Attempts by writers and intellectuals in former colonies to create unique national cultures are often thwarted by a context of global modernity, which discourages particularity and uniqueness. In describing unstable social and political cultures, such ''third-world intellectuals'' often find themselves torn between the competing literary ......
In Writing out of Place, Judith Fetterley and Marjorie Pryse explore a countertradition of nineteenthcentury writing previously ignored by American literary history that challenged the definition of nation and literature that emerged after the Civil War. Regionalist writers such as Alice Cary, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Grace ......
The purpose of the papers read at the meeting held in Helsinki, Finland, in 2014, and of the relevant proceedings forming this volume, was to discuss and update the historical methodologies adopted in the past and present study of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The title of the meeting and of this proceedings volume, “Writing Neo-Assyrian ......
Literature, Race, and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Cuba and t
Writing for Inclusion examines four nineteenth-century Afro-Cuban and African American writers-Juan Francisco Manzano, Frederick Douglass, Martin Morua Delgado, and Charles W. Chesnutt-whose works provide examples of self-emancipation, interrogate the terms of exclusion from the nation, and argue for inclusive visions of national identity.
The migration of American artists and intellectuals to Europe in the early twentieth century has been amply documented and studied, but few scholars have examined the aftermath of their return home. Writing Back focuses on the memoirs of modernist writers and intellectuals who struggled with their return to America after years of living ......
Collection of writers speeches made at the annual presentations of the New South Wales Premiers Literary Awards from 1980 to 1999. Contributors include Donald Horne, Geoffrey Dutton, Judith Wright, David Williamson, Manning Clark, Dorothy Green, Thomas Keneally, Rosemary Wighton, Morris West, Elizabeth Jolley, Frank Moorhouse, ......
Great writers reveal their minds and creative processes in the journals and notebooks they keep throughout their lives. This work features fascinating extracts from the collections of Henry Handel Richardson, Eric Scott, and A.D. Hope. Most of these have not previously been published.
This book examines working women in realistic and naturalistic literature. By addressing intersecting issues of race and class and including a study of domestic work, it contributes to the fields of multiculturalism, feminism, and working-class studies and to the increasing research interests in these areas.
