Author: T. R. Johnson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 100907654X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
The neighborhoods of New Orleans have given rise to an extraordinary outpouring of important writing. Over the last century and a half or so, these stories and songs have given the city its singular place in the human imagination. This book leads the reader along five thoroughfares that define these different parts of town – Royal, St. Claude, Esplanade, Basin, and St. Charles – to explore how the writers who have lived around them have responded in closely related ways to the environments they share. On the outskirts of New Orleans today, the city's precarious relation to its watery surroundings and the vexed legacies of race loom especially large. But the city's literature shows us that these themes have been near to hand for New Orleans writers for several generations, whether reflected through questions of masquerade, dreams of escape, the innocence of children, or the power of money or of violence or of memory.
New Orleans
Author: T. R. Johnson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 100907654X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
The neighborhoods of New Orleans have given rise to an extraordinary outpouring of important writing. Over the last century and a half or so, these stories and songs have given the city its singular place in the human imagination. This book leads the reader along five thoroughfares that define these different parts of town – Royal, St. Claude, Esplanade, Basin, and St. Charles – to explore how the writers who have lived around them have responded in closely related ways to the environments they share. On the outskirts of New Orleans today, the city's precarious relation to its watery surroundings and the vexed legacies of race loom especially large. But the city's literature shows us that these themes have been near to hand for New Orleans writers for several generations, whether reflected through questions of masquerade, dreams of escape, the innocence of children, or the power of money or of violence or of memory.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 100907654X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
The neighborhoods of New Orleans have given rise to an extraordinary outpouring of important writing. Over the last century and a half or so, these stories and songs have given the city its singular place in the human imagination. This book leads the reader along five thoroughfares that define these different parts of town – Royal, St. Claude, Esplanade, Basin, and St. Charles – to explore how the writers who have lived around them have responded in closely related ways to the environments they share. On the outskirts of New Orleans today, the city's precarious relation to its watery surroundings and the vexed legacies of race loom especially large. But the city's literature shows us that these themes have been near to hand for New Orleans writers for several generations, whether reflected through questions of masquerade, dreams of escape, the innocence of children, or the power of money or of violence or of memory.
Conflicting Stories
Author: Elizabeth Ammons
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019535981X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The early 1890s through the late 1920s saw an explosion in serious long fiction by women in the United States. Considering a wide range of authors--African American, Asian American, white American, and Native American--this book looks at the work of seventeen writers from that period: Frances Ellen Harper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Kate Chopin, Pauline Hopkins, Gertrude Stein, Mary Austin, Sui Sin Far, Willa Cather, Humishuma, Jessie Fauset, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Anzia Yezierska, Edith Summers Kelley, and Nella Larsen. The discussion focuses on the differences in their work and the similarities that unite them, particularly their determination to experiment with narrative form as they explored and voiced issues of power for women. Analyzing the historical context that both enabled and limited American women writers at the turn of the century, Ammons provides detailed readings of many texts and offers extensive commentary on the interaction between race and gender. This book joins the deepening discussion of modern women writers' creation of themselves as artists and raises fundamental questions about the shape of American literary history as it has been constructed in the academy.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019535981X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The early 1890s through the late 1920s saw an explosion in serious long fiction by women in the United States. Considering a wide range of authors--African American, Asian American, white American, and Native American--this book looks at the work of seventeen writers from that period: Frances Ellen Harper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Kate Chopin, Pauline Hopkins, Gertrude Stein, Mary Austin, Sui Sin Far, Willa Cather, Humishuma, Jessie Fauset, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Anzia Yezierska, Edith Summers Kelley, and Nella Larsen. The discussion focuses on the differences in their work and the similarities that unite them, particularly their determination to experiment with narrative form as they explored and voiced issues of power for women. Analyzing the historical context that both enabled and limited American women writers at the turn of the century, Ammons provides detailed readings of many texts and offers extensive commentary on the interaction between race and gender. This book joins the deepening discussion of modern women writers' creation of themselves as artists and raises fundamental questions about the shape of American literary history as it has been constructed in the academy.
The Industrial History of the Negro Race of the United States
Author: Giles Beecher Jackson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The Brothers; Or the Castle of Niolo. A Romance
Author: Robert HUISH
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories
Author: James Nagel
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817313389
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
All of these historical factors energize and enrich the fiction of this important region. The literary context of these volumes is also central to understanding their place in literary history. They are short-story cycles--collections of short fiction that contain unifying settings, recurring characters or character types, and central themes and motifs. They are also examples of the "local color" tradition in fiction, a movement that has been much misunderstood. Nagel maintains that "local color" literature was meant to be the highest form of American writing, not the lowest, and its objective was to capture the locations, folkways, values, dialects, conflicts, and ways of life in the various regions of the country in order to show that the lives of common citizens were sufficiently important to be the subject of serious literature.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817313389
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
All of these historical factors energize and enrich the fiction of this important region. The literary context of these volumes is also central to understanding their place in literary history. They are short-story cycles--collections of short fiction that contain unifying settings, recurring characters or character types, and central themes and motifs. They are also examples of the "local color" tradition in fiction, a movement that has been much misunderstood. Nagel maintains that "local color" literature was meant to be the highest form of American writing, not the lowest, and its objective was to capture the locations, folkways, values, dialects, conflicts, and ways of life in the various regions of the country in order to show that the lives of common citizens were sufficiently important to be the subject of serious literature.
Paris
Author: William Walton
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732642402
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Paris by William Walton
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732642402
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Paris by William Walton
The Goodness of Saint Roch
Author: Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988962781
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Using the name Alice Dunbar, this book was originally published in 1899 as The Goodness of Saint Rocque and Other Stories by Dodd, Mead and Company in New York, and therefore falls under the public domain." -- Title page verso.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988962781
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Using the name Alice Dunbar, this book was originally published in 1899 as The Goodness of Saint Rocque and Other Stories by Dodd, Mead and Company in New York, and therefore falls under the public domain." -- Title page verso.
St. Nicholas
Author: George Harley McKnight
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
St. Nicholas is a book by George Harley McKnight. It delves into the Legend of St. Nicholas and his role in the Christmas celebration and other popular customs.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
St. Nicholas is a book by George Harley McKnight. It delves into the Legend of St. Nicholas and his role in the Christmas celebration and other popular customs.
The American Catholic Historical Researches
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
The Church of England magazine [afterw.] The Church of England and Lambeth magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description