox

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Book, University of Georgia Press, 2005
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National characteristics, American · History · Sources · Travelers’ writings, American · Travel in literature · National characteristics, American, in literature · American literature · 1783-1850 · History and criticism · 19th century · United States · Description and travel · Southern States · Civilization · 1783-1865 · In literature · Cox, John D
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(LOWER LEVEL) E161.5 .C69 2005 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E161.5 .C69 2005	AVAILABLE

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Whitewashing Uncle Tom’s Cabin : Nineteenth-century Women Novelists Respond To Stowe

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Joy Jordan-Lake
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Book, 1st ed, Vanderbilt University Press, 2005
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Jordan-Lake begins by considering the male plantation literary tradition and then demonstrates how white women novelists of the anti?Uncle Tom school adopted characteristics from sentimental fiction, emulating Stowe?s own strategies more than those of their male allies. But contrary to their intent, Jordan-Lake shows, their works succumb to evasions, displacements, and contradictions that disrupt their surface narratives and reveal even their most noble women characters as mere pawns in a patriarchal game in which white society?s pursuit and maintenance of wealth are made to appear humane, even holy. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher, · 1811-1896. · Uncle Tom’s cabin · American fiction · Women authors · History and criticism · Slavery in literature · Women and literature · United States · History · 19th century · White authors · Women, White · Intellectual life · African Americans in literature · Plantation life in literature · Southern States · In literature · Jordan-Lake, Joy, 1963-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS374.S58 J67 2005 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS374.S58 J67 2005	AVAILABLE

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Spain’s Long Shadow : The Black Legend, Off-whiteness, And Anglo-American Empire

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María DeGuzmán
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Book, University of Minnesota Press, 2005
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England and the Netherlands, Spain’s imperial rivals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, imagined Spain as cruel and degenerate barbarians of la leyenda negra (the Black Legend), in league with the powers of “blackest darkness” and driven by “dark motives.” Surveying a broad range of texts and images from Poe’s “William Wilson” and John Singer Sargent’s “El Jaleo” to Richard Wright’s “Pagan Spain” and Kathy Acker’s Don Quixote, Spain’s Long Shadow shows how the creation of Anglo-American ethnicity as specifically American has depended on the casting of Spain as a colonial alter ego. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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American literature · Spanish influences · Literature, Comparative · American and Spanish · Spanish and American · History and criticism · Imperialism in literature · Spaniards in literature · Ethnicity in literature · Race in literature · United States · Civilization · Spain · Foreign public opinion, American · Relations · In literature · DeGuzmán, María
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS159.S7 D44 2005 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS159.S7 D44 2005	AVAILABLE

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Blood & Irony : Southern White Women’s Narratives Of The Civil War, 1861-1937

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Sarah E. Gardner
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Book, University of North Carolina Press, 2003
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During the Civil War, its devastating aftermath, and the decades following, many southern white women turned to writing as a way to make sense of their experiences. Combining varied historical and literary sources, Sarah Gardner argues that women served as guardians of the collective memory of the war and helped define and reshape southern identity. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Group identity · Southern States · History · American literature · Women authors · History and criticism · Women and literature · 19th century · 20th century · Group identity in literature · Confederate States of America · Historiography · United States · Civil War, 1861-1865 · Intellectual life · 1865- · Personal narratives, Confederate · Literature and the war · In literature · Gardner, Sarah E
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(LOWER LEVEL) E487 .G27 2003 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E487 .G27 2003	AVAILABLE

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