LITERARY CRITICISM / American

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

Thai American literature, despite enriching the field’s heterogeneity, remains an understudied branch of Asian American literature. This study investigates Sightseeing, a collection of short stories by Rattawut Lapcharoensap, as a representative of Thai American texts, focusing on how Thainess is represented to Western readers. Through the framework of Asian American criticism, this literary work moves beyond the th…

Reference · Wikidata

American literary journal

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

The Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism is awarded for literary criticism by the University of Iowa on behalf of the Truman Capote Literary Trust. The award is regarded as the Pulitzer Prize of Literary Criticism. The value of the award is US$30,000, and is said to be the largest annual cash prize for literary criticism in the English language. The formal name of the prize is the Truman Capote Award for Liter…

Book · DOAB

This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenth-century African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from ecocriticism, African American studies, and Foucauldian theory, Matthias Klestil examines forms of environmental knowledge in African American writing ranging from antebellum slave narratives and pamphlets to Charlotte Forten’s journals, Booker T. Washington’s autobiographies, an…

Full text · Open Library

A reprint of Henry James' "The America" that includes a textual history of the novel, background and source materials, and critical articles by James and others.

Image · DPLA