American Literature – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 7

Kiron Ward,
Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction

Taking as key examples work by Don DeLillo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Roberto Bolaño, and Karen Tei Yamashita, this book looks at engagements with encyclopaedic thought and practice in contemporary fiction. Ch…

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Mario Vargas Llosa, Rubén Gallo,
Conversation at Princeton

A series of conversations held at Princeton University between the Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa and Rubén Gallo.Princeton University, 2015. For one semester, Mario Vargas Llosa taught a course on lit…

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S S van Dine
The Bishop Murder Case

In one of the most well-known classic American murder mysteries, amateur detective Philo Vance must solve a puzzle series of crimes based on nursery rhymes"The perfect sleuth for Jazz Age New York&qu…

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Mary I Unger
Reading the Renaissance

From 1932 to 1953, during the Black Chicago Renaissance, numerous literary events were held within and for the city's Black community. In book clubs, public forums, print reviews, little magazines, local …

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Pamela Carter Joern
At the Corner of Past and Future

With keen observation and deep reflection, Pamela Carter Joern probes her life. No topic is too small or too sacred, from gutting chickens to GaudÍ's cathedral. Through a range of experiences-growing up i…

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Élika Ortega
Binding Media

Far from causing the "death of the book," the publishing industry's adoption of digital technologies has generated a multitude of new works that push the boundaries of literature and its present…

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Carlos F Grigsby
Rediscovering Rubén Darío Through Translation

"How can one of the most important writers of a major world language be almost entirely unknown in the English-speaking world? How is it that other writers of Spanish (e.g., Lorca or Garcâia Mâarquez…

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Randall Fuller
Bright Circle

Bright Circle tells a little-known story of five women who contributed to the literary and philosophical movement known as transcendentalism and, in the process, inaugurated what became the feminist movem…

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Molly Farrell
New World Calculation

Molly Farrell tells the story of colonial America as a testing ground for new ways of conceptualizing numbers, uncovering overlooked forms of numerical thinking to argue that colonialism and the rise of r…

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Viet Thanh Nguyen
To Save and to Destroy

The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer (now an HBO series) comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive politica…

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Scarlet Ibis James
Scarlet Birthright

Scarlet Birthright: What They Left BehindA Father's Choice + A Daughter's Fate�� Winner of 2025 NYC Big Book Award: Multicultural Fiction �� First Place, 2025 International Firebird Book Awards: Multicult…

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Salam Darwazah Mir
Transnational Literature of Resistance

"Examines resistance literatures from Guyana - a British exploitation colony - and Palestine - a settler-colony - at a specific historical moment, by contesting the provinciality and Eurocentric focu…

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Black Punk Now

"Black Punk Now is an anthology of contemporary nonfiction, fiction, illustrations, and comics that collectively describe punk today and give punks-especially the Black ones-a wider frame of referenc…

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Transkulturationen des Pikaresken in den romanischsprachigen Literaturen Afrikas und Lateinamerikas

Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift. Beihefte - Band 98

Pikareskes Erzählen hat offensichtlich Konjunktur in der literarischen (Post)Moderne Lateinamerikas und Afrikas. Die sozialen und ökonomischen Dynamiken von Urbanisierung, Modernisierung und Globalisierun…

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Manuel Muñoz
Zigzagger

Grounded in California's Central Valley, Muñoz's breakthrough collection explores the constant struggle of characters against their physical and personal surroundings.

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Manuel Muñoz
The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue

Lauded for its empathetic portrayals of communities often ignored, Muñoz's second story collection won a Whiting Award and an O. Henry Award. A new foreword by Cherríe Moraga gives testament to Muñoz's st…

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Andrew H Plaks
The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel

A reinterpretation of some of the great works of Chinese fiction of the late Ming dynastyIn this book, Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the "Four Masterworks of t…

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Andrew H Plaks
The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel

A reinterpretation of some of the great works of Chinese fiction of the late Ming dynastyIn this book, Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the "Four Masterworks of t…

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Yitzhak Lewis
Games of Inheritance

This book demonstrates the key relevance of Jewish literary and intellectual traditions for understanding Jorge Luis Borges' views on authorship and literary tradition. Yitzhak Lewis explores central them…

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Kenneth C Davis
The World in Books

A bestselling historian takes readers on an intellectual and cultural adventure, offering a carefully curated guide to great, short nonfiction works by some of the world's most influential writers---from …

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