The City in American Literature and Culture

The City in American Literature and Culture
Title The City in American Literature and Culture PDF eBook
Author Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher
Pages 417
Release 2021-08-05
Genre History
ISBN 1108841961

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This book examines what literature and film reveal about the urban USA. Subjects include culture, class, race, crime, and disaster.

At Home in the City

At Home in the City
Title At Home in the City PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth Klimasmith
Publisher UPNE
Pages 318
Release 2005
Genre History
ISBN 9781584654971

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A lucidly written analysis of urban literature and evolving residential architecture.

Urban Underworlds

Urban Underworlds
Title Urban Underworlds PDF eBook
Author Thomas Heise
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Pages 308
Release 2011
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0813547849

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Urban Underworlds is an exploration of city spaces, pathologized identities, lurid fears, and American literature. Surveying one hundred years of history, and fusing sociology, urban planning, and criminology with literary and cultural studies, it chronicles how and why marginalized populations-immigrant Americans in the Lower East Side, gays and lesbians in Greenwich Village and downtown Los Angeles, the black underclass in Harlem and Chicago, and the new urban poor dispersed across American cities-have been selectively targeted as "urban underworlds" and their neighborhoods.

Hospitality in American Literature and Culture

Hospitality in American Literature and Culture
Title Hospitality in American Literature and Culture PDF eBook
Author Ana Maria Manzanas Calvo
Publisher Routledge
Pages 338
Release 2016-11-03
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1317236483

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This volume examines hospitality in American immigrant literature and culture, situating this ancient virtue at the crossroads of space and border theory, and exploring the relationship among the intersecting themes of migration, citizenship, identity formation, and spatiality. Assessing the conditions, duration, and shifting roles of hosts and guests in the United States, the book concentrates on the ways the US administers protocols of belonging and non-belonging, and distinguishes between those who can feel at home from those who will always be outside the body politic, even if they were the original "hosts." The volume opens with a genealogy of hospitality through a focus on its sites, from its origins in the Bible, to its national and post-national renditions in contemporary American literature and culture. The authors explore recent representations of immigrant spatiality, from the space of the body in Spielberg’s The Terminal and Frears’s Dirty Pretty Things, to the different ways in which immigrants are incorporated into the United States in Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer, Karen T. Yamashita’s I Hotel, Junot Díaz’s "Invierno," and Ernesto Quiñonez’s Chango’s Fire, concluding with the spectrality of the immigrant body in George Saunders’ "The Semplica Girl Diaries." Timely and imperative in light of the legacies of colonialism, and the realities of modern-day globalization, this book will be of value to specialists in post-colonialism; American Studies; immigration, diaspora, and border studies; and critical race and gender studies for its innovative approaches to media and literary texts.

The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Environment

The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Environment
Title The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Environment PDF eBook
Author Sarah Ensor
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 305
Release 2022-03-17
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1108841902

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Offers an overview of American environmental literature across genres and time periods, introducing readers to a range of ecocritical methodologies.

American Literature 1607-1885: The development of American thought

American Literature 1607-1885: The development of American thought
Title American Literature 1607-1885: The development of American thought PDF eBook
Author Charles Francis Richardson
Publisher
Pages 568
Release 1886
Genre American literature
ISBN

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American Literature, 1607-1885

American Literature, 1607-1885
Title American Literature, 1607-1885 PDF eBook
Author Charles Francis Richardson
Publisher
Pages 610
Release 1886
Genre American literature
ISBN

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