Writing and America

ISBN-13: 9780582214170 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 320 str.

Gavin Cologne-Brooks; David Timms; Neil Sammells

Opis

This text surveys the writing genres that have contributed to the American notions of America. Essays from scholars from both sides of the Atlantic chart the range of responses to American nationhood, from colonial times to the present, and include dissenting responses from minority communities.

Spis treści

1. Introduction. Writing Politics 2. The Role of the Constitution in the American Identity 3. Writing out of Communism. Writing and Gender 4. Women and Humour in America 5. The Western American Masculinity. Writing Race 6. The Native American in American Writng 7. The Slave Narrative in Afro-American Writing. Writing History 8. Discourse and Culture 9. 'James, Hawthorne and the Civil War'. Writing Place 10. Revisioning the American Landscape: from Utopia to Eco-critique 11. William Carlos Williams and the Reconstruction of America

O autorze

Gavin Cologne-Brookes is Senior Lecturer inEnglish and Creative Studies at Bath Spa University, UK. Neil Sammells is Professor of English and Irish Literature at Bath Spa University, UK. David Timms is Profesor of English at Bath Spa University, UK.