Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
About the Book Series
This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics in American Literature and Culture.
Posthumanism in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: Matter That Complains So
1st Edition
By Andrew Hicks
May 31, 2023
Posthumanism in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: Matter That Complains So re-examines the prevailing critical consensus that Kurt Vonnegut was a humanist writer. While more difficult elements of his work have often been the subject of scholarly attention, the tendency amongst critics writing on ...
Pragmatism and Poetic Agency: The Persistence of Humanism
1st Edition
By Ulf Schulenberg
May 31, 2023
Pragmatism is a humanist philosophy. In spite of the much-debated renaissance of pragmatism, however, a detailed discussion of the relationship between pragmatism and humanism is still a desideratum. It is difficult to understand the complexity of pragmatism without considering the significance of ...
Racism and Xenophobia in Early Twentieth-Century American Fiction: When a House is Not a Home
1st Edition
By Wisam Abughosh Chaleila
May 31, 2023
"The Melting Pot," "The Land of The Free," "The Land of Opportunity." These tropes or nicknames apparently reflect the freedom and open-armed welcome that the United States of America offers. However, the chronicles of history do not complement that image. These historical happenings have not often...
Rethinking Fiction after the 2007/8 Financial Crisis: Consumption, Economics, and the American Dream
1st Edition
By Mirosław Aleksander Miernik
May 31, 2023
This book provides insight into the impact the 2007/8 financial crisis and subsequent Great Recession had on American fiction. Employing an interdisciplinary approach which combines literary studies with anthropology, economics, sociology, and psychology, the author attempts to gauge the changes ...
Trauma and Fictions of the "War on Terror": Disrupting Memory
1st Edition
By Sarah O'Brien
May 31, 2023
This book explores the ways in which transnational fiction in the post-9/11 era can intervene in discourse surrounding the "war on terror" to advocate for marginalised perspectives. Trauma and Fictions of the "War on Terror" conceptualises global political discourse about the "war on terror" as ...
From Subjection to Survival: The Artistry of American Women Writers
1st Edition
By Molly J. Freitas
December 23, 2022
From Subjection to Survival is a work of feminist scholarship that works at the intersection of literature and art history, the written and the visual. By examining six important and diverse multiethnic American women writers of the twentieth century (Kate Chopin, Anzia Yezierska, Edith Wharton, ...
Articulations of Resistance: Transformative Practices in Contemporary Arab-American Poetry
1st Edition
By Sirène H. Harb
December 13, 2021
Using a theoretical framework located at the intersection of US ethnic studies, transnational studies, and postcolonial studies, Articulations of Resistance: Transformative Practices in Contemporary Arab-American Poetry maps an interdisciplinary model of critical inquiry to demonstrate the intimate...
In Defense of Dialogue: Reading Habermas and Postwar American Literature
1st Edition
By Monika Gehlawat
December 13, 2021
In Defense of Dialogue: Reading Habermas and Postwar American Literature offers a timely investigation of the value of dialogue in contemporary American culture. Using Jürgen Habermas’s theory of communicative action to read the work of Frank O’Hara, James Baldwin, Grace Paley, and Andy Warhol, In ...
Poetic Encounters in the Americas: Remarkable Bridge
1st Edition
By Peter Ramos
December 13, 2021
Poetic Encounters in the Americas: Remarkable Bridge examines the ways in which U.S. and Latin American modernist canons have been in cross-cultural, mutually enabling conversation, especially through the act of literary translation. Examining eighteen U.S. and Latin American poets, my book is one ...
Spectres from the Past: Slavery and the Politics of "History" in West African and African-American Literature
1st Edition
By Portia Owusu
December 13, 2021
Spectres from the Past: The "History" of Slavery in West African and African-American Narratives examines the merit of the claim that West African writers, in comparison to African-Americans authors, deliberately expunge the history of slavery from literary narratives. The book explores slavery in ...
Transnational Politics in the Post-9/11 Novel
1st Edition
By Joseph Conte
December 13, 2021
Transnational Politics in the Post-9/11 Novel suggests that literature after September 11, 2001 reflects the shift from bilateral nation-state politics to the multilateralism of transnational politics. While much of the criticism regarding novels of 9/11 tends to approach these works through ...
Trauma, Gender and Ethics in the Works of E.L. Doctorow
1st Edition
By María Ferrández San Miguel
December 13, 2021
This project approaches four of E. L. Doctorow’s novels—Welcome to Hard Times (1960), The Book of Daniel (1971), Ragtime (1975), and City of God (2000)—from the perspectives of feminist criticism and trauma theory. The study springs from the assumption that Doctorow’s literary project is eminently ...