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What American Literature’s Prophetic Voices Tell Us About Ourselves
And how literature could articulate these quandaries, could give me all of this, and more. This essay, like others to follow in this series, maintains that American literature is also imprinted by ...
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10 masterpieces of American literature to read at least once in your life
Our list of ten American books to read - at least! - once in your life. The world of American literature has no shortage of examples of masterpieces that have left their mark on generation after ...
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In the recent Broadway update of the classic American story ... Prynne is one of the great feminist characters in all of literature, says librettist David Mason: full of dignity and courage ...
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The Smithsonian cancelled an Asian American Lit Festival. The organizers kept it going
NPR's Eyder Peralta talks with Regie Cabico, co-organizer of this year's Asian American Literature Festival that's holding events in Washington, D.C., after the Smithsonian cancelled a larger event.
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Building a New Canon of Black Literature
Why had I never heard her name? I’ve been an English professor for nearly two decades, teaching surveys of Black American literature, even seminars focused on Black women writers. Before that ...
Edmund White, acclaimed novelist and pioneer of queer literature, dies at 85
Edmund White, a pioneer of queer literature who broke ground with his semiautobiographical novels chronicling gay life and ...
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Commentary: African American literature matters
The significance of African American literature has never been more profound. This is neither an imaginative nor conspiratorial factoid, especially amid the systematic dismantling of DEI ...
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American Literature and the Catholic Faith
It’s difficult to know where to start or finish in any discussion of the connection between American literature and the Catholic Faith. The whole topic is fraught with complexity, as is the ...
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The Asian American Literature Festival returns — without the Smithsonian
About a year after it was abruptly called off with little explanation, the Asian American Literature Festival will return in September, organized by a collective of literary groups — and this ...
The Bookstore That Helped Create Modern American Literature
According to one academic journal, “No other American bookstore has done more to encourage experimentation in modern ...
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Opinion: F. Willis Johnson: African American literature matters
The significance of African American literature has never been more profound. This is neither an imaginative nor conspiratorial factoid, especially amid the systematic dismantling of DEI ...