Despite recent debates, the post-colonial literary canon remains comprised of privileged national and regional texts. The English-language literatures of Africa, India, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean clearly emerged from an earlier model of 'Commonwealth literature'. Post-Colonial Literatures examines the development of this body of writing, and is the first such study to expand the paradigm to accommodate the literatures of the colonised peoples of North America. The authors engage with the major debates within existing post-colonial studies, addressing...
Despite recent debates, the post-colonial literary canon remains comprised of privileged national and regional texts. The English-language literatures...
This book offers an exploration of women's writing that focuses on the close links between literary texts and the theories that construct those texts as 'women's writing'. Each chapter deals with one of the issues or concepts that have engaged both authors and theorists - rhetoric, work, consciousness, nature, class and race. A detailed analysis shows how each concept has been used by feminists to construct a specific text in such a way that it is received as a work of 'women's writing', particularly in American literature.Using canonical texts, from Charlotte Perkins Gilman through Kate...
This book offers an exploration of women's writing that focuses on the close links between literary texts and the theories that construct those texts ...
This collection of original essays discusses the implications of the new media for the creation, delivery and assessment of English studies. Strategies by which digital technologies can serve professional, scholarly and pedagogical needs in a completely new way are explored in the context of the role and mission of humanities in the electronic age.
This collection of original essays discusses the implications of the new media for the creation, delivery and assessment of English studies. Strategie...
Exceptionalism, the notion that Americans have a distinct and special destiny different from that of other nations, permeates every period of American history. It is the single most powerful force in forming the American identity.
In American Exceptionalism Deborah L. Madsen traces this powerful theory from its origins in Puritan and Revolutionary-era writing to its latest manifestations in the Vietnam conflict and in current films and fiction.
The growth of the idea is complex. In the 1600s the Massachusetts Bay colonists believed that God had intervened to create in America a...
Exceptionalism, the notion that Americans have a distinct and special destiny different from that of other nations, permeates every period of Ameri...
Allegory in America surveys the history of American allegorical writing from the Puritans through the period of American romanticism to postmodernism. In a series of theoretical chapters the cultural function of allegory is discussed in relation to the mythology of American exceptionalism. Each theoretical chapter is followed by a chapter that analyzes a specific text or group of texts. Allegorical indeterminacy is seen to produce a literary tradition that both represents and subverts the ideals of American orthodoxy.
Allegory in America surveys the history of American allegorical writing from the Puritans through the period of American romanticism to postmodernism....
Novelist, autobiographer, poet, dramatist, essayist and cultural critic of rare and radical boldness, Gerald Vizenor has long stood at the very forefront of Native writing. This study of Vizenors writing includes themes of the socially under-privileged with innovative Native American traditions. His satirical fiction is similar to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip Roth, and is noted for humor and play with language. Vizenor's achievements cannot be easily summarized; rather, this book gives due evidence of the complexity of his work and the diverse critical responses to it.
Novelist, autobiographer, poet, dramatist, essayist and cultural critic of rare and radical boldness, Gerald Vizenor has long stood at the very forefr...
The first book devoted exclusively to the poetry and literary aesthetics of one of Native America's most accomplished writers, this collection of essays brings together detailed critical analyses of single texts and individual poetry collections from diverse theoretical perspectives, along with comparative discussions of Vizenor's related works. Contributors discuss Vizenor's philosophy of poetic expression, his innovations in diverse poetic genres, and the dynamic interrelationships between Vizenor's poetry and his prose writings.
Throughout his poetic career Vizenor has...
The first book devoted exclusively to the poetry and literary aesthetics of one of Native America's most accomplished writers, this collection ...
