The American Literatures Initiative

Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture by Thomas Heise

Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture

The American Literatures Initiative

Thomas Heise

304 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction literary psychology sociology informative reflective slow-paced
Reading Embodied Citizenship: Disability, Narrative, and the Body Politic by Emily Russell

Reading Embodied Citizenship: Disability, Narrative, and the Body Politic

The American Literatures Initiative

Emily Russell

264 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction literary challenging reflective medium-paced
Troublemakers: Power, Representation, and the Fiction of the Mass Worker by William Scott

Troublemakers: Power, Representation, and the Fiction of the Mass Worker

The American Literatures Initiative

William Scott

288 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction literary informative medium-paced
Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture by Catherine Keyser

Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture

The American Literatures Initiative

Catherine Keyser

242 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction classics history literary informative reflective medium-paced
The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary by Lori Harrison-Kahan

The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary

The American Literatures Initiative

Lori Harrison-Kahan

248 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction literary race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The New Negro in the Old South by Gabriel A. Briggs

The New Negro in the Old South

The American Literatures Initiative

Gabriel A. Briggs

240 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history literary race challenging informative medium-paced
Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism: Narrative Appropriation in American Literature by Jennifer A. Williamson

Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism: Narrative Appropriation in American Literature

The American Literatures Initiative

Jennifer A. Williamson

246 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction literary race
Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature by Emily J. Lordi

Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature

The American Literatures Initiative

Emily J. Lordi

304 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction art gender music race informative reflective medium-paced