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The American Mind: Selections from the Literature of the United States - Vol. 2

Book by Harry R. Warfel, Ralph H. Gabriel, Stanley T. Williams; American Book, 1937

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American Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...1937. Brownell W. C., American Prose Masters , 1923. Buck...The Social Criticism of Literature , 1916. Calverton V. F., The Liberation of American Literature , 1932...1922. -----, Classic Americans , 1931. Charvat William, The Origins of American Critical Thought, 1810...
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Teaching American Ethnic Literatures: Nineteen Essays

Book by John R. Maitino, David R. Peck; University of New Mexico Press, 1996

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African Americans In Literature--Study And Teaching, American Literature--Minority Authors--Study And Teaching, Asian Americans In Literature--Study And Teaching, Ethnic Groups In Literature--Study And Teaching, Ethnicity In Literature--Study And Teaching, Hispanic Americans In Literature--Study And Teaching, Indians In Literature--Study And Teaching, Literature And Society--United States--Study And Teaching, Minorities In Literature--Study And Teaching, Pluralism (Social Sciences) In Literature--Study And Teaching

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

...survey classes, ethnic American literature helps us to redefine the very notion of "American." As these essays show...experiences of Japanese Americans were the same on both sides...The chapters on Native American and Mexican American literatures the essays on Leslie Marmon...
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Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context

Book by Elaine H. Kim; Temple University Press, 1982

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American Literature--Asian American Authors--History And Criticism, Asian Americans In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Asian American Review , 312 n. 1 Asian Americans and other racial minorities, 232 - 248 . See also Afro-Americans; Native Americans in Asian American literature Asian American Theatre Company, xiii...
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American Literature in Nineteenth-Century England

Book by Clarence Gohdes; Columbia University Press, 1944

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American Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, American Literature--History And Criticism--Bibliography, Book Industries And Trade--Great Britain, English Periodicals, Literature, Comparative--American And English, Literature, Comparative--English And American

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Nicoll, "The Present State of American Literature," Bookman , XI Dec., 1896...303-304. Henry James, "American Letter: the Question of the...1898 , 356-358. ----- "American Letter," Literature , II April...
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Dictionary of Native American Literature

Book by Andrew Wiget; Garland, 1994

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American Literature--Indian Authors--Encyclopedias, Indian Literature--United States--Encyclopedias, Indians In Literature--Encyclopedias

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...what position it occupies in American literature. A good comparison might...foot in each boat. Native American literature today is also not just being...in English. There is an American Indian literature in Spanish though it is little...

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Journal Articles on: american literature

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American Literature: A Vanishing Subject?

Journal article by Andrew Delbanco; Daedalus, Vol. 135, 2006

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American literature--History, American writers--Works, Authors, American--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...at Harvard not in American but in French literature, and who became a...he considered the American tendency toward vulgarity...own version of how Americans had fallen away from...sustaining, American literature has always been mainly...been a Fellow of the American Academy since 2001...Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense...
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From Nostalgia to Critique: An Overview of Arab American Literature

Journal article by Tanyss Ludescher; MELUS, Vol. 31, 2006

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Arab Americans--Analysis, Arab Americans--History, Arabic literature--Analysis, Arabs--Emigration and immigration, United States--Social aspects

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...as "regular Americans" and hoped to...produced so little literature. ("Arab-American Literature...facing the Arab American community today...constitutes Arab American literature. Arab Americans are part of an...
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Melancholia as Resistance in Contemporary African American Literature

Journal article by Eva Tettenborn; MELUS, Vol. 31, 2006

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African American authors--Works, African American literature--Forecasts and trends, African American writers--Works, American literature--African American authors, American literature--Forecasts and trends, Depression (Mood disorder)--Usage, Depression, Mental--Usage, Disability studies--Forecasts and trends, Symbolism--Usage

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...Contemporary African American Literature The social position of African Americans throughout the...impact on African American culture. Karla...efforts of African Americans to demand full...nevertheless, African American literature must engage...
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Literature as Engagement: Teaching African American Literature to Korean Students

Journal article by Myung Ja Kim; MELUS, Vol. 29, 2004

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African American literature--Criticism and interpretation, American literature--African American authors, American literature--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...limited to African Americans, Asian Americans, or any minority...introduction to Teaching American Ethnic Literatures that "ethnic American...and reposition our literature--its borders...cultures represented in American ethnic literature...among Koreans, Korean Americans, and African Americans...
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Contemporary American Indian Literatures and the Oral Tradition

Journal article by Dean Rader; MELUS, Vol. 27, 2002

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American Indian Literature and the Southwest: Contexts and Dispositions (Book), Contemporary American Indian Literatures and the Oral Tradition (Book), The Heart Is a Drum: Continuance and Resistance in Contemporary American Indian Poetry (Book)

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Contemporary American Indian Literatures and the Oral Tradition...American Indian Literature and the Southwest...of American Indian literature, text-based approaches...on American Indian Literature. Susan Berry Brill...Contemporary American Indian Literatures The Oral Tradition...

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Magazine Articles on: american literature

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Lisa Majaj Speaks on Palestinian-american Literature

Magazine article by Randa Kayyali; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. XVII, June 30, 1998

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Arab Americans, Literature, Majaj, Lisa, Poetry, Washington, DC

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...breaking from earlier Arab-American writers like Kahlil Gibran...distinguished history of Arab literature. Following Gibran, there was a lack of Arab-American writing at a tune when many Arab-Americans were denying their identity...trying to create an Arab-American literary space and genre...
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Arab American Literature Panel

Magazine article by Delinda C. Hanley; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. 28, August 2009

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American literature, Arab Americans, Books

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Arab American Literature Panel by Delinda C. Hanley A PANEL on Arab American literature, moderated by film critic Dr. Jack...Verdict on Arabs after 9/11, included Syrian-American radio anchor Dalel Khalil, author of FromVeils...
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Don't Read Politics into American Literature

Magazine article by Peter Shaw; Insight on the News, Vol. 10, May 23, 1994

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Literature--Study and teaching, Moby Dick (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Politics and literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Recovering American Literature (Book)--Authorship

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...other great work of literature, Moby-Dick must...shortcomings of America and Americans. Ahab is viewed chiefly...by Ahab and other American sailors and Melvilles...who politicize our literature is their neglect of...teachers politicize American literature is not to deny that literatures frequent political...
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Going Native: When American Literature Became Good Enough for Americans, What Happened to the Literary Canon?

Magazine article by Morris Dickstein; American Scholar, Vol. 76, Winter 2007

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American literature--Forecasts and trends, American literature--Study and teaching, American writers--Works, Authors, American--Works, Universities and colleges--Curricula, Universities and colleges--United States

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...Going Native: When American Literature Became Good Enough for Americans, What Happened to...globe, who reads an American book? --Sydney...works of American literature stand several cuts...comedie humaine of American society cannot match...fail to engage us as Americans, even as we are leery...
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An American Breeze: A Whirlwind Theatrical Tour of American Literature

Magazine article by Helen Mondloch; World and I, Vol. 24, March 2009

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American literature, An American Breeze: A Whirlwind Theatrical Tour of American Literature (Play)--Management, Mondloch, Helen--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Theatrical Tour of American Literature. by Helen Mondloch...He helped make the American Dream more inclusive...the Lincoln of our literature." Chorus-- Oh Twain...made us proud to be Americans, And desperately ashamed...Various voices of the American experience; a rowdy...

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Newspaper Articles on: american literature

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Celebrating Alfred Kazin; How Provocative Critic Felt American Literature in His Bones

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 12, 2003

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...How provocative critic felt American literature in his bones. Byline: William...interpretation of modern American prose literature," published the year he...read everything-not just American literature but the critical books about...
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Tributes to Updike, American Literature's National Treasure; Rabbit at Rest: Pulitzer Prizewinning Writer John Updike, Who Died Yesterday Aged 76

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 28, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Tributes to Updike, American Literatures National Treasure; Rabbit...greatest generation" of American novelists. The 76-year...Philip Roth, Updike dominated American fiction for half a century...constitutes a loss to our literature that is immeasurable...
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Cox Island Might Be Named for the Ship Captain and Businessman Who Bought It in 1895, but the Historic Two-Story Home That Inspired a Local Icon, That Occupies a Spot in American Literature and Northwest Lore, Was Named for a Businessman Named Benedict

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), September 30, 2007

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...Inspired a Local Icon, That Occupies a Spot in American Literature and Northwest Lore, Was Named for a Businessman...inspired a local icon, that occupies a spot in American literature and Northwest lore, was named for a businessman...
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MEET USA's ONLY BARD; How Love of Welsh under Glare of TV Literature Inspired the Wall Show American to Learn the Language RHYS HUTCHINGS the Front Man of the Cartoonish Hip-Hop Band Goldie Lookin' Chain Age: 35 From: Newport Why Does He Want to Learn Welsh? "Wales Is My Home. I Am Welsh Tutor: Presenter Nia Parry in the TV Series Fabulous in the 1980s. She Commissioned by the Welsh Write 'Finger Food'

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), July 5, 2011

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Television programs--Study and teaching

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Inspired the Wall Show American to Learn the Language...Welsh language and literature. Last year he won...treasures of Welsh literature so I persevered. It...Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University...the history of the American Civil War based on...
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NOVELIST'S A HIT WITH AMERICANS; City Author Compared to Dylan Thomas As: US Literature Fans Snap Up Book Following Rave Reviews

Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), February 18, 2011

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

NOVELISTS A HIT WITH AMERICANS; City Author Compared to Dylan Thomas As: US Literature Fans Snap Up Book Following...received a rave review in American literary journal PublishersWeekly...seems surreal that so many Americans would enjoy what is very...interest in his book down to the American fascination with its Celtic...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: american literature

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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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AMERICAN LITERATURE literature in English produced...A number of seminal works of American literature were written during the 1850s...American Fiction The connection of American literature with writing in England and Europe...
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Spanish American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

SPANISH AMERICAN LITERATURE the writings of both the European...Land: An Anthology of Latin American Folklore in Literature (1961); W. K. Jones...E. A. Imbert, Spanish-American Literature: A History (2 vol., 2d...
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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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ENGLISH LITERATURE literature written in English since...speakers elsewhere, see American literature ; Australian...20th-century English literature were not English; Shaw...S. Eliot was born an American, and Conrad was Polish...
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Mexican Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

MEXICAN LITERATURE see Spanish American literature . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Children's Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...tradition in childrens literature, as in Allen Says...the Japanese-American immigrant experience...distinguished work of literature for children...first time to an American, Maurice Sendak...Believe: Tracing the Literature of Imagination...the Shaping of American Childrens Literature...

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