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The Civil War is an event of great cultural significance, impacting upon American literature, film, music, electronic media, the marketplace and public performance. This book takes an innovative approach to this great event in American history, exploring its cultural origins and enduring cultural legacy. It focuses upon the place of the Civil War across the broad sweep of American cultural forms and practices and reveals important links between historical events and contemporary culture.The first chapter introduces a discussion of ante-bellum culture and the part cultural forces played in the sectional crisis that exploded into full-blown war in 1861. Subsequent chapters focus on particular themes, appropriations, interpretations and manifestations of the War as they have appeared in American culture.

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In 1899, U.S. Secretary of State John Hay wrote six world powers calling for an Open Door in China that would guarantee equal trading opportunities, curtail colonial annexation and prevent conflict in the Far East. In an examination of its origins and development, we discover how the idea of the Open Door came to define the American Century.

The first student guide to American autobiographyThis introduction to the major forms of autobiographical writing in America and important current developments in autobiography studies discusses both 'canonised' texts and those from contemporary writers. Taking a broadly chronological approach, the history of American autobiography is explored including the social and cultural factors that might account for the importance of autobiography in American culture. Then post-1970 autobiographies are examined, taking into account the development in poststructuralism from this time that affected notions of the subject who could write, and conceptions of truth, identity and reference.Key Features* Engages in discussions about the 'Americanness' of autobiography, especially in relation to important contemporary issues such as multiculturalism and transnationalism* Acknowledges the problematic nature of the 'canon' of American autobiography* Explores the most exciting recent developments in relation to the self, writing, and autobiography (e.g. poststructuralist thought, the postmodern, the post-colonial, life-writing and genre)* Considers autobiographies from Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Walt Whitman and Gertrude Stein to Maxine Hong Kingston, Lance Armstrong, Lucy Grealy and Barack Obama* Includes study of the Puritan autobiography, the slave narrative, political texts, photography in autobiography, and illness/ disability memoirs

The American Short Story since 1950 offers a reappraisal and contextualisation of a critically underrated genre during a particularly rich period in its history. It offers new readings of important stories by key writers including Flannery O'Connor, John Cheever, Donald Barthelme, Raymond Carver, Lorrie Moore and Grace Paley. These readings are related throughout to the various contexts in which stories are written and published, including creative writing schools, story-writing handbooks, mass market and 'little' magazines.

This analytical introduction assesses contrasting definitions of black nationalism in America, thereby providing an overview of its development and varied manifestations across two centuries.

[headline] Explores the Canada-US border through a variety of theoretical, cultural and literary approaches Moving beyond border studies paradigms dominated by the Mexico-US border, this collection aims to contextualise cultures and communities within a wider global understanding of border thinking. It builds on recent considerations of, and changes to, the cultural life of (and across) the Canada-US border, to prioritise theoretical reflections on representations, identities and policies. Approaching the border as a place, a theory, a practice and a process, this collection draws attention to the ways in which aspects of the Canada-US border itself (re)frame discussions of the borderlands as sites that continue to evoke, invoke and provoke ideas of nation and post nationalism; negotiation and imposition; resistance and refusal. [bios] David Stirrup is Professor of American Literature and Indigenous Studies at the University of Kent, UK. He is the author of Visuality and Visual Aesthetics in Contemporary Anishinaabe Writing (2020) and Louise Erdrich (2010), and co-editor of Tribal Fantasies: Native Americans in the European Imaginary (2012, with James Mackay), Parallel Encounters: Culture at the Canada-US Border (2013, with Gillian Roberts), and Enduring Critical Poses: Beyond Nation and History (2021, with Gordon Henry, Jr. and Margaret Noodin). Jeffrey Orr is Associate Professor of Digital Communication and Associate of the Centre for Global Development at the University of the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada. His research interests include visual rhetoric, border studies, and micro-rhetorical communication. His current research examines the rhetoric of governmental health communication, and public rhetoric pertaining to border policy on the Arctic.

[headline] Explores the Canada-US border through a variety of theoretical, cultural and literary approaches Moving beyond border studies paradigms dominated by the Mexico-US border, this collection aims to contextualise cultures and communities within a wider global understanding of border thinking. It builds on recent considerations of, and changes to, the cultural life of (and across) the Canada-US border, to prioritise theoretical reflections on representations, identities and policies. Approaching the border as a place, a theory, a practice and a process, this collection draws attention to the ways in which aspects of the Canada-US border itself (re)frame discussions of the borderlands as sites that continue to evoke, invoke and provoke ideas of nation and post nationalism; negotiation and imposition; resistance and refusal. [bios] David Stirrup is Professor of American Literature and Indigenous Studies at the University of Kent, UK. He is the author of Visuality and Visual Aesthetics in Contemporary Anishinaabe Writing (2020) and Louise Erdrich (2010), and co-editor of Tribal Fantasies: Native Americans in the European Imaginary (2012, with James Mackay), Parallel Encounters: Culture at the Canada-US Border (2013, with Gillian Roberts), and Enduring Critical Poses: Beyond Nation and History (2021, with Gordon Henry, Jr. and Margaret Noodin). Jeffrey Orr is Associate Professor of Digital Communication and Associate of the Centre for Global Development at the University of the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada. His research interests include visual rhetoric, border studies, and micro-rhetorical communication. His current research examines the rhetoric of governmental health communication, and public rhetoric pertaining to border policy on the Arctic.

An Introduction focusing on the intersections between text and photography in the 20th Century American Photo-Text 1930-1960.