How can art, how can prose and poetry originate in spite of the restraints of manipulation, propaganda, and censorship? This study explores such issues by focusing on the cultural trajectory of Japanese American internment, both during and after World War II. Previously unknown documents as well as interviews with friends and family reveal new aspects of John Okada's (1923-1971) life and writing, providing a comprehensive biographical outline of the author. The book refutes the assumption that Okada's novel No-No Boy was all but shunned when first published in 1957. A close reading as...
How can art, how can prose and poetry originate in spite of the restraints of manipulation, propaganda, and censorship? This study explores such issue...
A Very Serious Thing was first published in 1988. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
"It is a very serious thing to be a funny woman." -Frances Miriam Berry Whitcher
A Very Serious Thing is the first book-length study of a part of American literature that has been consistently neglected by scholars and underrepresented in anthologies--American women's humorous writing. Nancy Walker proposes that the American...
A Very Serious Thing was first published in 1988. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once aga...
This study is a comprehensive scholarly treatment of Norman Mailer's entire oeuvre, including not only his fiction and non-fiction, but also his correspondence, his early journal articles and his interviews. It outlines Mailer's Entwicklungsgeschichte, illuminating the lines of continuity and discontinuity in his literary achievement and shows Mailer's work to be firmly ensconced in the tradition of Modernism and inspired by the Pound-Eliot axis. It argues that Mailer's literary opus is intertwined with his worldview, which, despite its inconsistencies and contradictions,...
This study is a comprehensive scholarly treatment of Norman Mailer's entire oeuvre, including not only his fiction and non-fiction, but also hi...
Die Fotodokumentation 12 Million Black Voices von Richard Wright und Edwin Rosskam und der Gemaldezyklus The Migration of the Negro von Jacob Lawrence befassen sich mit der Great Migration, der afro-amerikanischen Urbanisierungsbewegung Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts. Diese beiden in Deutschland noch wenig bekannten Werke bedienen sich unterschiedlicher Medien und sind dennoch als Kombinationen von Bild und Text vergleichbar. Sie werden zunachst in ihrem jeweiligen Kontext untersucht dem dokumentarischen Genre der 1930er-Jahre sowie der afro-amerikanischen Kunst nach der...
Die Fotodokumentation 12 Million Black Voices von Richard Wright und Edwin Rosskam und der Gemaldezyklus The Migration of the Negro von ...
