Writing and America -

Writing and America

Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
1996
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-582-21417-0 (ISBN)
52,30 inkl. MwSt
This text surveys the writing genres that have contributed to the American notions of America. Essays from scholars from both sides of the Atlantic chart the range of responses to American nationhood, from colonial times to the present, and include dissenting responses from minority communities.
Crosscurrents is a new series designed to meet the challenge of interdisciplinary developments by drawing upon the discourses of history, politics, race and gender in the study of English studies. Subjects range from those which are well established within the prevailing structure of English Studies to new and unusual areas which have emerged directly out of innovative interdisciplinary work.

Writing in America surveys the writing genres that have contributed to the American notions of America . Essays from scholars from both side of the Atlantic chart the range of responses to American nationhood from colonial times to the present and include dissenting responses from communities such as native American, black and feminist writers. Case studies from writers such as James Fenimore Cooper and William Carlos Williams provide a framework for discussions on topics such as colonial notions of America as the promised land, the discourses of nationhood in the republic, the sense of nationhood in American historiography, and the formation of the American Canon. Draws upon extracts from the American Bills of Rights and the Constitution as examples of different types of writing.

Gavin Cologne-Brookes is Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Studies at Bath Spa University, UK. Neil Sammells is Professor of English and Irish Literature at Bath Spa University, UK. David Timms is Profesor of English at Bath Spa University, UK.

1. Introduction. Writing Politics.
2. The Role of the Constitution in the American Identity.
3. Writing out of Communism. Writing and Gender.
4. Women and Humour in America.
5. The Western American Masculinity. Writing Race.
6. The Native American in American Writng.
7. The Slave Narrative in Afro-American Writing. Writing History.
8. Discourse and Culture.
9. 'James, Hawthorne and the Civil War'. Writing Place.
10. Revisioning the American Landscape: from Utopia to Eco-critique.
11. William Carlos Williams and the Reconstruction of America.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 29.7.1996
Reihe/Serie Crosscurrents
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 215 x 139 mm
Gewicht 898 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-582-21417-3 / 0582214173
ISBN-13 978-0-582-21417-0 / 9780582214170
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