The Hispanic absence in the North American literary canon

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Issues concerning the role of Hispanic American literature in the North American literary canon are examined, focusing on an argument that Hispanic American writers have made an indispensable contribution to the literary canon. Topics include the work of such writers as Rosario Ferre, Sandra Cisneros, and Cristina Garcia; the mestizo aspect of all American literature; and the political history of the US as depicted in Hispanic American literature.

Portrayals, Literature, Hispanic Americans, Ethnicity

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Winning the peace: American planning for a profitable post-war world

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Issues concerning the influence government, advertising, and magazine publishing had upon each other in the period following World War II are examined. Topics include the manner in which advertising helped the war campaign, corporate plans for economic expansion after the war, demand for consumer goods, the role of magazines in advertising, and social changes, such as the increase in marriage rate in the 1940s.

Statistical Data Included, History, Influence, Periodical publishing, Advertising, 20th century AD, World War II, 1939-1945, United States history, United States history, 1945-

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Missing intertexts: Hannah Crafts's The Bondwoman's Narrative and African American literary history

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The Bondwoman's Narrative has a major event in the field of African American studies as the novel is devoted to evaluating Hannah Craft's use of the conventions of the slave narrative, of nineteenth-century women's writing. The impact of Charles Dicken's Bleak House on The Bondwoman's Narrative is also assessed.

Criticism and interpretation, Works, American literature, African American literature, The Bondwoman's Narrative (Novel), Slave narratives, Craft, Hannah

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