wyszukanych pozycji: 4
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The Vernacular Matters of American Literature
ISBN: 9780230620933 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 189 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Vernacular Matters of American Literature blurs and dissolves existing lines of literary demarcation and responds to the unanswered call to practice a genuinely comparative approach to American Studies. Sieglinde Lemke examines three novels from distinct cultures and times, within their discrete ethnic contexts and with an understanding of their role in the American vernacular literary tradition. From this study of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Ana Castillo's So Far From God, a new model for analyzing American...
Vernacular Matters of American Literature blurs and dissolves existing lines of literary demarcation and responds to the unanswered call to practice a...
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192,30 zł |
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Primitivist Modernism: Black Culture and the Origins of Transatlantic Modernism
ISBN: 9780195104035 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book explores a rich cultural hybridity at the heart of transatlantic modernism. Focusing on cubism, jazz, and Josephine Baker's performance in the Danse Sauvage, Sieglinde Lemke uncovers a crucial history of white and black intercultural exchange, a phenomenon until now greatly obscured by a cloak of whiteness. Considering artists and critics such as Picasso, Alain Locke, Nancy Cunard, and Paul Whiteman, in addition to Baker, Lemke documents a potent cultural dialectic in which black artistic expression fertilized white modernism, just as white art forms helped shape the black...
This book explores a rich cultural hybridity at the heart of transatlantic modernism. Focusing on cubism, jazz, and Josephine Baker's performance in t...
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711,61 zł |
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Inequality, Poverty and Precarity in Contemporary American Culture
ISBN: 9781137603418 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book analyzes the discourse generated by pundits, politicians, and artists to examine how poverty and the income gap is framed through specific modes of representation. Set against the dichotomy of the structural narrative of poverty and the opportunity narrative, Lemke's modified concept of precarity reveals new insights into the American situation as well as into the textuality of contemporary demands for equity. Her acute study of a vast range of artistic and journalistic texts brings attention to a mode of representation that is itself precarious, both in the modern and... This book analyzes the discourse generated by pundits, politicians, and artists to examine how poverty and the income gap is framed through specifi... |
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326,93 zł |
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Class Divisions in Serial Television
ISBN: 9781137594488 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book brings the emergent interest in social class and inequality to the field of television studies. The case studies in this book demonstrate how sophisticated narrative techniques coincide with equally complex ways of exposing class divisions in contemporary American life and how the examined shows disrupt the hegemonic order of class.
This book brings the emergent interest in social class and inequality to the field of television studies. The case studies in this book demonstrate ho...
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307,69 zł |