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Walt Whitman And New Biographical Criticism, Randall Knoper Dec 2002

Walt Whitman And New Biographical Criticism, Randall Knoper

Randall Knoper

No abstract provided.


Rosebloom And Pure White, Or So It Seemed, Mary Niall Mitchell Aug 2002

Rosebloom And Pure White, Or So It Seemed, Mary Niall Mitchell

Mary Niall Mitchell

No abstract provided.


The Expanding Roles Of Chinese Americans In U.S.-China Relations: Transnational Networks And Trans-Pacific Interactions, Peter Koehn, Xiao-Huang Yin Dec 2001

The Expanding Roles Of Chinese Americans In U.S.-China Relations: Transnational Networks And Trans-Pacific Interactions, Peter Koehn, Xiao-Huang Yin

Xiao-huang Yin

No abstract provided.


Ahead Of Her Time, Claire Potter Oct 2001

Ahead Of Her Time, Claire Potter

Claire Potter

No abstract provided.


"'Rosebloom And Pure White,' Or So It Seemed", Mary Niall Mitchell Aug 2001

"'Rosebloom And Pure White,' Or So It Seemed", Mary Niall Mitchell

Mary Niall Mitchell

No abstract provided.


Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Claire Potter Feb 2001

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Claire Potter

Claire Potter

No abstract provided.


Nation And Reunification, Claire Potter Feb 2000

Nation And Reunification, Claire Potter

Claire Potter

No abstract provided.


Chinese American Literature Since The 1850s, Xiao-Huang Yin Dec 1999

Chinese American Literature Since The 1850s, Xiao-Huang Yin

Xiao-huang Yin

Chinese American Literature since the 1850s traces the origins and development of the extensive and largely neglected body of literature written in English and in Chinese, assessing its themes and style and placing it in a broad social and historical context. This volume, shows how change and continuity in the Chinese American experience are reflected in the writings of immigrants from China and their descendants.


War On Crime: Bandits, G-Men, And The Politics Of Mass Culture, Claire Potter Dec 1997

War On Crime: Bandits, G-Men, And The Politics Of Mass Culture, Claire Potter

Claire Potter

No abstract provided.


An American Generational Autobiography: Collective Identity In Malcolm Cowley's Exile's Return, John Hazlett Dec 1997

An American Generational Autobiography: Collective Identity In Malcolm Cowley's Exile's Return, John Hazlett

John D Hazlett

In the following chapter from Hazlett's book My Generation: Collective Autobiography and Identity Politics, the author argues that Malcolm Cowley's Exile's Return pioneered a new form of autobiographical narrative--the generational autobiography. Cowley's text relies for its underlying ideas of collective identity on generational theory, Marxism, and Emersoniansm.


The Problem Of The Color Line: Segregation, Politics, And Historical Writing, Claire Potter Dec 1997

The Problem Of The Color Line: Segregation, Politics, And Historical Writing, Claire Potter

Claire Potter

No abstract provided.


Intro. To Post-Traumatic Culture, Kirby Farrell Dec 1997

Intro. To Post-Traumatic Culture, Kirby Farrell

kirby farrell

This is the Introduction to my POST-TRAUMATIC CULTURE: INJURY AND INTERPRETATION IN THE 90s. It develops the premise that trauma is psychophysiogical: an injury that is also an interpretation of an injury. Its analyses show the idea of trauma functioning as a tool that all sorts of people use for a range of purposes.


The Role Of The Nossa Senhora Aparecida Festival In Creating Brazilian American Community, Adam Arenson Dec 1997

The Role Of The Nossa Senhora Aparecida Festival In Creating Brazilian American Community, Adam Arenson

Adam Arenson

Once a year, the Brazilians who live in the Boston area come together at St. Anthony Church in Cambridge to celebrate the festival of Nossa Senhora Aparecida (Our Lady who has Appeared), view the statue of the Virgin Mary that has brought miracles to the people of Brazil, and honor to this patroness. The festival, attended by hundreds, is primarily religious but also seems to have important cultural aspects. Is there a Brazilian community? If so, what role does this festival play? The researcher attended the festival in 1997, providing questionnaires in Portuguese and English, taking photographs, and arranging to …


Death-Defying Women, Claire Potter Feb 1997

Death-Defying Women, Claire Potter

Claire Potter

No abstract provided.


Autobiographies By Americans Of Color 1980-1994: An Annotated Bibliography, Rebecca Stuhr Dec 1996

Autobiographies By Americans Of Color 1980-1994: An Annotated Bibliography, Rebecca Stuhr

Rebecca A Stuhr

This book compiles and provides a brief summary of autobiographies published or reissued during the last decades of the 20th century. This is an excellent source for finding personal accounts of growing up just after the end of slavery through the civil rights movement, experiences for Japanese Americans during World War II, the American Indian Movement, and the growing movement for rights for immigrant labor in the United States. Many of these autobiographies were written to provide an account of family history, hardship endured, and accomplishments achieved for the next generation.


Review Of Soulfires: Young Black Men On Love And Violence, Amilcar Shabazz Dec 1996

Review Of Soulfires: Young Black Men On Love And Violence, Amilcar Shabazz

Amilcar Shabazz

A review of a literary and cultural anthology on African American males on love and violence.


American Studies And Studies Of America, Randall Knoper Dec 1996

American Studies And Studies Of America, Randall Knoper

Randall Knoper

No abstract provided.


Book Review: The Black Lodge In White America: "True Reformer" Browne And His Economic Strategy, Lynn Dumenil Oct 1995

Book Review: The Black Lodge In White America: "True Reformer" Browne And His Economic Strategy, Lynn Dumenil

Lynn Dumenil

No abstract provided.


Revising The Klan: Intersections Of Race, Gender, And Class In The 1920s Ku Klux Klan, Lynn Dumenil Dec 1994

Revising The Klan: Intersections Of Race, Gender, And Class In The 1920s Ku Klux Klan, Lynn Dumenil

Lynn Dumenil

No abstract provided.


"I'Ll Go The Limit And Then Some:" Gun Molls, Desire And Danger In The 1930s, Claire B. Potter Dec 1994

"I'Ll Go The Limit And Then Some:" Gun Molls, Desire And Danger In The 1930s, Claire B. Potter

Claire Potter

No abstract provided.


China's Gilded Age, Xiao-Huang Yin Mar 1994

China's Gilded Age, Xiao-Huang Yin

Xiao-huang Yin

The article reports on social change in China. The transition from a centrally planned economy to a free market has set off an economic explosion and generated tremendous prosperity. According to the author, there are no signs of political liberalization in China and the power of the National People's Congress has increased significantly. The article discusses widespread corruption in China and the gulf between the prosperity of urban centers and the poverty of rural areas.


Reading Between The Texts: Benjamin Thomas's 'Abraham Lincoln' And Stephen Oates's 'With Malice Toward None', Robert Bray Dec 1993

Reading Between The Texts: Benjamin Thomas's 'Abraham Lincoln' And Stephen Oates's 'With Malice Toward None', Robert Bray

Robert Bray

This essay, previously published in the 'Journal of Information Ethics' (1994) is the one that ignited the Stephen B. Oates plagiarism scandal; that story is fully told in the companion book, 'Dishonest Abe Scholarship.' 'Reading between the Texts' is an analysis of parallels between the two Lincoln biographies of the title, arguing that Oates's book was in parts written out of Thomas's, without acknowledgement of the former's work.


Generational Theory And Collective Autobiography, John D. Hazlett Dec 1991

Generational Theory And Collective Autobiography, John D. Hazlett

John D Hazlett

Hazlett's essay examines the emergence of generational theory at the beginning of the 20th Century, considers some of the reasons for its popularity, and then shows how generationalism influenced the autobiographical writing of two self-proclaimed generational groups: the writers who came of age in the 1920s, and the group of activists and writers who came of age in the 1960s.


Boomer: Railroad Memoirs, Linda Niemann Dec 1989

Boomer: Railroad Memoirs, Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

No abstract provided.


"Away From Home And Amongst Strangers": Domestic Sphere, Public Arena, And Huckleberry Finn", Randall Knoper Dec 1988

"Away From Home And Amongst Strangers": Domestic Sphere, Public Arena, And Huckleberry Finn", Randall Knoper

Randall Knoper

Despite Mark Twain's situating the story “forty to fifty years ago” and in a rural river valley, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn closely engaged daily dilemmas and concerns of a Northern, urban, middle-class audience. As Carolyn Porter has argued, the familiar comprehension of American fiction as fantasies of escape from society and history, as authorial efforts to light out for the territory, needs to be dislodged by a sensitivity to such writings as acute responses to their immediate context – a developing industrial and capitalist society and culture. Although Huck's world may appear cut off from the landscape and society of …


The Scarlet Letter In China, Xiao-Huang Yin Dec 1986

The Scarlet Letter In China, Xiao-Huang Yin

Xiao-huang Yin

No abstract provided.


Brotherhood And Respectability : Freemasonry And American Culture, 1880-1930, Lynn Dumenil Dec 1980

Brotherhood And Respectability : Freemasonry And American Culture, 1880-1930, Lynn Dumenil

Lynn Dumenil

No abstract provided.