Modern American Literature – serie

Female Bildungsroman by Toni Morrison and Maxine Hong Kingston

A Postmodern Reading

From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison

Ethics in Modern & Postmodern American Narrative

Best-Sellers and Their Film Adaptations in Postwar America

From Here to Eternity, Sayonara, Giant, Auntie Mame, Peyton Place

Lillian Hellman and August Wilson

Dramatizing a New American Identity

Blues Aesthetic and the Making of American Identity in the Literature of the South

Contemporary Latina/o Performing Arts of Moraga, Tropicana, Fusco, and Bustamante

Nation, Race & History in Asian American Literature

Re-membering the Body

Beat Generation and Counterculture

Paul Bowles, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac

Technology and Postmodern Subjectivity in Don DeLillo’s Novels

Modern and Postmodern Narratives of Race, Gender, and Identity

The Descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

Hunting the Sun

Faulkner’s Appropriations of Balzac’s Writings

Fragmented Female Body and Identity

The Postmodern, Feminist, and Multiethnic Writings of Toni Morrison, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Phyllis Alesia Perry, Gayl Jones, Emma Pérez, Paula Gunn Allen, and Kathy Acker

William Faulkner, Gavin Stevens, and the Cavalier Tradition

Autobiography, Ecology, and the Well-Placed Self

The Growth of Natural Biography in Contemporary American Life Writing

Jane Smiley, Jonathan Franzen, Don DeLillo

Narratives of Everyday Justice

"The Game as It Is Played"

Essays on Theodore Dreiser

Stephen King as a Postmodern Author

Princess Story

Modeling the Feminine in Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Film

Desire and Disillusionment

A Guide to American Fiction Since 1890

American Realist Fictions of Marriage

From Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton to Frances Harper, Pauline Hopkins

Playing with Expectations

Postmodern Narrative Choices and the African American Novel

Nation of Islam and Black Consciousness

The Works of Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, and Other Writers

Toni Morrison and the Maternal

From «The Bluest Eye» to «God Help the Child», Revised Edition

Paradox of Thanatos: Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg

From Self-Destruction to Self-Liberation

Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture

Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Tod Browning, and Carson McCullers

Hemingway’s Primitivism

A Quest for Primal Authenticity

"Forest Beatniks" and "Urban Thoreaus"

Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, Lew Welch, and Michael McClure

Domestic Refineries

Black Family (dys)function in Novels by Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, and Fannie Hurst

Family in Twentieth-Century American Drama