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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hauhart, Robert C., 1950- editor.

Birkenstein, Jeff, editor.

Series:

Critical insights.

Critical Insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social justice in literature.

Amercian literature--History and criticism.

Amercian literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 280 pages).

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Incorporated ; Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, [2017]

Summary:

Social Justice and American Literature examines the work of Richard Wright, Amy Lowell, Philip Roth, Kate Chopin and James Baldwin among others. Themes include: gender and feminism; gay writers; Native American, Asian American, and Hispanic/Border writers; Appalachian and socio-economic justice.

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (Gale Virtual Reference Library, viewed June 29, 2019).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781682175668

1682175669

OCLC:

1020319556