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  • International Adoption in North American Literature and Culture

    Transnational, Transracial and Transcultural Narratives

    Edited by Mark Shackleton ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is about transnational and transracial adoption in North American culture. It asks: to what extent does the process of international adoption reflect imperious inequalities around the world; or can international adoption and the personal experiences of international adoptees today be seen more positively as what has been called the richness of “adoptive being”? The areas covered include ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison

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    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is one of the most widely studied of contemporary American authors. Her novels, particularly Beloved, have had a dramatic impact on the American canon and attracted considerable critical commentary. This 2007 Companion introduces and examines her oeuvre as a whole, the first evaluation to include not only her famous novels, but also her other literary works (short ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction

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  • Neobaroque in the Americas

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    by Monika Kaup ...
    Series series New World Studies
    In a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of modern and postmodern literature, film, art, and visual culture, Monika Kaup examines the twentieth century's recovery of the baroque within a hemispheric framework embracing North America, Latin America, and U.S. Latino/a culture. As "neobaroque" comes to the forefront of New World studies, attention to transcultural dynamics is overturning the ... Read more

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  • Unvarnishing Reality

    Subversive Russian and American Cold War Satire

    by Derek C. Maus ...
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  • Susan Glaspell in Context

    American Theater, Culture, and Politics, 1915-48

    by J. Ellen Gainor ...
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  • Upward Mobility and the Common Good

    Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State

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  • The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction after 1945

    Edited by John N. Duvall ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Each generation revises literary history and this is nowhere more evident than in the post-Second World War period. This 2011 Companion offers a comprehensive, authoritative and accessible overview of the diversity of American fiction since the Second World War. Essays by nineteen distinguished scholars provide critical insights into the significant genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity ... Read more

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    by Maggie McKinley ...
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    The Literature of Loss

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  • The Captive's Position

    Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England

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    Why do narratives of Indian captivity emerge in New England between 1682 and 1707 and why are these texts, so centrally concerned with women's experience, supported and even written by a powerful group of Puritan ministers? In The Captive's Position, Teresa Toulouse argues for a new interpretation of the captivity narrative—one that takes into account the profound shifts in political and social ... Read more

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