American & Canadian Literature Books

New and Published Books

1. The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art

   Performing Identity

   By Caroline Brown

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   This book examines how African-American writers and visual artists interweave icon and inscription in order to re-present the black female body, traditionally rendered alien and inarticulate within Western discursive and visual systems. Brown considers how the writings of Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones,...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
2. Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Culture

   Edited by Robert Gregg, Gary W. McDonogh, Cindy H. Wong

   Series: Encyclopedias of Contemporary Culture

   As a meeting point for world cultures, the USA is characterized by its breadth and diversity. Acknowledging that diversity is the fundamental feature of American culture, this volume is organized around a keen awareness of race, gender, class and space and with over 1,200 alphabetically-arranged...

   Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
3. Intertextual and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cormac McCarthy

   Borders and Crossings

   Edited by Nicholas Monk

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

   This collection offers a fresh approach to the work of Cormac McCarthy, one of the most important contemporary American authors. Essays focus on his work across the genres and/or in constellation with other writers and artists, presenting not only a different "angle" on the work, but setting him...

   Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge
4. Travel and Dislocation in Contemporary American Fiction

   By Aliki Varvogli

   Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

   This book offers a critical study and analysis of American fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It focuses on novels that ‘go outward’ literally and metaphorically, and it concentrates on narratives that take place mainly away from the US’s geographical borders. Varvogli draws on...

   Published October 9th 2011 by Routledge
5. The Western Landscape in Cormac McCarthy and Wallace Stegner

   Myths of the Frontier

   By Megan Riley McGilchrist

   Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

   The western American landscape has always had great significance in American thinking, requiring an unlikely union between frontier mythology and the reality of a fragile western environment. Additionally it has borne the burden of being a gendered space, seen by some as the traditional "virgin...

   Published September 20th 2011 by Routledge
6. The Harlem Renaissance in the American West

   The New Negro's Western Experience

   Edited by Cary D Wintz, Bruce Glasrud

   Series: New Directions in American History

   The Harlem Renaissance, an exciting period in the social and cultural history of the US, has over the past few decades re-established itself as a watershed moment in African American history. However, many of the African American communities outside the urban center of Harlem that participated in...

   Published September 18th 2011 by Routledge
7. Transnationalism and American Serial Fiction

   By Patricia Okker

   Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

   Transnationalism and American Serial Fiction explores the vibrant tradition of serial fiction published in U.S. minority periodicals. Beloved by readers, these serial novels helped sustain the periodicals and communities in which they circulated. With essays on serial fiction published from the...

   Published September 18th 2011 by Routledge
8. From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood

   Children's Literature and the Construction of Canadian Identity

   By Elizabeth Galway

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   As Canada came to terms with its role as an independent nation following Confederation in 1867, there was a call for a literary voice to express the needs and desires of a new country. Children’s literature was one of the means through which this new voice found expression. Seen as a tool for both...

   Published September 13th 2011 by Routledge
9. Ernest Hemingway

   Edited by Henry Claridge

   Series: Critical Assessments of Major Writers

   Few twentieth-century American writers have been as influential as Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961). Whilst contemporaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner may be as widely taught and studied as Hemingway, neither had an influence on other writers—or indeed, the cognate arts—as great as...

   Published September 11th 2011 by Routledge
10. Nature, Class, and New Deal Literature

    The Country Poor in the Great Depression

    By Stephen Fender

    Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

    Working through close rhetorical analysis of everything from fiction and journalism to documents and documentaries, this book looks at how popular memory favors the country Depression over the economic crisis in the nation’s cities and factories. Over eighty years after it happened, the Depression...

    Published August 24th 2011 by Routledge