"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…

The western American landscape has always had great significance in American thinking, requiring an unlikely union between frontier mythology and the reality of a fragile…

Native American Literature underwent a Renaissance around 1968, and the current canon of novels written in the late twentieth century in American English by Native…

Through a reading of periodicals, memoirs, speeches, and fiction from the antebellum period to the Harlem Renaissance, this study re-examines various myths about a U.S.…

The last ten years have witnessed an enormous growth in American interest in Asia and Asian/American history. In particular, a set of key Asian historical…

What is transnationalism and how does it affect American literature?

This book examines nineteenth century contexts of transnationalism, translation and American literature. The discussion of transnationalism…

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…

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…

One of the few available books of criticism on the topic, this monograph presents the fullest account to date of Don DeLillo's writing, situating his…