First, two more from this AmericanStudier: the edited collection Storytelling,
History, and the Postmodern South (edited by Jason Phillips).
And my friend Sari Edelstein’s Between the Novel
and the News: The Emergence of American Women’s Writing (2014).
The great poet Charles Bane Jr. shares Arthur Schlesinger, Sr.’s The Birth of a
Nation: A
Portrait of the American People on the Eve of Independence.
Craig Carey highilghts Alan Trachtenberg’s The Incorporation
of America and James Livingston’s Pragmatism and
the Political Economy of Cultural Evolution.
Luke Dietrich reiterates Trachtenberg, and adds Amy Kaplan’s The Anarchy of
Empire in the
Making of U.S. Culture, Gloria
Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La
Frontera, and Philip Deloria’s Indians in Unexpected Places.
Todd Parry notes that Charlotte Biltekoff’s Eating Right in America: The Cultural
Politics of Food and Health “is insightful
and very cleverly written.”
Adam Golub highlights Louis
Menand’s The Metaphysical
Club and Albert Murray’s The Omni-Americans:
Black Experience and American Culture.
For more creative works, Matt Cogswell mentions American Horror
Story and Quintin Burks goes with One Hundred Years
of Solitude; while Ian James notes, “I found Noah to be a very interesting film that made
me think. Not only was it a compelling new take on the classic story that
featured the human struggle with personal morality, but it prompted an inner
discussion in my mind about storytelling as well.”
Next series starts Monday,
Ben
PS. Any other new (or classic) AmericanStudies books you’d highlight?
No comments:
Post a Comment