http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://xtf.cdlib.org:8080/xtf/search?docsPerPage%3D100;f6-subject%3DAmerican%20Literature Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;f6-subject=American Literature Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://xtf.cdlib.org:8080/xtf/view?docId=tei/ft2g5004sk/ft2g5004sk.xml This book is intended as a contribution to American cultural history—of the past, the present, and, at least imaginably, the future—with special reference to the Native American component of that history. I assume rather than argue that, in point of historical fact, American culture has had, has now, and will continue to have some relation to Native American culture—although that relation has most frequently been one of avoidance. As a result, most commentators on American culture generally have managed to proceed as though there were no relation between the two, white and red, Euramerican and Native American, as if absence rather than avoidance defined the New World: as if America was indeed "virgin land," empty, uninhabited, silent, dumb until the Europeans brought the plow and the pen to cultivate its wilderness. From the first days of settlement, Americans sought to establish their own sense of American "civilization" in opposition to some centrally significant Other, most particularly to the Indian "sava... http://xtf.cdlib.org:8080/xtf/view?docId=tei/ft2g5004sk/ft2g5004sk.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1989 12:00:00 GMT http://xtf.cdlib.org:8080/xtf/view?docId=tei/ft6p3007r2/ft6p3007r2.xml T.V. Reed urges an affiliation between literary theory and political action - and between political action and literary theory. What can the "new literary theory" learn from "new social movements"; and what can social activists learn from poststructuralism, new historicism, feminist theory, and neomarxism?In strikingly new interpretations of texts in four different genres - Agee and Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Ellison's Invisible Man, Mailer's Armies of the Night, and the ecofeminist Women's Pentagon Actions of the early 1980s - Reed shows how reading literary texts for their political strategies and reading political movements as texts can help us overcome certain rhetorical traps that have undermined American efforts to combat racism, sexism, and economic inequality. http://xtf.cdlib.org:8080/xtf/view?docId=tei/ft6p3007r2/ft6p3007r2.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT