Introduction to "Adam Floyd".(LEGACY REPRINT)(Excerpt)

Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......examples of American fiction, Baym points...in canonical American fiction (132-33). Certainly Adam Floyd is an example...male hero in American fiction; he is the complete...Fiction 27). In Adam Floyd, Holmes's message...

Putting the "Jewish" back in "Jewish American fiction": a look at Jewish...

Shofar;  March 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......made his famous statement that Jewish American fiction has probably moved past its high point...reports of the complete demise of Jewish American fiction--such as Leslie Fiedler's lesser known...the turn of the 21st century, Jewish American fiction remains a vital, important, ...

American Talmud: The Cultural Work of Jewish American Fiction.(Book...

American Jewish History;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Talmud: The Cultural Work of Jewish American Fiction. By Ezra Cappell. Albany, NY: State...argument about the place of Jewish American fiction in the larger canon of American literature...concepts (2), so too does the Jewish American fiction under examination in this book celebrate...

Native American Fiction: A User's Manual/The Translation of Dr. Apelles: A...

Studies in American Indian Literatures;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...David Treuer. Native American Fiction: A User's Manual. St. Paul...nonfiction "user's manual" Native American Fiction, however, Treuer has taken...author's note that opens Native American Fiction, Treuer claims his intention...

Confounding Images: Photography and Portraiture in Antebellum American...

The Virginia Quarterly Review;  July 1, 1998 ;     175 words ...Confounding Images: Photography and Portraiture in Antebellum American Fiction, by Susan S. Williams. Confounding Images explores the...descriptions. Through an examination of several pieces of early American fiction, Williams show how pre-Civil War writers responded to this...

Dinarzad's Children: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction

The Middle East Journal;  January 1, 2005 ;     154 words ...Dinarzad's Children: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction, ed. by Pauline Kaldas and Khaled Maatawa. Fayetteville...importance of American feminism in the emergence of Arab American fiction; many of the authors featured in this volume are women...

Elephants in the room.(Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred,...

Twentieth Century Literature;  September 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction by James W. Coleman Baton Rouge: Louisiana...W. Coleman's new study of African American fiction, Faithful Vision: Treatments of the...Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction, strikes me as cause for both ...

Uncivil Rites: American Fiction, Religion, and the Public Sphere.(Review)

Journal of Church and State;  September 22, 1998 ;     433 words ...Uncivil Rites: American Fiction, Religion, and the Public Sphere. By Robert Detweiler. Urbana...beneath, and beyond particular institutions toward seeing in American fiction the difficult, powerful connections between religion and...

Intricate Relations: Sexual and Economic Desire in American Fiction,...

Early American Literature;  September 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Relations: Sexual and Economic Desire in American Fiction, 1789-1814. KAREN A. WEYLER. Iowa...dominated our discussions of early American fiction. And that is as it should be. But...Relations: Sexual and Economic Desire in American Fiction, 1789-1814, is to try to push our...

Imaginary friends: representing Quakers in early American...

Studies in American Fiction;  September 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......of Christianity, Quakers in early American fiction are deployed for our admiration, but...significant way. Notable in early American fiction for their moral superiority, Quakers...Quakers were used as moral exemplars in American fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth...

Hagedorn leads Asian American fiction to new frontier: Author of

International Examiner;  February 1, 1994 ;     516 words ......Examiner 02-01-1994 Hagedorn leads Asian American fiction to new frontier: Author of. "Dogeaters...Chan Is Dead: An Anthology of Asian American Fiction, editor Jessica Hagedorn is hoping...reluctant to use "An Anthology of Asian American Fiction" as the subtitle because it might...

Darryl Dickson-Carr. The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American...

African American Review;  March 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction. New York: Columbia UP, 2005. 280...Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction (CGCAAF 2005) is a highly useful reference...young scholars of contemporary African American fiction. Unlike the distaste of many ...

Latin American fiction steams the windows

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  September 1, 2002 ;     470 words ...00-00-0000 Latin American fiction steams the windows By FABIOLA SANTIAGO, Knight Ridder Newspapers...Editions.=.Sunday !CALIENTE! THE BEST EROTIC WRITING IN LATIN AMERICAN FICTION, edited by J.H. Blair; Berkley, 224 pages, $14. No one does...

American fiction had a heyday in the '70s.

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  January 13, 1999 ;     700+ words ......70s. Why? Because a recent investigation of my notebooks convinces me that the decade of the 1970s was quite fabulous for American fiction, and I don't believe this has been acknowledged or otherwise noted. It's too early to evaluate the inventory of the '90s...

Pauline Kaldas and Khaled Mattawa, eds.: Dinarzad's Children: An Anthology...

International Fiction Review;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction Fayetteville: University of Arkansas...An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction is the first compilation of creative...feature exclusively contemporary Arab-American fiction. Preceded by such anthologies as Grape...