Research Catalog

Title

Social justice and American literature / editors, Robert C. Hauhart & Jeff Birkenstein, Saint Martin's University, Lacey, Washington.

Publication

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hauhart, Robert C., 1950-
• Birkenstein, Jeff

Description

xxviii, 280 pages; 24 cm

Series Statement

Critical insights

Uniform Title

Critical insights.

Subjects

• American literature
• Social justice in literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• American literature > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

About this volume / Robert C. Hauhart & Jeff Birkenstein -- On social justice in American literature / Robert C. Hauhart & Jeff Birkenstein -- Identities without borders : June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, and the legacy of post-civil rights black feminism / David M. Jones -- Stories of place : Appalachian literature as locus of environmental and social justice / Katherine E. Ledford -- Embattled terrains : the body as the site of social (in)justice in American literature / Ann M. Ciasullo -- Chester Hime's dilemma / Kimberly Drake -- "This is the way that I am" : early indigenous American women's literature / Tabitha A. Morgan -- Port of entry : hidden correspondence by Frederick Douglass to Anna Murray (Douglass) / Katherine Cottle -- Social justice and nineteenth-century realism : William Dean Howells's "A Hazard of new fortunes," / Todd Barosky -- From fugitive slave to Harlem housewife : the "tragic mulatto" in American literature / Cynthia Cravens -- Privilege on the prairie : western expansion in the writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Louise Erdrich / Mária I. Cipriani -- "It gets better" : a short history of feminism, body policing, and women's suicide / Erin Mavis Guydish -- Liberation from family, class, race, culture, and tribe in early Philip Roth / Robert C. Hauhart & Alyssa M. Slate -- The social justice-legal justice cleavage in modern American literature / Almas Khan -- Developing morality by exploring social justice in the works of Walter Dean Myers / Sarah Minslow -- Grand narratives of social justice in Chang-Rae Lee's "Native speaker" and Colson Whitehead's "The intuitionist" / Peter Sloane -- Margaret Atwood and women's dystopic fiction / Jeff Birkenstein & Ericka Manthey.

Call Number

JFE 18-219

ISBN

• 1682175650
• 9781682175651

OCLC

980681505

Title

Social justice and American literature / editors, Robert C. Hauhart & Jeff Birkenstein, Saint Martin's University, Lacey, Washington.

Publisher

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Critical insights

Critical insights.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Hauhart, Robert C., 1950- editor.

Birkenstein, Jeff, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-219