Fictions of America

Fictions of America
Author: Ulrich Baer,Smaran Dayal
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2020-11-23
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1735778982

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An unprecedented compendium of milestones in the history of American literature. Presents all of the "first" literary works that broke barriers and inaugurated new traditions; with concise introductions.

Hemispheric Imaginations

Hemispheric Imaginations
Author: Helmbrecht Breinig
Publsiher: Dartmouth College Press
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2016-12-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781611689914

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What image of Latin America have North American fiction writers created, found, or echoed, and how has the prevailing discourse about the region shaped their work? How have their writings contributed to the discursive construction of our southern neighbors, and how has the literature undermined this construction and added layers of complexity that subvert any approach based on stereotypes? Combining American Studies, Canadian Studies, Latin American Studies, and Cultural Theory, Breinig relies on long scholarly experience to answer these and other questions. Hemispheric Imaginations, an ambitious interdisciplinary study of literary representations of Latin America as encounters with the other, is among the most extensive such studies to date. It will appeal to a broad range of scholars of American Studies.

Foundational Fictions

Foundational Fictions
Author: Doris Sommer
Publsiher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 460
Release: 1991-05-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0520913868

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National consolidation and romantic novels go hand in hand in Latin America. Foundational Fictions shows how 19th century patriotism and heterosexual passion historically depend on one another to engender productive citizens.

Fictions of America

Fictions of America
Author: Judie Newman
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2007-12-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781134316168

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The Internet has had a huge impact on channels of communication and information, reaching across time and space to connect the world through globalisation. In this Internet-led world, story links to story, windows open on new stories and no overall authority establishes priority. This sense of globalisation has raised many questions for contemporary American Novelists, primarily the usefulness or redundancy of narrative and its potentially adaptive function. What are the right stories for such a broadband world? How do contemporary American novelists respond to issues such as the influence of the multinational corporation and its predecessors, human rights Imperialism, the literary work as a marketable commodity, translation as betrayal, data overload, and the implosion of the virtual into the biosphere? Is globalisation inevitable – or is it a fiction which fiction turns into reality? Fictions of America explores these questions and looks at the ways in which India, China and Africa can be said to have underwritten American culture, how literature has been marketed globally, and how novelists have answered back to power with resistant fictions. Judie Newman examines a wide range of fiction from the mid nineteenth to the twenty-first century including the transnational adoption narrative, short story, historical novel, slave narrative, international bestseller and Western to illustrate her argument. Looking closely at authors such as Bharati Mukherjee, John Updike, Emily Prager, Hannah Crafts, Zora Neale Hurston, David Bradley, Peter Høeg, and Cormac McCarthy, Fictions of America provides a bold response to the crucial questions raised by globalisation.

Stories of America Volume 1

Stories of America  Volume 1
Author: Sonya Shafer,Charles Morris
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2011-04
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 1616341106

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Settle back with these stories of America¿s early years and watch your children¿s eyes light up with interest and patriotism. Mr. Morris¿s narratives, originally published in 1901, make you feel as if you are listening to a kindly grandfather recounting tales from his past. Volume 1 presents stories from Columbus through the Alamo (about 1850).

Stories of America Volume 2

Stories of America  Volume 2
Author: Charles Morris,Sonya Shafer
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2012-04
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 1616341696

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America and Other Fictions

America and Other Fictions
Author: Ed Simon
Publsiher: John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2018-11-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781785358463

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At a moment of cultural and political crisis, with forces of reaction seemingly ascendant throughout the West, it's fair to ask what use does anyone have for America, God, or any other similar fictions? What use does theological language have for the radical facing the apocalypse? Among the subjects considered: the need for an Augustinian left, legacies of American violence, speaking in tongues, the humanities facing climate change, the maturity of realizing that you will die, how to sail towards Utopia, and witches. 'Ed Simon’s essays help readers to understand how we got to this complicated moment in American religious history. Deft, thoughtful, and creatively told.' Kaya Oakes, author of Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture

Capital Fictions

Capital Fictions
Author: Ericka Beckman
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Economics and literature
ISBN: 0816679207

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Between 1870 and 1930, Latin American countries were incorporated into global capitalist networks like never before, mainly as exporters of raw materials and importers of manufactured goods. Capital Fictions investigates literature's key role in imagining and interpreting the rapid transformations unleashed by Latin America's first major wave of capitalist modernization. Using an innovative blend of literary and economic analysis and drawing from a rich interdisciplinary archive, Ericka Beckman provides the first extended evaluation of Export Age literary production. She traces the emergence of a distinct set of fictions, fantasies, and illusions that accompanied the rise of export-led, dependent capitalism. These "capital fictions" range from promotional pamphlets to Guatemalan coffee and advertisements for French fashions to novels about the stock market collapse in Argentina and rubber extraction in the Amazon. Questioning the opposition between culture and economics in Latin America and elsewhere, Capital Fictions shows that literature operated as a powerful form of political economy during this period. -- Back cover.