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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.
Imagining Southern Spaces
Author | : Deniz Bozkurt-Pekar |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2021-02-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783110692600 |
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Identifying the antebellum era in the United States as a transitional setting, Imagining Southern Spaces ́investigates spatialization processes about the South during a time when intensifying debates over the abolition of slavery led to a heightened period of (re)spatialization in the region. Taking the question of abolition as a major factor that shaped how different actors responded to these processes, this book studies spatial imaginations in a selection of abolitionist and proslavery literature of the era. Through this diversity of imaginations, the book points to a multitude of Souths in various economic, political, and cultural entanglements in the American Hemisphere and the Circumatlantic. Thus, it challenges monolithic and provincial representations of the South as a provincial region distinct from the rest of the country.
Between Empire and Republic
Author | : Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2022-01-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781793635532 |
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In 1837, a small group of rebels proclaimed the short-lived Republic of Canada. Between then and the Act of Confederation of 1867, colonial Canadians tried to imagine the future of their communities in North America. The choice between monarchy and republicanism shaped both colonial self-images and images of the United States; it also drove the political deliberations that eventually united the colonies of British North America into a self-governing Dominion under the British Crown. Between Empire and Republic is a thematic exploration of the political discourse embedded in the literary output of the period. Colonial authors Susanna Moodie, Th. Ch. Haliburton, and John Richardson enjoyed transatlantic popularity and explained colonial realities to their British, Canadian, and American readership. Collectively, their writings serve as the lens into colonial Canadian perceptions of American and British political ideas and institutions. Between Empire and Republic discusses North America as a literary contact zone where British principles of constitutional monarchy competed with American ideas of republicanism and democratic self-government. The author argues that political ideas in pre-Confederation Canada filtered into the literary works of the time, creating two settler-colonial communities whose recognizable cultural characteristics echoed public attitudes towards the political projects underpinning them.
Imagination and Healing
Author | : Anees A. Sheikh |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2019-03-28 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9781351853170 |
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The volume explores in depth the vast healing potential of a fundamental human gift. In addition to providing a historical perspective of the importance accorded to imagination in the disease and healing processes, the book furnishes theoretical, empirical, and clinical evidence of the efficacy of imagery in the healing of a wide variety of health problems including stress, pain, cancer, depression, phobias, skin disorders, and sexual dysfunctions.
The Plantation in the Postslavery Imagination
Author | : Elizabeth Christine Russ |
Publsiher | : Imagining the Americas |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780195377156 |
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The author examines the persistent presence of the plantation in trans-American literatures of the last century. She conceives the plantation to be not primarily a physical location, but rather an ideological and psychological trope through which intersecting histories of the New World are told and retold.
Modern Poetics and Hemispheric American Cultural Studies
Author | : J. Read |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2009-07-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780230623347 |
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As the world becomes increasingly globalized, the integration of cultures within nations has become more and more relevant. Read takes a poetic approach to the concept of cultural conflict within nations and adds a new perspective that has rarely been seen in debate.
An Eclectic Bestiary
Author | : Birgit Spengler,Babette B. Tischleder |
Publsiher | : transcript Verlag |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2019-06-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9783839445662 |
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The essays, poetry, and visual art collected here consider the more-than-human cultures of our multispecies world. At a time when humanity's impact has put our planet's ecosystems into great jeopardy, the book explores literary, sonic, and visual imaginaries that feature encounters between and across a variety of living creatures: beetles and bisons, people and pigeons, trees and spiderwebs, vegetables and violets, orchards and octopi, vampires and tricksters. Offering a wide range of critical and creative contributions to Human Animal Studies, Critical Plant Studies and the Nonhuman Turn, the volume seeks to foster new ways of imagining a more »response-able« coexistence on our shared Earth.
Handbook of the American Novel of the Nineteenth Century
Author | : Christine Gerhardt |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 2018-06-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783110480917 |
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This handbook offers students and researchers a compact introduction to the nineteenth-century American novel in the light of current debates, theoretical concepts, and critical methodologies. The volume turns to the nineteenth century as a formative era in American literary history, a time that saw both the rise of the novel as a genre, and the emergence of an independent, confident American culture. A broad range of concise essays by European and American scholars demonstrates how some of America‘s most well-known and influential novels responded to and participated in the radical transformations that characterized American culture between the early republic and the age of imperial expansion. Part I consists of 7 systematic essays on key historical and critical frameworks ― including debates aboutrace and citizenship, transnationalism, environmentalism and print culture, as well as sentimentalism, romance and the gothic, realism and naturalism. Part II provides 22 essays on individual novels, each combining an introduction to relevant cultural contexts with a fresh close reading and the discussion of critical perspectives shaped by literary and cultural theory.