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The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature
The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature offers a general introduction as well as a range of critical approaches to this important and expanding field. Divided into three sections, the volume: Introduces "keywords" connecting the theories, themes and methodologies distinctive to Asian American Literature Addresses historical periods, geographies and literary identities Looks at different genre, form and interdisciplinarity With 41 essays from scholars in the field this collection is a comprehensive guide to a significant area of literary study for students and teachers of Ethnic American, Asian diasporic and Pacific Islander Literature. Contributors: Christin...
Fiction and Poetry to Help Us Age
This volume explores the theme of age and aging, uniquely combining personal reflections from literature professors with sound scholarly analysis of a range of fiction and poetry. Bringing together leading literary scholars, this collection of essays covers a range of writers and texts, representing both the canon and new voices. By combining the chapter authors' expertise as literary and cultural critics with their own responses to novels, short stories and poems, the book offers new insights into the life trajectories made available to fiction and poetry readers through compelling narrative and vivid literary representation.
Positioning the New
This ground-breaking edited volume includes chapters which explore the past, present and future position of Chinese American authors within the framework of what Harold Bloom identifies as the “Western literary canon.” These selections, which simultaneously represent the exciting “transnational turn” in American literary studies, not only examine whether or not Chinese American literature is inside or outside the canon, but also question if there is, or should be, a literary canon at all. Moreover, they dissect the canonicity of Chinese American literature by elucidating the social, political and cultural implications of inclusion in the canon. Ultimately, however, this collection is designed as a preliminary step towards exploring the impact of Chinese American literature on the white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant-dominated American literary world, and probing the by-products of both cultural fusion and cultural collision.
Overdetermined
Why is it so difficult to account for the role of identity in literary studies? Why do both writers and scholars of Indian English literature express resistance to India and Indianness? What does this reveal about how non-Western literatures are read, taught, and understood? Drawing on years of experiences in classrooms and on U.S. university campuses, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan explores how writers, critics, teachers, and students of Indian English literatures negotiate and resist the categories through which the field is defined: ethnic, postcolonial, and Anglophone. Overdetermined considers major contemporary authors who disavow identity even as their works and public personas respond in v...
The Maxeys of Virginia
Edward (d. 1740) and Susannah (d. 1743) Maxey of Henrico Co., Virginia. They had eight children: Edward Jr., d. 1726, Susannah, Elizabeth, John, d. 1779, William, d. 1768, Nathaniel, d. 1779, Sylvanus, d. 1770, and Walter, d. 1791. Later family members (to 1900) migrated to Washington, Idaho, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia.
South Asian Atlantic Literature, 1970-2010
A major interpretation of recent South Asian diasporic writing and cinema in specifically transatlantic terms Ruth Maxey provides readings of canonical and less well-known South Asian American and British Asian texts and key cinematic works. She explores the formal and thematic tendencies of the works, relating them to gender politics, the marketplace, and issues of literary value and historical change. While engaging with established debates, Maxey also intervenes in new ways in transatlantic, postcolonial literary, and Asian American cultural studies. Key features * Looks at writers including Jhumpa Lahiri, Bharati Mukherjee, Mohsin Hamid, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali, and Nadeem Aslam * Exp...
British Asian Fiction
In this outstanding collection of essays, editors Neil Murphy and Wai-chew Sim seek not so much to demarcate the field of British Asian fiction, but to offer due acknowledgment of the artistic merit of the works of selected authors and simultaneously register their cultural significance. This volume demonstrates in situ the virtues of commentary that engages in a substantial manner with formal and aesthetic considerations, even as it implicates the discourses of alterity that dominate contemporary cultural criticism. Additionally, the essays delineate the complex subject positions explored by authors and texts, and focus on the way writers negotiate the exigencies of their location within an...
Vital Records of Nantucket, Massachusetts
Alphabetic indexes to the manuscript records of the town, supplemented by information from church registers, cemetery inscriptions, and other sources.
The Kenyon Review
Editor: winter 1939-autumn 1941 J.C. Ransom.
A History of the Dagley Family, 1713-1986
Elias Dagley (b.ca. 1713) and his family immigrated from England to Berks County, Pennsylvania, and Elias served in the French and Indian War during and after 1769. He died after 1769. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and elsewhere. During the Civil War, descendants and relatives fought on both sides, sometimes brother against brother.
