Writing and America
Crosscurrents is a new series which has grown directly out of exciting developments in higher education. The move towards modular courses amongst students and the evolution of interdisciplinary work at all levels of intellectual inquiry have expanded the horizons of the old subject areas. This series is aimed to show how English Studies is meeting the challenge of these developments by drawing upon the discourses of history, politics, race and gender studies in particular. Subjects range from those which are well established within the prevailing structure of English Studies to new and unusual areas which have emerged directly out of innovative interdisciplinary work. Writing and America provides a volume of interdisciplinary essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 310 pages ; 23 cm.
9780582214163, 9780582214170, 0582214165, 0582214173
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1. Introduction. Writing Politics.2. The Role of the Constitution in the American Identity. 3. Writing out of Communism. Writing and Gender. 4. Women and Humour in America. 5. The Western American Masculinity. Writing Race. 6. The Native American in American Writng. 7. The Slave Narrative in Afro-American Writing. Writing History. 8. Discourse and Culture. 9. 'James, Hawthorne and the Civil War'. Writing Place. 10. Revisioning the American Landscape: from Utopia to Eco-critique. 11. William Carlos Williams and the Reconstruction of America.