African Americans of Galveston (Images of America) by Tommie D. Boudreaux,Alice M. Gatson

A Journey into Steinbeck's California (ArtPlace)

This half artwork publication, half biography, and half go back and forth advisor bargains perception into how landscapes and townscapes encouraged John Steinbeck's artistic strategy and the way, in flip, his legacy has motivated glossy California. a variety of forms of readers will get pleasure from the data during this guide—literary pilgrims will study extra in regards to the country featured so prominently in Steinbeck's paintings, travelers can stopover at an analogous structures that he lived in and wrote approximately, and historians will take pleasure in the engrossing point of view on everyday life in early and mid 20th-century California.

Ziele und Hintergrund Claude McKays primitivistischer Strategie in 'Home to Harlem': Die Probleme eines jungen afroamerikanischen Autors (German Edition)

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Literatur, be aware: 2,0, Freie Universität Berlin (John-F. -Kennedy-Institut), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar, 12 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, summary: Claude McKay, eine der wichtigsten literarischen Figuren der Harlem Renaissance, kann guy keiner politischen Strömung eindeutig zuordnen.

Power Politics in Marriage and Medical Attitudes in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s "The Yellow Wallpaper"

Seminar paper from the yr 2015 within the topic American stories - Literature, grade: 1,7, Ruhr-University of Bochum (Englisches Seminar), path: Women’s Literature: From Anti-Slavery to financial Independence, language: English, summary: In my paper i want to check how Gilman’s nineteenth century brief tale "The Yellow Wallpaper" engages with the facility politics of marriage and the clinical attitudes in the direction of girls within the 19th-century U.

"The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman" and Other Queer Nineteenth-Century Short Stories (Q19: The Queer American Nineteenth Century)

"Perhaps it really is no twist of fate that the 19th century—the century while, it's been acknowledged, sexuality as such (and quite a few taxonomized sexual identities) have been invented—is the interval while American brief tales have been invented, and once they have been the queerest. "—Christopher Looby, from the IntroductionA guy in small-town the United States wears the garments of his spouse and sisters; happy ultimately that he has "a excellent go well with of clothes applicable for my sex," he commits suicide, asking merely that he be buried dressed as a lady.