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41. The Harlem Renaissance in the American West

    The New Negro's Western Experience

    Edited by Cary D Wintz, Bruce Glasrud

    Series: New Directions in American History

    The Harlem Renaissance, an exciting period in the social and cultural history of the US, has over the past few decades re-established itself as a watershed moment in African American history. However, many of the African American communities outside the urban center of Harlem that participated in...

    Published September 18th 2011 by Routledge
42. Transnationalism and American Serial Fiction

    By Patricia Okker

    Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

    Transnationalism and American Serial Fiction explores the vibrant tradition of serial fiction published in U.S. minority periodicals. Beloved by readers, these serial novels helped sustain the periodicals and communities in which they circulated. With essays on serial fiction published from the...

    Published September 18th 2011 by Routledge
43. From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood

    Children's Literature and the Construction of Canadian Identity

    By Elizabeth Galway

    Series: Children's Literature and Culture

    As Canada came to terms with its role as an independent nation following Confederation in 1867, there was a call for a literary voice to express the needs and desires of a new country. Children’s literature was one of the means through which this new voice found expression. Seen as a tool for both...

    Published September 13th 2011 by Routledge
44. Ernest Hemingway

    Edited by Henry Claridge

    Series: Critical Assessments of Major Writers

    Few twentieth-century American writers have been as influential as Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961). Whilst contemporaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner may be as widely taught and studied as Hemingway, neither had an influence on other writers—or indeed, the cognate arts—as great as...

    Published September 11th 2011 by Routledge
45. Nature, Class, and New Deal Literature

    The Country Poor in the Great Depression

    By Stephen Fender

    Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

    Working through close rhetorical analysis of everything from fiction and journalism to documents and documentaries, this book looks at how popular memory favors the country Depression over the economic crisis in the nation’s cities and factories. Over eighty years after it happened, the Depression...

    Published August 24th 2011 by Routledge
46. Once Upon a Time in a Different World

    Issues and Ideas in African American Children’s Literature

    By Neal A. Lester

    Series: Children's Literature and Culture

    Once Upon a Time in a Different World, a unique addition to the celebrated Children’s Literature and Culture series, seeks to move discussions and treatments of ideas in African America Children’s literature from the margins to the forefront of literary discourse. Looking at a variety of topics,...

    Published August 15th 2011 by Routledge
47. Asian American Fiction, History and Life Writing

    International Encounters

    By Helena Grice

    Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

    The last ten years have witnessed an enormous growth in American interest in Asia and Asian/American history. In particular, a set of key Asian historical moments have recently become the subject of intense American cultural scrutiny, namely China’s Cultural Revolution and its aftermath; the Korean...

    Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge
48. Food and Culture in Contemporary American Fiction

    By Lorna Piatti-Farnell

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

    Establishing an interdisciplinary connection between Food Studies and American literary scholarship, Piatti-Farnell investigates the significances of food and eating in American fiction, from 1980 to the present day. She argues that culturally-coded representations of the culinary illuminate...

    Published July 12th 2011 by Routledge
49. Toni Morrison

    By Pelagia Goulimari

    Series: Routledge Guides to Literature

    Toni Morrison's visionary explorations of freedom and identity, self and community, against the backdrop of African American history have established her as one of the foremost novelists of her time; an artist whose seriousness of purpose and imaginative power have earned her both widespread...

    Published June 21st 2011 by Routledge
50. The Routledge Concise History of Canadian Literature

    By Richard J. Lane

    Series: Routledge Concise Histories of Literature

    The Routledge Concise History of Canadian Literature introduces the fiction, poetry and drama of Canada in its historical, political and cultural contexts. In this clear and structured volume, Richard Lane outlines: the history of Canadian literature from colonial times to the present key...

    Published June 21st 2011 by Routledge