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the secret life and serious art of Patricia Highsmith
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Schenkar, Joan
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 HIG 2009
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, detectives, Amerikaans, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995). A portrait of the American suspense novelist Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995). Dispensing with the traditional chronological narrative, Schenkar divides her study into themed sections, which crisscross and mirror each other, embodying the themes of doubling and alter egos in Highsmith's work and life.
the life and times of Jessica Mitford
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Brody, Leslie
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 9 MIT 2010 - B
- Thesaurus
- journalisten, schrijvers, politici, communisme, hogere klasse, mensenrechten, Brits, Amerikaans, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Biography of the English author, journalist and political campaigner, Jessica Mitford (1917-1996).
the construction of gender in children's literature
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Lehr, Susan > (ed.)
- Creator
- Huck, Charlotte > (intr.)
- Creator
- Barron, T.A.
- Creator
- Thompson, Deborah L.
- Creator
- Armstrong, Jennifer
- Creator
- [et al.]
- Contributor
- Short, Kathy G.
- Publish Year
- 2001
- Shelfmark
- B2181 - B
- Thesaurus
- kinderliteratuur, Amerikaans, rolgedrag, vrouwbeelden, stereotypering, kinderen, historisch, Verenigde Staten, bundel
- Description
- Diverse perspectives on what it means to be a male or female child in children's literature. Among the authors and illustrators in the collection who talk about the creative process are: Jerry Pinckney, Katherine Paterson, Mem Fox, Gary Paulsen, Virginia Hamilton, Karen Cushman, Andrea Pinkney, Paul Zelinsky and Patricia and Frederick McKissack. These discussions on creativity are interspersed among essays by educators.
from laundryman's daughter to Hollywood legend
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hodges, Graham Russell
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B6483 - B
- Thesaurus
- filmsterren, actrices, Aziatisch, Amerikaans, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Biography of Anna May Wong, (1905-1961) the premier Asian actress in the American cinema, whose Hollywood film career was influenced by discrimination of Asians in the American society. With filmography.
Margaret Mead and the emergence of American cosmopolitanism
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Molloy, Maureen A.
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2008
- Thesaurus
- antropologie, cultuur, biografische gegevens, Amerikaans, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Molloy explores how Margaret Mead (1901-1978), American cultural anthropologist, was influenced by, and influenced, the meanings of American culture. She considers this in relation to Mead’s four popular ethnographies written between the wars ('Coming of age in Samoa', 'Growing up in New Guinea', 'The changing culture of an Indian tribe', and 'Sex and temperament in three primitive societies') and the responses to them.
contemporary narratives of American Jewishness
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Meyers, Helene
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2011 - B
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, Amerikaans, jodendom, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- The author explores what Jewish American literature tells about Jewishness and Jewish difference. She focuses on narratives that portray Jewish regeneration through feminist Orthodoxy, queerness, off-whiteness, and intermarriage. She argues that gendered, sexed and raced debates about Jewish identity become opportunities rather than crises, and signs of creative potential rather than symptoms of assimilation and deracination.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Walsh, Keri > (ed.)
- Creator
- Fitch, Noël Riley > (forew.)
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- FR 9 BEA 2010
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, uitgevers, vertalers, uitgeverijen, boekhandels, bibliotheken, schrijvers, expatriates, interbellum, Engels, Amerikaans, biografische gegevens, Verenigde Staten, Frankrijk, Servië, 20e eeuw, 1900-1949, briefwisseling
- Description
- First collection of the letters of Sylvia Beach (1887-1962), born Nancy Woodbridge Beach, one of the leading figures in Paris' literary circle of English writers during the Interbellum. Beach, founder and proprietor of 'Shakespeare and Company' - the bohemian lending-library and bookstore - left behind a correspondence with major figures, like James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore, Ernest Hemingway, the Fitzgeralds, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Richard Wright, and Alfred Knopf among them.
an American woman's memoir of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Johanyak, Debra
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- NO 9 JOH 2007
- Thesaurus
- leraren, Amerikaans, Iran, Verenigde Staten, 1970-1979, 1980-1989, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Personal account of the author, who was married to an Iranian man, of her experiences in the early days of the Iranian revolution in 1979.
over Amerika, God en de toestand van de wereld
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Albright, Madeleine
- Creator
- Clinton, Bill > (voorw.)
- Creator
- Clinton, William J. > (inl.)
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- VS 6 2006
- Thesaurus
- overheidsbeleid, internationaal, Amerikaans, religie, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- Allbright analyseert de verhouding tussen religie en internationale politiek zowel vanuit de Amerikaanse geschiedenis als vanuit haar eigen politieke ervaring, en bekritiseert het huidige Amerikaanse beleid. Ze pleit voor een doortastend leiderschap dat religieuze rivaliteiten beteugelt en grondslagen legt voor een nieuwe internationale morele consensus. Oorspr. uitgave: The mighty and the almighty: reflections on America, God, and world affairs (2006).
winnaar Nobelprijs voor Literatuur 1938
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Vriesekoop, Bettine
- Publish Year
- 2021
- Shelfmark
- WER 9 BUC 2021
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, pioniers, cultuur, romans, rechtspositie, prijzen, Amerikaans, China, Verenigde Staten, 1890-1899, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, biografie, reisbeschrijving
- Description
- Biografie over de Amerikaanse schrijfster Pearl S. Buck, geboren Sydenstricker (1892-1973), die als dochter van een zendelingenechtpaar de eerste helft van haar leven in China heeft gewoond. Opgroeiend tussen de Chinezen gaf dat haar een unieke blik op het toentertijd in het westen onbekende land. Zij schreef hierover in de roman 'De goede aarde' (1932), waarvoor zij als eerste vrouw de Pulitzerprijs won. In 1935 moest ze als balling terugkeren naar Amerika, waar zij zich na de Tweede Wereldoorlog inzette voor zwarte burgerrechten, rechten voor vrouwen en voor Aziatische kinderen. In 1938 heeft zij als eerste Amerikaanse vrouw de Nobelprijs voor Literatuur gewonnen. Schrijfster en voormalig tafeltennisser en China-correspondeert Bettine Vriesekoop reist in de voetsporen van Buck door China en Amerika.
Russian-American internet romance
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Johnson, Ericka
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- WER 3 2007
- Thesaurus
- gemengde huwelijken, internet, migratie, Russisch, Amerikaans, Rusland, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- Six Russian women who are in search of or have already found husbands describe how they placed listings on the Internet and what they think about their contacts with Western men: their expectations about marriage in the United States and their reasons for wishing to emigrate. Each chapter presents one woman’s story and then links it to a discussion of gender roles, the mail-order bride industry and the economic and social constraints of life in Russia.
feminist critical theory : theorizing the Filipina/American experience
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Jesus, Melinda L. de > (ed,)
- Contributor
- Tadiar, Neferti Xina M.
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- VS 1E 2005
- Thesaurus
- feminisme, identiteit, dekolonisatie, imperialisme, huishoudelijke arbeid, spiritualiteit, rooms-katholicisme, leeftijdsgroepen, vrouwenbewegingen, seksualiteit, internet, schrijvers, wetenschappelijke beroepen, kunstenaressen, tijdschriften, literatuur, etniciteit, historisch, Filipijns, Amerikaans, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- Collection essays of Filipina American feminist cultural criticism by and about Filipina Americans dealing with gender, decolonization, globalization, transnationalism, identity, sexuality, representation, spirituality.
first-generation migrants from islands and peninsulas
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Newton, Pauline T.
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2005
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, Amerikaans, immigranten, vrouwbeelden, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw
- Description
- This study inclueds interviews with six migrant writers, recognizes intersections between restrictive and limiting literary divisions in Caribbean, Asian-American, and ethnic-American narratives, and explores issues of migration and the crossing and (re-)crossing of cultural boundaries. U.S.-American-bound migrant writers, including Judith Ortiz Cofer, Julia Alvarez, Jamaica Kincaid, Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Lan Cao, left their homelands between the mid-1950s and the mid-1970s, examining and expressing their migration experiences, namely, the evolution of their transcultural identities as they make the transition from their island or peninsular homelands to the United States, in diverse literary forms, such as the memoir, the personal narrative, and the novel or other fictional forms.
five modern histories
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Dennison, Sally
- Publish Year
- 1984
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 1984 - B
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, literatuur, uitgeverijen, historisch, Amerikaans, Verenigde Staten, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 20e eeuw
- Description
- The author traces the publishing histories of five writers - amongst them Virginia Woolf and Anais Nin - bringing together the details of their early careers, and demonstrating the effect of alternative publishing on the formation of twentieth-century literature.
utopias and dystopias
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Little, Judith A. > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2007
- Thesaurus
- feministische filosofie, science fiction, schrijvers, gender, socialisatie, vrouwelijkheid, man vrouw verschillen, utopische romans, Amerikaans, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- Using selections from writers like Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Karen Joy Fowler, Ursula K. Le Guin, James Tiptree jr., and many others, this collection shows how the imagined worlds of science fiction create hold experiments for testing feminist hypotheses and for interpreting philosophical questions about humanity, gender, equality and more. Four main themes: Part 1, ‘Human nature and reality’, concentrates on whether there is an intrinsic difference between males and females. Part 2, ‘Dystopias: the worst of all possible worlds’, portrays misogynistic societies uncomfortably familiar to the early 21st-century reader. Part 3, ‘Separatist utopias: worlds of difference’, assembles stories that scrutinize both the virtues and vices of separatism. In Part 4, ‘Androgynous utopias: worlds of equality’, the authors create worlds that anticipate the consequences, good and bad, of perfect sexual equality in education, intelligence, capability, and reproduction.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- Creator
- Gates, Henry Louis > (introd.)
- Creator
- Lemke, Sieglinde > (introd.)
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2008
- Thesaurus
- zwarte schrijvers, Amerikaans, Verenigde Staten, verhalen, bundel
- Description
- The complete stories of the American novelist, folklorist, anthropologist, short story writer Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960).
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Martin, Wendy
- Creator
- Williams, Sharone
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2016 - B
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, literaire stromingen, etniciteit, sociale klasse, cultuur, historisch, Amerikaans, Verenigde Staten, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw
- Description
- This publication considers the literary, historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts of American women authors from the seventeenth century to the present and gives an analysis of current literary trends and debates in women’s literature. The volume examines the ways in which women writers from diverse racial, social, and cultural backgrounds have shaped American literary traditions, giving particular attention to the ways writers worked inside, outside, and around the strictures of their cultural and historical moments to create space for women’s voices and experiences as a vital part of American life.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Zijl, Annejet van der
- Publish Year
- 2015
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 TEW 2015 - B
- Thesaurus
- vorstenhuizen, revoluties, eerste wereldoorlog, tweede wereldoorlog, Amerikaans, Verenigde Staten, Europa, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- In deze biografie wordt het leven van een Amerikaanse prinses, Allene Tew (1872 -1955), gereconstrueerd. Een leven dat zich afspeelt in zowel Amerika als Europa, in de Victoriaanse en de moderne tijd, tijdens de industriële en de Russische revolutie, en de twee wereldoorlogen.
reflections on boundary-busting, border-crossing loose canons
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Allen, Paula Gunn
- Publish Year
- 1998
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 1998 - B
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, Amerikaans, indianen, cultuurverschillen, etniciteit, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw
- Description
- In this collection of political essays, literary criticism and personal reflection, Allen views the boundary where Native American cultures and Western Civilization meet. She criticizes the Western social constructs of proprietorship, literacy, individualism and 'rape culture' contrasted with the communal and sprititual connection to the earth that characterizes native societies, according to the author. She analyses Native American literature of the late twentieth century, including the work of N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko and Mary Tallmountain.