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Nepantla familias : an anthology of Mexican American literature on families in between worlds / by Troncoso, Sergio,1961-editor.(CARDINAL)813824;
Includes bibliographical references.Introduction / Sergio Troncoso -- Nonfiction: Here, there / David Dorado Romo -- Life as Crossing Borders / Sergio Troncoso -- Losing my Mother Tongue / Reyna Grande -- Día de Muertos / Stephanie Elizondo Griest -- Calle Martín de Zavala / Francisco Cantú -- The Wonder Woman T-Shirt / Rigoberto González -- In(toxic)ated Masculinity / Alex Espinoza -- Piacularis / Domingo Martinez -- All the Pretty Ponies / Oscar Cásares -- Nobody's Favorite / Lorraine M. López -- Elote Man / David Dominguez -- Paco / Stephanie Li -- The Hole in the House / Sheryl Luna -- Letter to the Student Who Asks Me How I Managed to Do It / José Antonio Rodríguez -- Poetry: The Last Time I Went to Church / José Antonio Rodríguez -- Duty / Sheryl Luna -- Self-Portrait in the Year of the Dog / Deborah Paredez -- Why You Never Get in a Fight in Elementary School / Octavio Quintanilla -- Jarcería Shop / Sandra Cisneros -- Garden of Gethsemane / Diana Marie Delgado -- You're tired of your life / Octavio Quintanilla -- The Soul / Diana Marie Delgado -- Fiction : Dutiful Daughter / Diana López -- Melancholy Baby / Severo Perez -- Mundo Means World / Octavio Solis -- Border as Womb Emptied of Night and Swallows / ire'ne lara silva -- Family Unit / Rubén Degollado -- The Surprise Trancazo / Helena María Viramontes -- Mujeres Matadas / Daniel Chacón -- The Astronaut / Matt Mendez -- About the Editor -- About the Contributors."Nepantla Familias brings together Mexican American narratives that explore and negotiate the many permutations of living in between different worlds: how the authors or their characters create or fail to create, a cohesive identity amid the contradictions in their lives. Nepantla or living in the inbetween space of the borderland is the focus of this anthology. The essays, poems, and short stories explore the in-between moments in Mexican American life: the family dynamics of living between traditional and contemporary worlds, between Spanish and English, between cultures with traditional and shifting identities. In times of change, family values are either adapted or discarded in the quest for self-discovery, part of the process of selecting and composing elements of a changing identity. Nepantla is the quintessential American experience that revives important foundational values through immigrants and the children of immigrants. Here readers will find a glimpse of contemporary Mexican American experience; here, also, readers will experience complexities of the geographic, linguistic, and cultural borders common to us all"--
Subjects: Essays.; Poetry.; Short stories.; Mexican Americans; Mexican Americans; Mexican American families.; Mexican American families; Mexican Americans in literature.; Group identity in literature.;
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Consumption and identity in Asian American coming-of-age novels / by Ho, Jennifer Ann,1970-;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-196) and index.Consuming Asian American history in Frank Chin's Donald Duk -- To eat, to buy, to be : consumption as identity in Lois Ann Yamanaka's Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers -- Feeding the spirit : mourning for the mother(land) in Lan Cao's Monkey Bridge and Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman -- Fusion creations in Gus Lee's China Boy and Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land.
Subjects: American fiction; Asian Americans in literature.; Asian Americans; Bildungsromans, American; Consumption (Economics) in literature.; Food habits in literature.; Group identity in literature.; Identity (Psychology) in literature.;
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Souvenirs of the old South : Northern tourism and Southern mythology / by McIntyre, Rebecca Cawood.(CARDINAL)308419;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-207) and index.I. The South as American- 1840-1860 -- 1. Saratoga! Fiddlesticks!: Mineral Springs and Picturesque Scenery -- II. Reconstructing a Southern Landscape- 1870-1890 -- 2. A Shadow of Romance: Nostalgia in the Mountain South -- 3. Streamers of Funereal Moss: Gothicizing the Southern Swamps -- III. African Americans in the Tourist Landscape- 1870-1920 -- 4. True Relics of the Old South: Slave Stereotypes and Tourism -- IV. Solidifying the Old South- 1890-1920 -- 5. The Biloxi Fever Leisure and Laziness in the Tourist Landscape -- 6. The Flavor of Other Days: Aristocracy and Tourism -- Conclusion.Less than a decade after the conclusion of the Civil War, northern promoters began pushing images of a mythic South to boost tourism. By creating a hierarchical relationship based on region and race in which northerners were always superior, promoters saw tourist dollars begin flowing southward, but this cultural construction was damaging to southerners, particularly African Americans. Rebecca McIntyre focuses on the years between 1870 and 1920, a period framed by the war and the growth of automobile tourism. These years were critical in the creation of the South?s modern identity, and she reveals that tourism images created by northerners for northerners had as much effect on making the South "southern" as did the most ardent proponents of the Lost Cause. She also demonstrates how northern tourism contributed to the worsening of race relations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Subjects: Tourism; Brochures; Travel in literature.; Group identity; Stereotypes (Social psychology);
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Shadow and shelter : the swamp in southern culture / by Wilson, Anthony,1975-(CARDINAL)276057;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-203) and index.The swamp and antebellum southern identity -- The southern swamp in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and beyond -- The swamp in the twentieth-century South -- The swamp in the postmodern South : conservation, simulation, and commodification.
Subjects: Group identity; Swamps; Swamps in literature.; American literature; Swamps; Swamp ecology;
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The American Bible : how our words unite, divide, and define a nation / by Prothero, Stephen R.(CARDINAL)209614;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-510) and index.Genesis. The Exodus story ; John Winthrop: "A model of Christian charity" (1630) ; Thomas Paine: Common sense (1776) ; The Declaration of Independence (1776) ; Noah Webster: The blue-back speller (1783- ) -- Law. The Constitution (1787) ; Brown v. Board of Education (1954) ; Roe v. Wade (1973) -- Chronicles. Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's cabin (1852) ; Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) ; Ayn Rand: Atlas shrugged (1957) -- Psalms. Francis Scott Key: "The star-spangled banner" (1814) -- Irving Berlin : "God bless America" (1938) ; Woody Guthrie: "This land is your land" (1940) -- Proverbs. Benjamin Franklin: "Remember that time is money" (1748) ; Benjamin Franklin: "God helps those who help themselves" (1758) ; Patrick Henry : "Give me liberty or give me death" (1775) ; Abigail Adams: "Remember the ladies" (1776) ; Sojourner Truth: "Ain't I a woman?" (1851) ; Abraham Lincoln: "With malice toward none, with charity for all" (1865) ; Chief Joseph : "I will fight no more forever" (1877) ; Calvin Coolidge: "The business of America is business" (1925) ; Franklin Delano Roosevelt: "I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people" (1932) ; John F. Kennedy: "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country" (1962) ; Ronald Reagan: "evil empire" (1983) -- Prophets. Henry David Thoreau: "Civil Disobedience" (1849) ; Dwight Eisenhower: Farewell Address (1961) ; Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I have a dream" (1963) ; Malcolm X: The autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) -- Lamentations. Abraham Lincoln: Gettysburg address (1863) ; Maya Lin: Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1982) -- Gospels. Thomas Jefferson: First inaugural address (1801) ; Franklin Delano Roosevelt: First inaugural address (1933) ; Ronald Reagan: "The speech" (1964) -- Acts. The Pledge of Allegiance (1892, 1954) -- Epistles. George Washington: Farewell address (1796) ; Thomas Jefferson: "Letter to the Danbury Baptists" (1802) ; Martin Luther King Jr.: "Letter from Birmingham jail" (1963)."America has been a nation that has unfolded as much on the page and the podium as on battlefields or in statehouses. Here Stephen Prothero reveals which texts continue to generate controversy and drive debate. He then puts these voices into conversation, tracing how prominent leaders and thinkers of one generation have commented upon the core texts of another, and invites readers to join in. Prothero takes the reader into the heart of America's culture wars. These 'scriptures' provide the words that continue to unite, divide, and define Americans today."--Book jacket.
Subjects: National characteristics, American.; Speeches, addresses, etc., American; National characteristics, American, in literature.; Rhetoric; Literature and society; Language and culture; Nationalism and literature; Group identity in literature.;
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Blood & irony : Southern white women's narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937 / by Gardner, Sarah E.(CARDINAL)267422;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-336) and index.Everywoman her own historian -- Pen and ink warriors, 1861-1865 -- Countrywomen in captivity, 1865-1877 -- A view from the mountain, 1877-1895 -- The imperative of historical inquiry, 1895-1905 -- Righting the wrongs of history, 1905-1915 -- Moderns confront the Civil War, 1916-1936 -- Everything that rises must converge.
Subjects: Personal narratives.; Group identity; American literature; Women and literature; Group identity in literature.;
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Blood and irony : Southern white women's narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937 / by Gardner, Sarah E.(CARDINAL)267422;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-336) and index.Everywoman her own historian -- Pen and ink warriors, 1861-1865 -- Countrywomen in captivity, 1865-1877 -- A view from the mountain, 1877-1895 -- The imperative of historical inquiry, 1895-1905 -- Righting the wrongs of history, 1905-1915 -- Moderns confront the Civil War, 1916-1936 -- Everything that rises must converge."In fiction, diaries, biographies, personal papers, educational texts, historical writings, and through the work of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, southern white women sought to tell and preserve what they considered to be the truth about the war. In doing so, they shaped the myth of the Lost Cause and tried to restore dignity and valor to the public image of the South. Women worked both independently and in concert, and Gardner reveals a strong community of Confederate women who were conscious of their shared effort to define a new and compelling vision of the southern war experience." "Gardner's reading of a wide range of published and unpublished texts recovers a multifaceted vision of the South. For example, during the war, while its outcome was not yet a foregone conclusion, women's writings sometimes reflected loyalty and optimism; at other times, they revealed doubts and a wavering resolve. According to Gardner, it was only in the aftermath of defeat that a more unified vision of the southern cause emerged. By the beginning of the twentieth century, however, white women - who remained deeply loyal to their southern roots - were raising fundamental questions about the meaning of southern womanhood in the modern era."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Personal narratives.; Group identity; American literature; Women and literature; Group identity in literature.;
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Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the politics of representative identity / by Levine, Robert S.(Robert Steven),1953-(CARDINAL)636939;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-303) and index.1710L
Subjects: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.; Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.; Delany, Martin Robison, 1812-1885.; Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.; North star (Rochester, N.Y.); American prose literature; African Americans in literature.; Politics and literature; Group identity in literature.; Slavery in literature.;
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One homogeneous people : narratives of white southern identity, 1890-1920 / by Brown, Trent,1965-(CARDINAL)302708;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-220) and index.The road to a closed society : Mississippi politics and the language of white Southern identity -- Manhood, family, and white identity in Thomas Nelson Page's "Marse Chan" and Thomas W. Dixon's The leopard's spots -- "The South is a single, homogeneous people" : canonizing Southern history and literature -- "Mississippi's giant house party" : whiteness and community at the Neshoba County Fair.
Subjects: Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922.; Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 1864-1946.; White people; Group identity; Race awareness; White people in literature.; American fiction;
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Knickerbocker : the myth behind New York / by Bradley, Elizabeth L.,1973-(CARDINAL)492892;
Subjects: Chronologies.; Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.; Irving, Washington, 1783-1859; Irving, Washington, 1783-1859; Group identity; City and town life; Dutch;
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