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  • Raising the Dead

    Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity

    by Sharon Patricia Holland, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    Raising the Dead is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary exploration of death’s relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Sharon Patricia Holland contends that black subjectivity in particular is connected intimately to death. For Holland, travelling through “the space of death” gives us, as cultural readers, a nuanced and appropriate metaphor for understanding ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Mariners, Renegades and Castaways

    The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In

    by C. L. R. James ...
    A new edition of a major work of literary and cultural criticism restores C. L. R. James’s reflections about Moby Dick and political persecution.Political theorist and cultural critic, novelist, and cricket enthusiast, C. L. R. James (1901–89) was a brilliant polymath who was described by Edward Said as “a centrally important twentieth-century figure.” Through such landmark works as The Black ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Assassination Bureau, Ltd.

    by Jack London, Robert L. Fish ...
    Series series Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin
    London’s suspense thriller focuses on the fine distinction between state- justified murder and criminal violence in the Assassination Bureau—an organization whose mandate is to rid the state of all its enemies.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Deep River

    Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought

    by Paul Allen Anderson, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    “The American Negro,” Arthur Schomburg wrote in 1925, “must remake his past in order to make his future.” Many Harlem Renaissance figures agreed that reframing the black folk inheritance could play a major role in imagining a new future of racial equality and artistic freedom. In Deep River Paul Allen Anderson focuses on the role of African American folk music in the Renaissance aesthetic and in ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The New American Exceptionalism

    by Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series Critical American Studies
    For a half century following the end of World War II, the seemingly permanent cold war provided the United States with an organizing logic that governed nearly every aspect of American society and culture, giving rise to an unwavering belief in the nation's exceptionalism in global affairs and world history. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, this cold war paradigm was replaced by a series of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Forgotten Readers

    Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies

    by Elizabeth McHenry, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    Over the past decade the popularity of black writers including E. Lynn Harris and Terry McMillan has been hailed as an indication that an active African American reading public has come into being. Yet this is not a new trend; there is a vibrant history of African American literacy, literary associations, and book clubs. Forgotten Readers reveals that neglected past, looking at the reading ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Crossing the Line

    Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture

    by Gayle Wald, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    As W. E. B. DuBois famously prophesied in The Souls of Black Folk, the fiction of the color line has been of urgent concern in defining a certain twentieth-century U.S. racial “order.” Yet the very arbitrariness of this line also gives rise to opportunities for racial “passing,” a practice through which subjects appropriate the terms of racial discourse. To erode race’s authority, Gayle Wald ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Negative Liberties

    Morrison, Pynchon, and the Problem of Liberal Ideology

    by Cyrus R. K. Patell, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    Since the nineteenth century, ideas centered on the individual, on Emersonian self-reliance, and on the right of the individual to the pursuit of happiness have had a tremendous presence in the United States—and even more so after the Reagan era. But has this presence been for the good of all? In Negative Liberties Cyrus R. K. Patell revises important ideas in the debate about individualism and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Reconstituting the American Renaissance

    Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation

    by Jay Grossman, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    Challenging the standard periodization of American literary history, Reconstituting the American Renaissance reinterprets the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman and the relationship of these two authors to each other. Jay Grossman argues that issues of political representation—involving vexed questions of who shall speak and for whom—lie at the heart of American political and literary ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Translating Empire

    Jose Marti, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American Modernities

    by Laura Lomas, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    In Translating Empire, Laura Lomas uncovers how late nineteenth-century Latino migrant writers developed a prescient critique of U.S. imperialism, one that prefigures many of the concerns about empire, race, and postcolonial subjectivity animating American studies today. During the 1880s and early 1890s, the Cuban journalist, poet, and revolutionary José Martí and other Latino migrants living in ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Assimilating Asians

    Gendered Strategies of Authorship in Asian America

    by Donald E. Pease, Patricia P. Chu ...
    Series series New Americanists
    One of the central tasks of Asian American literature, argues Patricia P. Chu, has been to construct Asian American identities in the face of existing, and often contradictory, ideas about what it means to be an American. Chu examines the model of the Anglo-American bildungsroman and shows how Asian American writers have adapted it to express their troubled and unstable position in the United ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park

    Activism, Culture, and American Studies

    by Paul Lauter, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    Paul Lauter, an icon of American Studies who has been a primary agent in its transformation and its chief ambassador abroad, offers a wide-ranging collection of essays that demonstrate and reflect on this important and often highly politicized discipline. While American Studies was formerly seen as a wholly subsidiary academic program that loosely combined the study of American history, literature ... Read more

    $25.19 USD