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Encyclopedia of the Environment in American Literature
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2013; US$ 75.00This encyclopedia introduces readers to American poetry, fiction and nonfiction with a focus on the environment (broadly defined as humanity's natural surroundings), from the discovery of America through the present. The work includes biographical and literary entries on material from early explorers and colonists such as Columbus, Bartolome de... more...
White Supremacy in Children's Literature
Taylor and Francis 2000; US$ 67.95This penetrating study of the white supremacy myth in books for the young adds an important dimension to American intellectual history. The study pinpoints an intersecting adult and child culture: it demonstrates that many children's stories had political, literary, and social contexts that paralleled the way adult books, schools, churches, and government... more...
Race, Citizenship, and Law in American Literature
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 36.00In this broad ranging study, Gregg Crane examines the interaction between civic identity, race and justice in American law and literature. Covering such writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass, this is a remarkably original book, that will revise the relationship between Race and Nationalism in American literature. more...
Reimagining Indians
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 44.99Reimagining Indians investigates a group of Anglo-American writers whose books about Native Americans helped reshape Americans' understanding of Indian peoples at the turn of the twentieth century. Hailing from the Eastern United States, these men and women traveled to the American West and discovered "exotics" in their midst. Drawn to Indian... more...
The Future of Environmental Criticism
Wiley 2009; US$ 115.95Written by one of the world’s leading theorists in ecocriticism, this manifesto provides a critical summary of the ecocritical movement. A critical summary of the emerging discipline of “ecocriticism”. Written by one of the world’s leading theorists in ecocriticism. Traces the history of the ecocritical movement from its... more...
Courting Communities
CRC Press 2006; US$ 65.00Courting Communities focuses on the writing and oratory of nineteenth-century African-American women whose racial uplift projects troubled the boundaries of race, nation and gender. In particular, it reexamines the politics of gender in nationalist movements and black women's creative response within and against both state and insurgent black nationalist... more...
The impact of IT on indigenous peoples
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2003; US$ 199.00This e-book brings together 11 articles from several different continents and cultures, which illustrate how tribal nations are using information technology to explore their culture, document these efforts and share elements of their perspectives with the larger world more...
Reading U.S. Latina Writers
Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 34.00This essential teaching guide focuses on an emerging body of literature by U.S. Latina and Latin American Women writers. It will assist non-specialist educators in syllabus revision, new course design and classroom presentation. The inclusive focus of the book - that is, combining both US Latina and Latin American women writers - is significant because... more...
Gone Is Gone
University of Minnesota Press 2003; US$ 15.00Gone Is Gone addresses an age-old question between couples?who works harder? This long-out-of-print children?s book is based on a charming Bohemian tale recited to Wanda Gág when she was a child, and is now available to enchant audiences of all ages. The tale?s sly peasant humor and conversational style combined with Gág?s expressive black-and-white... more...
Early American Nature Writers
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 125.00Discusses the lives and works of 52 early American nature writers. more...









