American Literature

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The aesthetics and politics of the crowd in American literature by Mary Esteve. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge
                   University Press, 2003.

The African American male, writing and difference a polycentric approach to African American literature, criticism, and
                   history by W. Lawrence Hogue. Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003.

The American century: varieties of culture in modern times by Norman F. Cantor. New York, NY:
                   Harper Collins Publishers, 1997. Call #: CB425 .C28 1997

The American counterfeit authenticity and identity in American literature and culture by Mary McAleer Balkun. Tuscaloosa:
                   University of Alabama Press, c2006.

American literature and culture in an age of Cold War a critical reassessment edited by Steven Belletto and Daniel
                  Grausam. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, c2012

Betrayal and other acts of subversion feminism, sexual politics, Asian American women’s literature by Leslie Bow.
                   Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, c2001.

Black Books Galore! guide to great African American children’s books about girls by Donna Rand. New York: John Wiley,
                   c2001. Call #: REF Z1361.N39 R336 2001

A circle of nations : voices and visions of American Indians by North American Native writers & photographers; foreword
                   by Leslie Marmon Silko; introduction by Michael Dorris; edited by John Gattuso. Hillsboro, OR: Beyond Words
                   Pub., c1993. Call #: E98.S7 C57 1993

The concise Oxford companion to African American literature edited by William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, Trudier
                   Harris. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Consumerism and American girls’ literature, 1860-1940 by Peter Stoneley. Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge
                   University Press, 2003.

The empire abroad and the empire at home African American literature and the era of overseas expansionby John Cullen
                  Gruesser. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012.

Encyclopedia of African-American writing : five centuries of contribution : trials & triumphs of writers, poets, publications
                   and organizations edited by by Shari Dorantes Hatch. Amenia, N.Y : Grey House Pub, 2009.
                   Call #: REF PS153.N5 A3444 2009

The Frontier experience and the American dream essays on American literature edited by David Mogen, Mark Busby, and
                   Paul Bryant. College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©1989.

Imagining each other Blacks and Jews in contemporary American literature by Ethan Goffman. Albany: State University of
                   New York Press, 2000. (Baltimore, MD: Project MUSE, 2012).

The importance of feeling English American literature and the British diaspora, 1750-1850 by Leonard Tennenhouse.
                  Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, c2007.

Israel through the Jewish-American imagination a survey of Jewish-American literature on Israel, 1928-1995 by Andrew
                   Furman. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1997.

Jack London : an American original by Rebecca Stefoff. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2002.
                   Call #: PS3523.O46 Z897 2002

Literature at the barricades the American writer in the 1930s edited by Ralph F. Bogardus and Fred Hobson. Tuscaloosa,
                   AL: University of Alabama Press, c1982.

N. Scott Momaday’s Native American ideology in House made of dawn (1968) stylolinguistic analyses of defamliarization
                   in contemporary American Indian by Guillermo Bartelt. Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.

Nationalism, Marxism, and African American literature between the wars a new Pandora’s box by Anthony Dawahare.
                   Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2003.

The poetics and politics of the American gothic gender and slavery in nineteenth-century American literature by
                   Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2010.

The origins of African American literature, 1680-1865 by Dickson D. Bruce. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia,
                   2001.

Reference guide to American literature, introduction by Lewis Leary et al; editor, Jim. Kamp. Detroit : St. James Press,
                   c1994. Call #: REF PS129 .R44 1994

Separate spheres no more gender convergence in American literature, 1830-1930 edited by Monika M. Elbert.
                  Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, ©2000.

Our sisters’ keepers nineteenth-century benevolence literature by American women edited by Jill Bergman and Debra
                  Bernardi. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c2005.

The poetics of national and racial identity in nineteenth-century American literature by John D. Kerkering. Cambridge,
                  U.K.; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

The Schomburg Center Guide to black literature : from the eighteenth century to the present by edited by Roger M.
                  Valade III with Denise Kasinec. Detroit : Gale Research, c1996. Call #: REF Z1039.B56 V36 1996

Sublime enjoyment on the perverse motive in American literature by Dennis A. Foster. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge
                  University Press, 1997.

Ulysses in Black Ralph Ellison, classicism, and African American literature by Patrice D. Rankine. Madison, WI: University
                  of Wisconsin Press, c2006.

The woman that I am : the literature and culture of contemporary women of color by edited by D. Soyini Madison.
                  New York : St. Martins, c1994. Call #: PS508.W7 W576 1994

Yours for justice, Ida B. Wells : the daring life of crusading journalist by Philip Dray. Atlanta, GA: Peachtree Publishers,
                  c2008. Call #: E185.97.W55 D73 2008