Peekskill's African American History: A Hudson Valley by John J. Curran

A Journey into Steinbeck's California (ArtPlace)

This half paintings e-book, half biography, and half shuttle consultant bargains perception into how landscapes and townscapes motivated John Steinbeck's inventive approach and the way, in flip, his legacy has prompted smooth California. numerous forms of readers will savor the knowledge during this guide—literary pilgrims will examine extra concerning the kingdom featured so prominently in Steinbeck's paintings, travelers can stopover at an analogous constructions that he lived in and wrote approximately, and historians will savour the engrossing standpoint 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 reports - Literature, grade: 1,7, Ruhr-University of Bochum (Englisches Seminar), direction: Women’s Literature: From Anti-Slavery to fiscal Independence, language: English, summary: In my paper i need to envision how Gilman’s nineteenth century brief tale "The Yellow Wallpaper" engages with the facility politics of marriage and the scientific attitudes in the direction of ladies 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 stated, sexuality as such (and a number of taxonomized sexual identities) have been invented—is the interval while American brief tales have been invented, and after they have been the queerest. "—Christopher Looby, from the IntroductionA guy in small-town the USA wears the garments of his spouse and sisters; chuffed eventually that he has "a excellent go well with of clothes acceptable for my sex," he commits suicide, asking merely that he be buried dressed as a girl.