1# Library to Find Best eBook for Read
Author : James H. Cone
Release : 1992
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 246/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Martin & Malcolm & America by : James H. Cone
Download or read book Martin & Malcolm & America written by James H. Cone. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reexamines the ideology of the two most prominent leaders of the civil rights movement of the 1960s
Author : James H. Cone
Release : 1991
Genre : African Americans
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 400/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare by : James H. Cone
Download or read book Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare written by James H. Cone. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathryn Hume
Release : 2022-08-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 13X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis American Dream, American Nightmare by : Kathryn Hume
Download or read book American Dream, American Nightmare written by Kathryn Hume. This book was released on 2022-08-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this celebration of contemporary American fiction, Kathryn Hume explores how estrangement from America has shaped the fiction of a literary generation, which she calls the Generation of the Lost Dream. In breaking down the divisions among standard categories of race, religion, ethnicity, and gender, Hume identifies shared core concerns, values, and techniques among seemingly disparate and unconnected writers including T. Coraghessan Boyle, Ralph Ellison, Russell Banks, Gloria Naylor, Tim O'Brien, Maxine Hong Kingston, Walker Percy, N. Scott Momaday, John Updike, Toni Morrison, William Kennedy, Julia Alvarez, Thomas Pynchon, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Don DeLillo. Hume explores fictional treatments of the slippage in the immigrant experience between America's promise and its reality. She exposes the political link between contemporary stories of lost innocence and liberalism's inadequacies. She also invites us to look at the literary challenge to scientific materialism in various searches for a spiritual dimension in life. The expansive future promised by the American Dream has been replaced, Hume finds, by a sense of tarnished morality and a melancholy loss of faith in America's exceptionalism. American Dream, American Nightmare examines the differing critiques of America embedded in nearly a hundred novels and points to the source for recovery that appeals to many of the authors.
Author : Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson
Release : 2012
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 233/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dreams and Nightmares by : Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson
Download or read book Dreams and Nightmares written by Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Compares the lives and civil rights views of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X"--OCLC
Author : Mark Osteen
Release : 2013-01-30
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 325/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Nightmare Alley by : Mark Osteen
Download or read book Nightmare Alley written by Mark Osteen. This book was released on 2013-01-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic film noir offers more than pesky private eyes and beautiful bad girls—it explores the quest for the not-so-attainable American dream. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL Desperate young lovers on the lam (They Live by Night), a cynical con man making a fortune as a mentalist (Nightmare Alley), a penniless pregnant girl mistaken for a wealthy heiress (No Man of Her Own), a wounded veteran who has forgotten his own name (Somewhere in the Night)—this gallery of film noir characters challenges the stereotypes of the wise-cracking detective and the alluring femme fatale. Despite their differences, they all have something in common: a belief in self-reinvention. Nightmare Alley is a thorough examination of how film noir disputes this notion at the heart of the American Dream. Central to many of these films, Mark Osteen argues, is the story of an individual trying, by dint of hard work or, more often, illicit enterprises, to overcome his or her origins and achieve material success. In the wake of World War II, the noir genre tested the dream of upward mobility and the ideas of individualism, liberty, equality, and free enterprise that accompany it. Employing an impressive array of theoretical perspectives (including psychoanalysis, art history, feminism, and music theory) and combining close reading with original primary source research, Nightmare Alley proves both the diversity of classic noir and its potency. This provocative and wide-ranging study revises and refreshes our understanding of noir's characters, themes, and cultural significance.
