The Cambridge Companion To Race And American Literature

A comprehensive study of how American racial history and culture have shaped, and have been shaped by, American literature.

This volume offers a rigorous yet accessible overview of the key questions and intersectional approaches pertaining to American literature and the body. The chapters have been written in an accessible style, making them useful for undergraduates as well as for more experienced researchers.

This Companion surveys Asian American literature from the nineteenth century to the present day.

This book provides a new map of American literature in the global era, analyzing the multiple meanings of transnationalism.

For more than two hundred years, Jews have played important roles in the development of American literature. The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature addresses a wide array of themes and approaches to the distinct yet multifaceted body of Jewish American literature. Essays examine writing from the 1700s to major contemporary writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. Topics covered include literary history, immigration and acculturation, Yiddish and Hebrew literature, popular culture, women writers, literary theory and poetics, multilingualism, the Holocaust, and contemporary fiction. This collection of specially commissioned essays by leading figures discusses Jewish American literature in relation to ethnicity, religion, politics, race, gender, ideology, history, and ethics, and places it in the contexts of both Jewish and American writing. With its chronology and guides to further reading, this volume will prove valuable to scholars and students alike.

This book brings together leading scholars to examine slavery in American literature from the eighteenth century to the present day.

Offers a timely introduction to the intersection of radical politics and American literature in the period of the Great Depression.

This Companion presents new essays covering the one hundred and fifty year history of the African American novel.