Anthologies: general

Millions of Suns is an open invitation for all writers to create something new.

ALONE TOGETHER: Love, Grief, and Comfort During the Time of COVID-19 is a collection of essays, poems, and interviews to serve as a lifeline for negotiating how to connect and thrive during this stressful time of isolation as well as a historical perspective that will remain relevant for years to come.

Seminar paper from the year 2023 in the subject American Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Bamberg, language: English, abstract: "e;Lives of the Monster Dogs (Monster Dogs)"e; by Kirsten Bakis tells the tale of a unique breed of dogs created by a reclusive and deranged scientist, Augustus Rank, under the employ of power-hungry German royalty.

Examination Thesis from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: EXPOSE It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today.

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,0, University of Potsdam, language: English, abstract: 1.

Joy (Or Something Darker, but Like It), the first book of nonfiction by poet Nathaniel Perry, is a group of essays that considers poetry in the context of parenting-what poems and poets might teach us about parenting, what parenting might teach us about poetry, and also, what either of those things might have to teach us about simply being a relatively successful human being.

From 1898 until World War II, U.

As tourists increasingly moved across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a surprising number of communities looked to capitalize on the histories of Native American people to create tourist attractions.

This volume of distinguished stories and poems brings together a number of writers who have either taught or studied at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro during the past thirty years.

With full attention to the classical, medievel, and Renaissance traditions that constituted the milieu in which Milton wrote, Lieb explores the sacral basis of Miltons thought.

In 1948, journalist Ray Sprigle traded his whiteness to live as a black man for four weeks.

In this collection of nine essays, a group of internationally known classicists examine from a variety of viewpoints the speeches that Thucydides inserted into the history of the Peloponnesian War.

This is the first collection in book form of a number of Boyds short stories.

This new collection of short stories centers exclusively on North Carolina and contains fifteen stories by fifteen authors.

This collection of diverse pieces excerpts from novels, essays, poems, historical records, and newspaper and magazine articles is a warm and interesting summing-up of North Carolina.

Forcibly removed from their homes in the late 1830s, Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians brought their African-descended slaves with them along the Trail of Tears and resettled in Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma.

Diverse in their languages and customs, the Native American peoples of the Great Lakes region-the Miamis, Ho-Chunks, Potawatomis, Ojibwas, and many others-shared a tumultuous history.

Gene Logsdon's The Man Who Created Paradise is a message of hope at a time when the very concept of earth stewardship is under attack.

In August 1986, Alice Auma, a young Acholi woman in northern Uganda, proclaiming herself under the orders of a Christian spirit named Lakwena, raised an army called the "e;Holy Spirit Mobile Forces.

In the fictional East African Kwatee Republic of the 1990s, the dictatorship is about to fall, and the nation's exiles are preparing to return.

In Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean, Adrian Blevins and Karen Salyer McElmurray collect essays from today's finest established and emerging writers with roots in Appalachia.

By November 1822, the British reading public had already voraciously consumed both Walter Scott's expensive novels and Rudolf Ackermann's exquisite lithographs.

Every River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio includes some of the best regional poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from forty contemporary writers, both established and up-and-coming.

The helmet-shaped mapiko masks of Mozamxadbique have garnered admiration from African art scholars and collectors alike, due to their striking aesthetics and their grotesque allure.

Africa has emerged as a prime arena of global health interventions that focus on particular diseases and health emergencies.

The history of Cincinnati runs much deeper than the stories of hogs that once roamed downtown streets.

Meredith Sue Willis's Out of the Mountains is a collection of thirteen short stories set in contemporary Appalachia.

There are many collections of African oral traditions, but few as carefully organized as The Uncoiling Python.

At the height of the Nazi extermination campaign in the Warsaw Ghetto, a young Jewish woman, Irena, seeks the protection of her former lover, a young architect, Jan Malecki.

The winning manuscript of the fourth annual Hollis Summers Poetry Prize is also the exciting American debut by a poet who has already established himself as an important international poetic voice.

Polish emigres have written poignantly about the pain of exile in letters, diaries, and essays; others, more recently, have recreated Polish-American communities in works of fiction.

At midcentury, two distinct Polish immigrant groups-those Polish Americans who were descendants of economic immigrants from the turn of the twentieth century and the Polish political refugees who chose exile after World War II and the communist takeover in Poland-faced an uneasy challenge to reconcile their concepts of responsibility toward the homeland.

Once or twice in a generation a poet comes along who captures the essential spirit of the American Midwest and gives name to the peculiar nature that persists there.

Each of the realistic worlds Billy Kahora brings us in the short stories and novella that make up The Cape Cod Bicycle War and Other Stories explores the tensions and transitions of characters moving between youthful folly and a precarious adulthood.

In Solving for X, his award-winning collection of new poems, Robert B.

From the Gibson Girl to the flapper, from the vamp to the New Woman, Carolyn Kitch traces mass media images of women to their historical roots on magazine covers, unveiling the origins of gender stereotypes in early-twentieth-century American culture.

Samba is Brazils national rhythm, the foremost symbol of its culture and nationhood.

Seen as a land of sunshine and opportunity, the Golden State was a mecca for the postWorld War II generation, and dreams of the California good life came to dominate the imagination of many Americans in the 1950s and 1960s.

North Carolinas Paul Green (18941981) was part of that remarkable generation of writers who first brought southern writing to the attention of the world.

Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club paints a vivid, fascinating portrait of a community deeply grounded in tradition and dynamically engaged in the present.

In Dragging Wyatt Earp essayist Robert Rebein explores what it means to grow up in, leave, and ultimately return to the iconic Western town of Dodge City, Kansas.

New Stories from the Midwest presents a collection of stories that celebrate an American region too often ignored in discussions about distinctive regional literature.

How to live with difference-not necessarily in peace, but with resilience, engagement, and a lack of vitriol-is a defining worry in America at this moment.

Anais Nin made her reputation through publication of her edited diaries and the carefully constructed persona they presented.

The seventeen narratives of The Common Lot and Other Stories, published in popular magazines across the United States between 1908 and 1921 and collected here for the first time, are driven by Emma Bell Miles's singular vision of the mountain people of her home in southeastern Tennessee.

Not Out of Hate-published in Burmese in 1955 and set in 1939-42-was Ma Ma Lay's fifth novel and one that further cemented her status as one of twentieth-century Burma's foremost writers and voices for change.

The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba offers readers a selection of folktales infused with riddles, proverbs, songs, myths, and legends, using various narrative techniques that capture the vibrancy of Beba oral traditions.

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Department of English and American Studies), course: HS Europe's Dream of America/America's Dream of Europe, language: English, abstract: Within the scope of my thesis, I would like to examine the impact of American popular culture on the German Sector and the later German Democratic Republic, as well as its reception by officials and the civilian population.

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Dusseldorf "e;Heinrich Heine"e;, course: Hauptseminar "e;20th Century American Short Stories"e;, language: English, abstract: Preface: Defining the topicIn literature, just like in reality, gifted children may differ from each other in every aspect except for the very existence of a special talent or very high intelligence.

Diploma Thesis from the year 2001 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: Good, University of Vienna (Anglistics-American Studies), language: English, abstract: When during the 1980s short novels like Jay McInerney's 'Bright Lights, Big City' (1984), Bret Easton Ellis' 'Less Than Zero' (1985), Tama Janowitz' 'Slaves of New York' (1986) or Michael Chabon's 'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh' (1988) became talked-about bestsellers in short succession, conservative critics were shocked.