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"""American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader"" gathers together leading scholars of American literature to uniquely engage the strategies and methods prominent in literary scholarship today. Each has chosen an essay that he or she considers to be a classic in the field, which he or she then introduces, explaining why it is both exemplary in its approach and central to the issues that most engage American literary scholarship today. This volume serves as a starting point for teachers and students to explore the fundamental questions of American literary scholarship: What does ""method"" mean in literary studies? Which texts should it study? What makes literary study unique? What should literary scholarship do? ""American Literary Studies"" answers these questions by clearly articulating problems of methodology in American literary studies."

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Author:   Michael A. Elliott ,  Claudia Stokes
Publisher:   New York University Press
Imprint:   New York University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.608kg
ISBN:  

9780814722152

ISBN 10:   0814722156
Pages:   349
Publication Date:   15 December 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: What Is Method and Why DoesIt Matter?Part One: History and Literature in America 1 Domesticating Virtue: Coquettes and Revolutionaries in Young America2 Vanishing Americans: Gender, Empire, and New Historicism3 Seeing Sentiment: Photography, Race, and the Innocent Eye4 The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, Anita Hill Part Two: Reading ""Culture"" 5 Mass Culture/Popular Culture: Notes for a Humanist's Primer6 Dancing for Eels at Catherine Market 7 AIDS, Homophobia, and Biomedical Discourse: An Epidemic of Signi?cation8 The Occult of True Black Womanhood Part Three: Nationalism Reconsidered9 The Mass Public and the Mass Subject10 Traditional Narrative: Contemporary Uses, Historical Perspectives 11 The Stakes of Textual Border-Crossing: Hualing Nieh's Mulberry and Peach in Sinocentric, Asian American, and Feminist Critical Practices12 Americanization: What Are We Talking About?"

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Offers insight into the dynamics of race, class, gender and sexuality. - Hispanic LInk Weekly Report , Forget about Ricky Martin and Shakira, here come El Vez and Marga Gomez. Habell-Pallan has produced a highly original study of Chicano/Latino popular culture and of its local, national and international dimensions by taking us into the world of alternative and experimental Chicano/Latino art. -Arlene Davila, author of Barrio Dreams Loca Motion is a work of intelligent exuberance. Michelle Habell-Pallan has the eyes, ears, and heart to read popular performance, culture, and music as the new archives of Chicana and Latina transnational and translocal histories. -Lisa Lowe, UC San Diego

Offers insight into the dynamics of race, class, gender and sexuality. - Hispanic LInk Weekly Report , Loca Motion is a work of intelligent exuberance. Michelle Habell-Pallan has the eyes, ears, and heart to read popular performance, culture, and music as the new archives of Chicana and Latina transnational and translocal histories. -Lisa Lowe, UC San Diego Forget about Ricky Martin and Shakira, here come El Vez and Marga Gomez. Habell-Pallan has produced a highly original study of Chicano/Latino popular culture and of its local, national and international dimensions by taking us into the world of alternative and experimental Chicano/Latino art. -Arlene Davila, author of Barrio Dreams

Author Information

Michael A. Elliott is Assistant Professor of English at Emory University. He is the author of The Culture Concept: Writing and Difference in Realist America. Claudia Stokes is Assistant Professor of English at Trinity University.

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