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Grauzľová, Lucia. "Canadian literature as an American literature : CanLit through the lens of hemispheric American literary studies." Brno studies in English, no. 1 (2022): 149–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/bse2022-1-8.

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This paper addresses the noticeably low presence of Canadian literature in hemispheric American literary research. The fact that hemispheric literary studies focuses on a comparison of the United States and Spanish America is partly because of Canada's marginal position in the Americas, its lack of identification with the continent, and Canadian scholars' reluctance to engage in hemispheric studies due to their insecurity concerning cultural identity and the discipline's potential imperialistic impulses. By examining a representative history of Canadian literature and several literary studies for intersections and tangencies between Canadian literature and other literatures of the Americas, this paper will demonstrate that there are natural links between them, which make a transnational comparative approach to Canadian literature both legitimate and desirable.

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See, Fred G. "American Literature in American Literature." Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 46, no. 2 (1990): 111–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/arq.1990.0007.

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Hemenway, Stephen I. "Review: Three American Literatures: Essays in Chicano, Native American, and Asian-American Literature for Teachers of American Literature." Christianity & Literature 34, no. 3 (June 1985): 71–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/014833318503400316.

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Wang, Xiaotao. "Transnationalism in Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men and Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club." Journal of Education and Culture Studies 4, no. 2 (May 20, 2020): p122. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/jecs.v4n2p122.

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Chinese American literature is commonly interpreted as the narrative of the living experiences of Chinese Americans. Under the past nation-state research paradigm, Chinese American literature critics both in China and America are preoccupied with the “assimilation” of immigrants and their descendants in Chinese American literature texts, they argue that Chinese culture is the barrier for the immigrants to be fully assimilated into the mainstream society. But putting Chinese American literature under the context of globalization, these arguments seem inaccurate and out of date. This article examines the transnational practices and emotional attachments in Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men and Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club to show that the identity in these two works are neither American nor Chinese, but transnational. Thus, Chinese American literature is not the writing of Chinese Americans’ Americanness, but a celebration of their transnationalism.

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Pratt, Lloyd. "Early American Literature and Its Exclusions." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 128, no. 4 (October 2013): 983–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2013.128.4.983.

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James Allen, the author of an “epic poem” entitled “Bunker Hill,” of which but a few fragments have been published, lived in the same period. The world lost nothing by “his neglect of fame.”—Rufus Griswold, The Poets and Poetry of AmericaAcross several of his influential anthologies of american literature, rufus griswold—nineteenth-century anthologist, poet, and erstwhile editor of Edgar Allan Poe—offers conflicting measures of what we now call early American literature. In The Prose Writers of America, for example, which first appeared in 1847 and later went into multiple editions, Griswold offers a familiar and currently derided set of parameters for this corpus of writing. In his prefatory remarks, dated May 1847, he explains that he has chosen not to include “the merely successful writers” who precede him. Although success might appear a high enough bar to warrant inclusion, he emphasizes that he has focused on writers who “have evinced unusual powers in controlling the national mind, or in forming the national character …” (5). This emphasis on what has been nationally consequential echoes other moments in Prose Writers, as well as paratextual material in his earlier The Poets and Poetry of America (1842) and his Female Poets of America (1848). In his several miniature screeds condemning the lack of international copyright, as well as the consequent flooding of the American market with cheap reprints, Griswold explains the “difficulties and dangers” this lack poses to “American literature”: “Injurious as it is to the foreign author, it is more so to the American [people,] whom it deprives of that nationality of feeling which is among the first and most powerful incentives to every feat of greatness” (Prose Writers 6). In The Poets and Poetry of America, he similarly complains that America's “national tastes and feelings are fashioned by the subject of kings; and they will continue so to be, until [there is] an honest and political system of reciprocalcopyright …” (v). Even in The Female Poets of America, the subject of which one might think would change the nature of this conversation, Griswold returns to the national project, examining the significance of women writers for it. He cites the fact that several of the poets included in this volume have written from lives that were “no holydays of leisure” but defined rather by everything from “practical duties” to the experience of slavery. He also responds to those carping “foreign critics” who propose that “our citizens are too much devoted to business and politics to feel interest in pursuits which adorn but do not profit”; these home-laboring women writers, he argues, may end up being the source of that which is most genuinely American and most correctly poetic: “Those who cherish a belief that the progress of society in this country is destined to develop a school of art, original and special, will perhaps find more decided indications of the infusion of our domestic spirit and temper in literature, in the poetry of our female authors, than in that of our men” (8). As it turns out, even women poets are held to the standard of national self-expression and national self-realization; the surprise lies only in the fact that they live up to this standard.

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Rostagno, Irene. "Waldo Frank's Crusade for Latin American Literature." Americas 46, no. 1 (July 1989): 41–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1007393.

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Waldo Frank, who is now forgotten in Latin America, was once the most frequently read and admired North American author there. Though his work is largely neglected in the U.S., he was at one time the leading North American expert on Latin American writing. His name looms large in tracing the careers of Latin American writers in this country before 1940. Long before Franklin D. Roosevelt launched the Good Neighbor policy, Frank brought back to his countrymen news of Latin American culture.Frank went to South America when he was almost forty. The youthful dreams of Frank and his fellow pre-World War I writers and artists to make their country a fit place for cultural renaissance that would change society had waned with the onset of the twenties.1 But they had not completely vanished. Disgruntled by the climate of "normalcy" prevailing in America after World War I, he turned to Latin America. He started out in the Southwest. The remnants of Mexican culture he found in Arizona and New Mexico enticed him to venture further into the Hispanic world. In 1921 he traveled extensively in Spain and in 1929 spent six months exploring Latin America.

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Sherly. H, Ms Monica, and Dr Aseda Fatima.R. "Patriarchal Oppression in Pearl S Buck’s Novel The Good Earth." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 2 (February 28, 2020): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i2.10406.

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The story of American literature begins in the early 1600’s, long before there were any “Americans”. American literature blossomed with the skillful and brilliant writer during 1900s. Pearl S Buck was born to the family of Presbyterian missionary in 1892 in West Virginia. Being a successful writer in nineteenth century, she published various novels and she was the first female laureate in America and fourth woman writer to receive Nobel Prize in Literature. Oppression is an element that is common in patriarchal society where the women are always subjugated by the men in the family. This paper is to depict the men’s oppression in the novel through the character Wang Lang and how the female character O-Lan is surviving from all the struggles that she faces from her own family members. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. Literature is the reflection of mind. It is the great creative and universal means of communicating to the humankind. This creativity shows the difference between the writers and the people who simply write their views, ideas and thoughts. American literature began with the discovery of America. American literature begins with the orally transmitted myths, legends, tales and lyrics of Indian cultures. Native American oral literature is quite diverse. The story of American literature begins in the early 1600’s, long before there were any “Americans”. The earliest writers were Englishmen describing the English exploration and colonization of the New World.

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Fitz, Earl E. "“Brazilians are natural comparatists”." Revista Brasileira de Literatura Comparada 24, no. 45 (April 2022): 102–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2596-304x20222445eef.

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ABSTRACT Comparatism and Brazilian and Hispanic-American literatures. The role of the North American University in the propagation of Latin American literatures. Trends of the recent Brazilian and Hispanic-American literary production. Circulation of Brazilian literature in North America. Afro-descendant writers and American culture.

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Lease, Benjamin. "How ‘American’ is American Literature?" English Today 1, no. 2 (April 1985): 39–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078400000183.

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What do we understand nowadays by the phrase ‘American literature’? What factors have shaped it and made it distinctive and autonomous, and what relation does it now bear to the traditional conception of ‘English literature’?

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Franco, Dean J. "Teaching Jewish American Literature as Global Ethnic American Literature." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. 37, no. 2 (2012): 183–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mel.2012.0036.

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Xayrulloyevna, Shamamedova Zinnat. "DEVELOPMENT OF THE DETECTIVE GENRE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE." International Journal Of Literature And Languages 03, no. 03 (March 1, 2023): 24–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.37547/ijll/volume03issue03-06.

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The article is devoted to the historical aspect of the development of the American detective genre. Various approaches to the formulation of the rules for creating works in the detective genre are also considered. The plot of the crime and the role of law enforcement agencies in the disclosure and elimination of criminal cases in the modern detective genre are studied in detail.

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Pinsker, Sanford, and Peter Shaw. "Recovering American Literature." American Literature 66, no. 4 (December 1994): 833. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2927706.

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Chemezova, Ekaterina Rudol'fovna. "“Toxic” American literature." Litera, no. 10 (October 2021): 97–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8698.2021.10.36271.

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The subject of this research is the behavior model of the characters in modern American literature. The goal lies in examination of the key attributes of “toxicity” as an element of artistic world resembled in modern American literature. The object of this research is the prose of Chuck Palahniuk. It is established that “toxicity” is one of the plotline components for building the characters of the heroes in modern American literature. The conducted analysis of the images of heroes and the components of artistic world of C. Palahniuk’s prose allows concluding that “toxicity” is not only the binding element in the artistic world of American literature, but also a construct that forms the dynamic development of the heroes. The scientific novelty consists in the fact that this article is first to analyze “toxicity” as an artistic element of modern American literary texts. Prior to that, “toxicity” as a phenomenon was viewed from the perspective of psychological, sociological, and philosophical research. Therefore, the study of the phenomenon of toxicity in literature is of particular relevance due to its interdisciplinarity. The author believes that the types ad peculiarities of “toxicity” as an element of the artistic world in modern American literature, as well as interaction of other structural elements should be also viewed on the example of other works of modern American literature. The characteristic features that unite the works as a transgressive prose should be determined and compared.

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Post-Lauria, Sheila, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Eric J. Sundquist, and Ronald Takaki. "Revisioning American Literature." College English 56, no. 8 (December 1994): 938. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/378774.

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Arias, Arturo. "Central American Literature." World Literature Today 75, no. 3/4 (2001): 104. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40156758.

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Thomas, Trudelle, and Paul Lauter. "Reconstructing American Literature." MELUS 12, no. 3 (1985): 109. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/467124.

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Brannon, Lil, and Brenda M. Greene. "Rethinking American Literature." College Composition and Communication 50, no. 2 (December 1998): 293. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/358522.

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Wagner-Martin, Linda. "Teaching American Literature." Pedagogy 2, no. 2 (April 1, 2002): 271–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/15314200-2-2-271.

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Castronovo, Russ. "American Literature Internationale." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 50, no. 1-3 (2004): 59–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/esq.2004.0008.

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Vizenor, Gerald, and Andrew Wiget. "Native American Literature." American Indian Quarterly 9, no. 1 (1985): 121. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1184680.

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Saposnik, Irving, and Sam B. Girgus. "Jewish American Literature." Contemporary Literature 26, no. 4 (1985): 492. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1208120.

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McKay, Nellie Y., Charles T. Davis, Henry Louis Gates, and Michael G. Cooke. "Afro-American Literature." Contemporary Literature 27, no. 2 (1986): 270. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1208662.

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De Marco, Alessandra. "Italian American literature." Literature Compass 13, no. 11 (November 2016): 693–700. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12354.

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Donougho, Martin. "Theorizing American Literature." Owl of Minerva 23, no. 2 (1992): 196–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/owl199223210.

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Black, Christopher Allan. "American Literature Association." Early American Literature 58, no. 1 (2023): 287–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.0025.

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McGann, Jerome. "Colonial Exceptionalism on Native Grounds: American Literature before American Literature." Critical Inquiry 45, no. 3 (March 2019): 640–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/702593.

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Chorieva, Asila A. "THE BEGINNING OF ROMANTICISM PERIOD AND THE INFLUENCE OF EUROPEAN ROMANTICISM TO AMERICAN LITERATURE." Oriental Journal of Social Sciences 02, no. 06 (June 1, 2022): 55–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.37547/supsci-ojss-02-03-07.

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Thе mаin tоpic оf our article is about Romanticism in American literature. The article will cover the history of American Romanticism and how it developed, as well as the writing style of American authors and also we speak about the influence of European Romanticism to America literature. Finally, the study will give arguments that investigate the concept of American Romanticism and well-known works of this genre in that period.

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Bogue, Ronald. "On the Superiority of Anglo-American Literature." Deleuze Studies 7, no. 3 (August 2013): 302–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/dls.2013.0113.

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In Dialogues, Deleuze contrasts French and Anglo-American literatures, arguing that the French are tied to hierarchies, origins, manifestos and personal disputes, whereas the English and Americans discover a line of flight that escapes hierarchies, and abandons questions of origins, schools and personal alliances, instead discovering a collective process of ongoing invention, without beginning or determinate end. Deleuze especially appreciates American writers, and above all Herman Melville. What ultimately distinguishes American from English literature is its pragmatic, democratic commitment to sympathy and camaraderie on the open road. For Deleuze, the American literary line of flight is toward the West, but this orientation reflects his almost exclusive focus on writers of European origins. If one turns to Chinese-American literature, the questions of a literary geography become more complex. Through an examination of works by Maxine Hong Kingston and Tao Lin, some of these complexities are detailed.

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Gomez Galisteo, Mª Carmen. "Representing Native American Women in Early Colonial American Writings: Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Juan Ortiz and John Smith." Sederi, no. 19 (2009): 25–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.34136/sederi.2009.2.

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Most observers of Native Americans during the contact period between Europe and the Americas represented Native American women as monstrous beings posing potential threats to the Europeans’ physical integrity. However, the most well known portrait of Native American women is John Smith’s description of Pocahontas, the Native American princess who, the legend goes, saved Smith from being executed. Transformed into a children’s tale, further popularized by the Disney movie, as well as being the object of innumerable historical studies questioning or asserting the veracity of Smith’s claims, the fact remains that the Smith-Pocahontas story is at the very core of North American culture. Nevertheless, far from being original, John Smith’s story had a precedent in the story of Spaniard Juan Ortiz, a member of the ill-fated Narváez expedition to Florida in 1527. Ortiz, who got lost in America and spent the rest of his life there, was also rescued by a Native American princess from being sacrificed in the course of a Native American ritual, as recounted by the Gentleman of Elvas, member of the Hernando de Soto expedition. Yet another vision of Native American women is that offered by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, another participant of the Narváez expedition who, during almost a decade in the Americas fulfilled a number of roles among the Native Americans, including some that were regarded as female roles. These female roles provided him with an opportunity to avert captivity as well as a better understanding of gender roles within Native American civilization. This essay explores the description of Native American women posed by John Smith, Juan Ortiz and Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca so as to illustrate different images of Native American women during the early contact period as conveyed by these works.

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Bruce, Heather E. "Hoop Dancing: Literature Circles and Native American Storytelling." English Journal 93, no. 1 (September 1, 2003): 54–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/ej20032611.

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Misrepresentations of Indian culture can be addressed through the study of Native American oral traditions and literatures. Simply teaching works by Native Americans, however, is not enough, according to Heather E. Bruce. Here she details the use of literature circles and storytelling in the classroom to combat negative stereotypes and racism.

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Jerbi, Syrine. "Unveiling the tapestry of Arab American writings." International Journal of Language and Literary Studies 5, no. 2 (July 21, 2023): 384–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.36892/ijlls.v5i2.1362.

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Arab Americans living in the United States are represented in the intriguing and varied body of Arab American Literature. It is a diverse and significant body of writing that reflects the experiences and perspectives of Arab Americans in the United States. It explores powerful examples of how difficult it is to deal with identity, heritage, and belonging concerns in a diverse community. Arab American writers, from Ameen Rihani to Naomi Shihab Nye, have made creative contributions with their viewpoints, illuminating the rich tapestry of life in Arab America in everything from provocative novels to tender poetry and perceptive essays. However, Arab American authors have faced numerous challenges, including prejudice, stereotypes, language barriers, and limited publishing opportunities. Despite these obstacles, they have persisted in using their literary works as a means of self-expression, cultural preservation, and empowerment. To promote the visibility and acknowledgment of Arab American voices, readers, institutions, and literary communities must actively support and endorse Arab American authors and their work. Arab American Literature contributes to a more inclusive and interconnected society, dispelling myths and fostering empathy and understanding across cultural divides.

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Candelaria-Greene, Jamie. "Misperspectives on Literacy." Written Communication 11, no. 2 (April 1994): 251–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0741088394011002004.

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This article argues that historians of literacy, including Carl Kaestle, Harvey Graff, Suzanne de Castell, and Allan Luke, have not taken into account America's Hispanic literacy legacy. Drawing examples from historical accounts, diaries, and Spanish civil law, the author illustrates the depth and breadth of Hispanic contributions to American literacy. The article sharply contrasts the (relatively recent) image of “literacy deficient” Hispanic Americans with the rich legacy of their forebearers, who brought a new world of literacy to early America.

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Schoene, Berthold. "Contemporary American Literature as World Literature: Cruel Cosmopolitanism, Cosmopoetics, and the Search for a Worldlier American Novel." Anglia 135, no. 1 (March 1, 2017): 86–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ang-2017-0006.

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AbstractWith reference to Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010), Amy Waldman’s The Submission (2011) and Teju Cole’s Open City (2011), the first two parts of the article attempt a reappraisal of contemporary American literature’s world-literary potential by problematizing cosmopolitanism and neoliberal globalization in close relation to 9/11, the ideal of American multiculture and non-American assertions of alterity. Introducing Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism (2011) and Mitchum Huehls’ After Critique (2016), the third part then shifts its focus onto the crisis of the neoliberal condition as lived in America today. Rather than insisting merely on thematic and demographic reprioritization, Berlant and Huehls are shown to strike at the very core of the literary and the human, exposing the ‘cruelty’ of both the novel and cosmopolitanism as residual expressions of a now anachronistic and ultimately harmful optimism regarding national cohesion and global understanding. The article concludes its search for a worldlier, more cosmopoetic American novel with an analysis of George Saunders’ short story collection Tenth of December (2013).

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Dworkin, Ira. "Radwa Ashour, African American Criticism, and the Production of Modern Arabic Literature." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 5, no. 1 (January 2018): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pli.2017.44.

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In 1973, at the suggestion of her mentor Shirley Graham Du Bois, the Egyptian scholar, activist, teacher, and novelist Radwa Ashour enrolled at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, to study African American literature and culture. Ashour’s 1975 dissertation “The Search for a Black Poetics: A Study of Afro-American Critical Writings,” along with her 1983 autobiography,Al-Rihla: Ayyam taliba misriyya fi amrika[The Journey: An Egyptian Woman Student’s Memoirs in America], specifically engage with debates that emerged at the First International Congress of Negro Writers and Artists in September 1956 between African Americans and others from the African diaspora (most notably Aimé Césaire) regarding the applicability of the “colonial thesis” to the United States. This article argues that Ashour’s early engagement with African American cultural politics are formative of her fiction, particularly her 1991 novel,Siraaj: An Arab Tale,which examines overlapping questions of slavery, empire, and colonialism in the Arab world.

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Pun, Min. "Anti-Racist Pedagogy in the Canonization of Toni Morrison." Crossing the Border: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 5, no. 2 (July 15, 2017): 15–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ctbijis.v5i2.18434.

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The paper aims to examine the anti-racist approach in pedagogy in relation to the issues of representations of African Americans in American schools, curricula, and literary canon. It has considered anti-racist pedagogy as a correct approach to creating a truly democratic society in a racist society like the United States of America. In order to address these issues, Toni Morrison has been considered the most successful African American writer who has attained canonical status within the mainstream of both African American and American literature. The paper has, thus, raised some of the vital issues related to the representations of African Americans in American schools, curricula, and the literary canons.Crossing the Border: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 5(2) 2017: 15-24

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Smith, Lindsey Claire. "Transcending the ‘Tragic Mulatto’: The Intersection of Black and Indian Heritage in Contemporary literature." Ethnic Studies Review 26, no. 1 (January 1, 2003): 45–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/esr.2003.26.1.45.

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The supposed plight of multi-racial persons is widely depicted in modern American literature, including the works of William Faulkner, whose stories follow the lives of multi-racial characters such as Joe Christmas and Sam Fathers, who, reflecting characteristics of “tragic mulatto” figures, search for acceptance in a racially polarized Mississippi society. Yet more contemporary literature, including works by Michael Dorris, Leslie Marmon Silko, Toni Morrison, and Clarence Major, reference the historical relationship between African Americans and American Indians, featuring multi-racial characters that more successfully fit the fabric of current American culture than do more “traditional” works such as Faulkner's. While an outdated black-white binary still lingers in American perceptions of race, increasingly, racial identity is now informed by self-identification, community recognition, and acculturation. As a result, black and Indian characters, as well as multi-racial authors, provide varied and insightful glimpses into the complexity of America's racial landscape.

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Thompson, Kenneth W. "The Literature of Decline." Ethics & International Affairs 3 (March 1989): 303–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-7093.1989.tb00225.x.

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This article compares reflections from four sources on the state of the American democracy in the international community (The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000, by Paul Kennedy; 1999: Victory Without War, by Richard Nixon; “Communism at Bay,”The Economist; Long Cycles in World Politics, by George Modelski) within the framework of the 1980s, which was portrayed by leaders as “an era of good feelings.” Yet drastically different positions on American rise or decline are propounded by historians and officeholders, former presidents and scholars, journalists and aspiring candidates for political office. These four writings reveal the complexity of the analysis of the American decline. Yet, it is crucial for leaders to maintain public devotion to their nation, not through passion, but rather, in the words of Abraham Lincoln, through “the solid quarry of sober reason,”. America's capacity to preserve a strong and healthy resilience, the author concludes, is the exceptional value it continues to offer the world.

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Мухаммедова, Нилуфар. "Native americans in the stories of Sherman Alexie." Актуальные вопросы лингвистики и преподавания иностранных языков: достижения и инновации 1, no. 1 (April 24, 2024): 399–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.47689/topical-tiltfl-vol1-iss1-2024-pp399-402.

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In the XX century of American Literature the themes, new characters, new directions and genres could be observed in the novels, stories and poems. In their scholarly articles literary critics analyzed the multicultural dimension in the literature of this period as the country had raised a new generation of immigrants, who were writing about their national identities in American society. Thus XX century American literature could be considered as multicultural literature that depicted the life of new generation of people who belong to various cultures but who grew up and were educated in modern American society. In its turn this multiculturalism caused the development of different nations studies that examined this aspect of literature. Examples are Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese and Mexican literary studies. Similarly, there is also Native American literature that studies creative works written by a new generation of Native American Indians. Representatives of Native American Literature raised several issues that young generation of native Americans are facing in American society. This paper deals with the stories of the Native American writer Sherman Alexie, whose works depict life, interests and problems of modern native Americans.

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Harrington, J. "Why American Poetry Is Not American Literature." American Literary History 8, no. 3 (March 1, 1996): 496–515. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/8.3.496.

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Abarry, Abu. "The African-American Legacy in American Literature." Journal of Black Studies 20, no. 4 (June 1990): 379–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002193479002000401.

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Malik, Shaista, Ayaz Muhammad Shah, and Abdul Shakoor Abassi. "AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURE AS ‘LITERATURE OF COMBAT’." Pakistan Journal of Social Research 05, no. 01 (March 31, 2023): 267–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.52567/pjsr.v5i01.1002.

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The present research paper aims to explore the ways in which literature and its celluloid stepchild, the cinema, have been employed in combination with supposedly nonfictional venues to falsify the realities of Euro- American interaction with the continent’s indigenous people, both historically and in the contemporary setting. Its purpose is to shred away to some extent an elaborate shroud of misimpression and misinformation behind which the dreadful visage of Euro-American subjugation, occupation and massacre have been so prudently veiled. These all complications are accredited to ethnic and social deterioration which is outcome of intensified control of genocide, colonialism, enforced cultural and institutional accommodation, monetary reliance and racism.Keywords: Colonization, American Indian cultures, Collapse of social structures, Resistance literature, Native survival, Systematic marginalization.

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CHATTARJI, SUBARNO. "“The New Americans”: The Creation of a Typology of Vietnamese-American Identity in Children's Literature." Journal of American Studies 44, no. 2 (January 20, 2010): 409–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875809991411.

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The influx of Vietnamese refugees, “boat people,” and immigrants into the United States after April 1975 has led to the establishment of a significant Vietnamese-American community. There is a body of literature written for children and young adults that creates and delineates this new community within the topography of a welcoming and immigrant-friendly USA. This paper will examine the meanings and implications of the appellation “Vietnamese-American” as defined within a body of nonfiction children's literature. It will highlight how these texts negotiate questions related to refugee status, immigration, identity and belonging, contributing in many instances to a bland re-creation of a formerly oppressed but now coherent and increasingly prosperous and Americanized people. The children's literature plays an important role in defining the relatively new community to itself and to mainstream America. In its dissemination of truisms about Confucian heritages and stereotypes of “model minorities” the literature reveals as much about American ideological desires as it does about “the new Americans.”

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Miller, Nicola. "Recasting the Role of the Intellectual: Chilean Poet Gabriela Mistral." Feminist Review 79, no. 1 (March 2005): 134–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400206.

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The life and work of Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1945, is examined as an example of how difficult it was for women to win recognition as intellectuals in 20th-century Latin America. Despite an international reputation for erudition and political commitment, Mistral has traditionally been represented in stereotypically gendered terms as the ‘Mother’ and ‘Schoolteacher’ of the Americas, and it has been repeatedly claimed that she was both apolitical and anti-intellectual. This article contests such claims, arguing that she was not only committed to fulfilling the role of an intellectual, but that she also elaborated a critique of the dominant male Latin American view of intellectuality, probing the boundaries of both rationality and nationality as constructed by male Euro-Americans. In so doing, she addressed many of the crucial issues that still confront intellectuals today in Latin America and elsewhere.

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Kennedy, J. Gerald, Jean Meral, and Laurette Long. "Paris in American Literature." American Literature 62, no. 4 (December 1990): 702. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2927081.

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Hellmann, John, and Philip H. Melling. "Vietnam in American Literature." American Literature 64, no. 1 (March 1992): 196. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2927528.

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Gura, Philip F., and Sacvan Bercovitch. "Essaying Early American Literature." New England Quarterly 68, no. 1 (March 1995): 118. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/365968.

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Stavans, Ilan. "Is American Literature Parochial?" World Literature Today 87, no. 4 (2013): 26–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2013.0087.

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Suleiman, Yasir. "On Arab American Literature." Holy Land Studies 6, no. 2 (November 2007): 214–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/hls.2007.6.2.214.

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Ilan Stavans. "Is American Literature Parochial?" World Literature Today 87, no. 4 (2013): 26. http://dx.doi.org/10.7588/worllitetoda.87.4.0026.

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Prospo, R. C. De. "Marginalizing Early American Literature." New Literary History 23, no. 2 (1992): 233. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/469233.

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