A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance
Author | : Cherene Sherrard-Johnson |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2015-05-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1118494148 |
A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance presents acomprehensive collection of original essays that address theliterature and culture of the Harlem Renaissance from the end ofWorld War I to the middle of the 1930s. Represents the most comprehensive coverage of themes and uniquenew perspectives on the Harlem Renaissance available Features original contributions from both emerging scholars ofthe Harlem Renaissance and established academic “stars”in the field Offers a variety of interdisciplinary features, such as thesection on visual and expressive arts, that emphasize thecollaborative nature of the era Includes “Spotlight Readings” featuring lesserknown figures of the Harlem Renaissance and newly discovered orundervalued writings by canonicalfigures
Journey Through America
Author | : Wolfgang Koeppen |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0857452312 |
This volume by one of the best known German authors of the postwar period, is one of observation, analysis, and writing, and is based on his 1958 trip to the United States. Here the author presents a portrait of the United States in the late 1950s: its major cities, its literary culture, its troubled race relations, its multi-culturalism and its vast loneliness, a motif drawn, in part, from Kafka's Amerika. A modernist travelogue, the text employs symbol, myth, and image, as if the author sought to answer de Tocqueville's questions in the manner of Joyce and Kafka. It is also a meditation on America, intended for a German audience and mindful of the destiny of postwar Europe under many Americanizing influences.
Postmodernism: A Bibliography, 1926-1994
Author | : Deborah L. Madsen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 2023-11-20 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9004647287 |
This is the first bibliography of Postmodernism to take account of work published in all subject areas and in all languages. Deborah Madsen has identified a new first occurrence of the term in 1926, preceding by more than twenty years the first occurence documented by the Oxford English Dictionary. In a chronological listing, books, articles, notes, letters and working papers on Postmodernism are described with full bibliographical details. Reviews of major books are documented and full contents listings are given for special issues of journals devoted to Postmodernism. An appendix includes books on Postmodernism announced for publication in 1995. This bibliography brings together in one place all secondary material published on Postmodernism. All disciplines are included, from anthropology to zoology: architecture, cultural studies, dance, drama, feminism, fiction, geography, history, legal studies, literary theory, mathematics, medicine, music, pedagogical theory, philosophy, photography and film, poetry, politics, religion, sociology, the visual and plastic arts, and others. The bibliography also documents items in a range of languages other than English: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Slovanian, Spanish, and the Scandinavian languages. Access to the information contained in the bibliography is made easy with a comprehensive index providing guidance according to author, subject, language, and key words. Postmodernism: A Bibliography, 1926-1994 is an essential reference text for anyone working in the area of contemporary culture studies.
The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, 1945-1990
Author | : Detlef Junker |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 610 |
Release | : 2004-05-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521834201 |
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'Closing the Gap'
Author | : D'haen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2023-11-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004647503 |
Traveling Between Worlds
Author | : Thomas Adam |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1603445625 |
In Traveling between Worlds, six authors explore the connectedness between Germans and Americans in the nineteenth century and their mutual impact on transatlantic history. Despite the ocean between them, these two groups of people were linked not only by the emigration from one to the other but also by ongoing interactions, especially among their intellectuals. Christof Mauch's introduction examines the history of the German-American exchange and of cultural exchanges in general. Focusing on various aspects of the German-American relationship, Eberhard Bruning, John T. Walker, Thomas Adam, Gabriele Lingelbach, Andrew P. Yox, and Christiane Harzig examine the cultural and communicative exchanges that occurred both between the two countries and within them. Topics such as travel, cultural interpretation, ideological and intellectual transfer, the immigrant experience, and German-American poetry are all considered. Traveling between Worlds demonstrates that exchange was facilitated and maintained by ordinary individuals such as teachers and scholars, immigrants and natives, and held implications that last to this day.