Spotlights
- The Migration Factor in US History from the Civil War Era to the Present
- Topics in American Studies: History, Literature, and Culture 2
- Cricles and Lines
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The Migration Factor in US History from the Civil War Era to the Present
SpotlightRead MoreThis collection of studies aims to provide an overview of the intersection of migration and U.S. history—without claiming to be an exhaustive survey of this very broad field—and represents a well-researched, interesting, and detailed investigation of issues related to the correlation of migration and politics. The prevailing mode of analysis, which explores attitudes, mentalities, and how they shape the political arena, works well and represents a valid historiographical choice on the part of the author. The sections dealing with the United States within the chapter on global border...
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Topics in American Studies: History, Literature, and Culture 2
SpotlightRead MoreThis new volume of AMERICANA eBooks, part of the Szeged Series in American Studies (SZESAS), addresses the issue of US society and culture at the threshold of crisis and healing in a selection of American literary representations. American society and culture has mostly been fragmented along many fracture lines, and the volume offers a collection of essays that focus on literary representations of these. The papers explore a diverse range of texts from highly canonized to almost marginal by interrogating the possibilities of transformation, agency, and the limits to healing. The...
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Cricles and Lines
SpotlightRead MoreThis book traces the journeys at the heart of Ursula K. Le Guin’s (1929-2018) Hainish Cycle—across planets, across identities, across the very boundaries of time—and explores the diverse implications of her protagonists’ voyages, as acts of escape, confrontation, healing, and transformation. Through close readings of The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, The Telling, and the late stories that reflect on and challenge the traditional quest formula, it argues that Le Guin’s characters are frequently denied the possibility of return, and must...
