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Savage Horrors
The Intrinsic Raciality of the American Gothic
While the white American Gothic novel must be understood as a highly racialized and structural anti-Black text, Black authors have creatively deconstructed the Gothic since the 18th century.
Subjects of Substance
Recent American Literature and the Materiality of Mind
Subjects of Substance reveals how the materiality of mind has shaped the works of authors like Don DeLillo, Siri Hustvedt, and David Foster Wallace.
Creating Realities
Business as a Motif in American Fiction, 1865–1929
Erhan Simsek explores the motif of business and its aesthetic functions in American realism, naturalism, and modernism.
An Organon of Life Knowledge
Genres and Functions of the Short Story in North America
The short story as a tool for acquiring knowledge of and about life? This study offers a fresh take on the the genre and explores how it constructs and circulates `life knowledge'.
Fugitive Borders
Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Century
»Community« not »nation« – Nele Sawallisch argues that black autobiographical writing in 19th-century Canada functions as a form of cross-border textual community-building.
Christa Buschendorf
(ed.)
Power Relations in Black Lives
Reading African American Literature and Culture with Bourdieu and Elias
The contributions of this volume offer new readings of Black literature and culture by applying key concepts of relational sociology by Bourdieu and Elias.
Melting Pots & Mosaics: Children of Immigrants in US-American Literature
This work provides an extensive, comparative discussion of US-American literature about children of immigrants from different ethnic groups and different historical contexts.
Wires That Bind
Nation, Region, and Technology in the Southwestern United States, 1854-1920
Telegraphy and railroads bound the Southwest to the United States in the nineteenth century. They forever redrew lines of race, culture and influence.
New York Hotel Experience
Cultural and Societal Impacts of an American Invention
In five case studies this book presents the hotel experience of the white upper class, literati, artists, African Americans and Jewish Americans in NYC.
Poets of Protest
Mythological Resignification in American Antebellum and German Vormärz Literature
Narratological readings of Hawthorne, Gutzkow, Brown, and Heine reveal the literary democratization of mythologies.