american literature

Evaluates hundreds of books for children and teens that explore the Native American traditions and culture that were published from the early 1900s through 2004.

Examines the history and common themes of Hispanic American literature and provides brief biographies of significant authors, such as Rudolfo Anaya, Oscar Hijuelos, and Cristina Garc?a, as well as analyses of their works.

Provides an overview of thirteen American critical schools and movements from the early 1930s to the mid-1980s, discussing each school or movement's history, main figures and texts, key theories, and links with other movements.

Analyzes the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance, and music of the Middle Passage, the transatlantic journey of African slaves.

Collection of twenty-eight critical and biographical essays on African-American writers, ranging from slave narrators to contemporary feminist authors.

An anthology of writings by Asian American women.

Forty-seven African-American women provide their personal stories of mother-daughter relationships in poetry, essay, and personal narrative.

The two stories by Henry James in this volume show him in his characteristic personal manner of tale-telling, but to entirely different effect, the one leading to tragedy, the other to subtle and delicate comedy. The Turn of the Screw is set in an English country house, with the characters being two tragic children, two grown-ups, and two ghosts. The Aspern Papers has its scene in Venice, with two derelict American ladies and their very alert fellow countryman with "the literary heart" who wants to get hold of Jasper Aspern's relics, are perfectly conceived to suit the purposes of the story and to present the other character--the old palace itself!.

Examines the relationship between American history and literature between 1870 and 1920, presenting alphabetized articles on topics such as addiction, the Little Big Horn, and capital punishment. This volume covers A-G.