Book by Kinneavy, James L., McCleary, William J., Nakadate, Neil

Writing in the Liberal Arts Tradition

Reference

Kinneavy, James L.

Nakadate, Neil

McCleary, William J.

Words, Language & Grammar

Harpercollins College Div

During World War II, 110,000 Japanese Americans were removed from their homes and incarcerated by the US government. In Looking After Minidoka the "internment camp" years become a prism for understanding three generations of Japanese American life, from immigration to the end of the twentieth century. Nakadate blends history, poetry, rescued memory, and family stories in an American narrative of hope and disappointment, language and education, employment and social standing, prejudice and pain, communal values and personal dreams.

Looking After Minidoka: An American Memoir (Break Away Books)

Biographies & Memoirs

Bakopoulos, Dean

Percy, Ben

Community & Culture

Indiana University Press

A catalog raisonné. Contains a list of major writings by Robert Penn Warren, 1929-1977, with only title and date of publication given, then the main body of the book, concerning writings about Robert Penn Warren, 1925-1975. These are divided by books and shorter writings, are discussed in chronological order, and contain a summary of the review, article or paper as well as the usual bibliographical material. Introduction by the author, checklist of dissertations and theses about Warren and his work, index. xxii, 396, 2 pages. cloth.. 8vo..

Robert Penn Warren, a Reference Guide (Reference Publication in Literature)

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

G.K. Hall

A study of the fiction of Jane Smiley. It provides close readings and presents an account of the connections between Smiley's life and her work. It also examines her intellectual interests, her social and philosophical concerns, and her penchant for taking up different creative challenges.

Understanding Jane Smiley (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

University of South Carolina Press

This fully updated edition of the only book-length study of Jane Smiley serves as a comprehensive survey of the innovative author's literary career in relation to her social, intellectual, and creative convictions. Smiley's fiction ranges in setting from medieval Greenland to an Iowa farm to Hollywood and in subject matter from Thoroughbred racing to the savings and loan scandal to contemporary domestic life. A sense of common trajectory and coherence emerges from a focus on the author's ongoing themes―including those of family, environmental integrity, social institutions, economic and political dynamics, and the efforts of women to establish their identities in a harsh and often unreceptive world. In paying due attention to such issues and interactions, Neil Nakadate also explores the boundaries of Smiley's critical intelligence, which ranges adventurously across numerous topics and disciplines and stems from a host of literary influences. To that end Nakadate notes Smiley's affinity with Austen, Dickens, Woolf, and others, but he also makes clear that her evolving realist's vision is insistently contemporary. In the spirit of Updike and DeLillo, Smiley provides fresh insights into the ethos and direction of American life as generations succeed each other and the twenty-first century begins to take shape. Nakadate's study is organized around close readings of Smiley's major fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Thousand Acres. Nakadate also examines her key essays and nonfiction as a means of adding an additional perspective on her novels. The volume's updated biographical material benefits from an unpublished interview conducted with Smiley in 2008, and the citations and extensive bibliography have also been updated, making this new edition an ideal point of entrance for readers eager to understand Smiley's complete body of work.

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