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Author : Lary May
Release : 1989-01-09
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 757/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Recasting America by : Lary May
Download or read book Recasting America written by Lary May. This book was released on 1989-01-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The freshness of the authors' approaches . . . is salutary. . . . The collection is stimulating and valuable."—Joan Shelley Rubin, Journal of American History
Author : Amirhossein Vafa
Release : 2016-12-09
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 695/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Recasting American and Persian Literatures by : Amirhossein Vafa
Download or read book Recasting American and Persian Literatures written by Amirhossein Vafa. This book was released on 2016-12-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading literary and cinematic events between and beyond American and Persian literatures, this book questions the dominant geography of the East-West divide, which charts the global circulation of texts as World Literature. Beyond the limits of national literary historiography, and neocolonial cartography of world literary discourse, the minor character Parsee Fedallah in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851) is a messenger who travels from the margins of the American literature canon to his Persian literary counterparts in contemporary Iranian fiction and film, above all, the rural woman Mergan in Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s novel Missing Soluch (1980). In contention with Eurocentric treatments of world literatures, and in recognition of efforts to recast the worldliness of American and Persian literatures, this book maintains that aesthetic properties are embedded in their local histories and formative geographies.
Author : Barbara Young Welke
Release : 2001-08-13
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 667/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Recasting American Liberty by : Barbara Young Welke
Download or read book Recasting American Liberty written by Barbara Young Welke. This book was released on 2001-08-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through courtroom dramas from 1865 to 1920 - of men forced to jump from moving cars when trainmen refused to stop, of women emotionally wrecked from the trauma of nearly missing a platform or street, and women barred from first class ladies' cars because of the color of their skin - Barbara Welke offers a dramatic reconsideration of the critical role railroads, and streetcars, played in transforming the conditions of individual liberty at the dawn of the twentieth century. The three-part narrative, focusing on the law of accidental injury, nervous shock, and racial segregation in public transit, captures Americans' journey from a cultural and legal ethos celebrating manly independence and autonomy to one that recognized and sought to protect the individual against the dangers of modern life. Gender and race become central to the transformation charted here, as much as the forces of corporate power, modern technology and urban space.
Author : Lary May
Release : 1989-01-09
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 757/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Recasting America by : Lary May
Download or read book Recasting America written by Lary May. This book was released on 1989-01-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The freshness of the authors' approaches . . . is salutary. . . . The collection is stimulating and valuable."—Joan Shelley Rubin, Journal of American History
