"What then is the American, this new man?" This question is explored here through the lives and writings of a sequence of imaginative authors each…

"What then is the American, this new man?" This question is explored here through the lives and writings of a sequence of imaginative authors each…

This work expands the scope of Morrison’s project to examine the ways and means of memory in the preservation of belief systems passed down from…

Looking at texts including Jean Toomer’s Cane, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, James Baldwin’s Another Country, and Beat poetry by Bob Kaufmann, in this original study, Parham…

This volume explores the confluences between two types of literature in contemporary America: the novel and the epic. It analyses the tradition of the epic…

This study analyzes the relationship between race and genre in four of Toni Morrison’s novels: The Bluest Eye, Tar Baby, Jazz, and Beloved. Heinert argues…

American Fiction of the 1990s: Reflections of History and Culture brings together essays from international experts to examine one of the most vital andenergized decades…

Enterprising Youth examines the agenda behind the shaping of nineteenth-century children’s perceptions and world views and the transmission of civic duties and social values to…

As Canada came to terms with its role as an independent nation following Confederation in 1867, there was a call for a literary voice to…

The Internet has had a huge impact on channels of communication and information, reaching across time and space to connect the world through globalisation. In…