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  • Alter, Robert  (2)
  • Hobbs, Allyson Vanessa  (1)
  • Geschichte  (3)
  • History  (1)
  • American Studies  (3)
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  • 1
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    A chosen exile : a history of racial passing in American life (2014)
    Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : Harvard Univ. Press
    Details
    ISBN: 9780674368101
    Language: English
    Pages: 382 S. , Ill.
    Edition: 1. print.
    Year of publication: 2014
    DDC: 305.800973
    RVK:
    HU 1728
    RVK:
    MS 3450
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Schwarze. USA ; African Americans / Race identity / History ; Passing (Identity) / History / United States ; Racially mixed people / History / United States ; Exiles / History / United States ; Schwarze ; Ethnische Identität ; USA ; United States / Race relations / History ; USA ; USA ; Schwarze ; Ethnische Identität
    Abstract: Introduction: To live a life elsewhere -- White is the color of freedom -- Waiting on a white man's chance -- Lost kin -- Searching for a new soul in Harlem -- Coming home -- Epilogue: On identity
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 2
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    Book
    Pen of iron : American prose and the King James Bible (2010)
    Princeton, N.J. [u.a.] : Princeton Univ. Press
    Details
    ISBN: 9780691128818 , 0691128812
    Language: English
    Pages: 198 S. , 22 cm
    Year of publication: 2010
    DDC: 810.9/3822
    RVK:
    HI 1475
    RVK:
    HR 1121
    Keywords: Bible Versions ; Authorized ; History ; Bible In literature ; Bible and literature ; American literature History and criticism ; Englisch ; Übersetzung ; Bibel ; Rezeption ; USA ; Prosa ; Geschichte ; Bible ; English ; Versions ; Authorized ; Influence ; Bible ; In literature ; American literature ; History and criticism ; Bible and literature ; Bibel ; Rezeption ; USA ; Roman ; Geschichte ; Literatur
    Abstract: In this book, biblical translator and literary critic Robert Alter traces some of the fascinating ways that American novelists--from Melville, Hemingway, and Faulkner to Bellow, Marilynne Robinson, and Cormac McCarthy--have drawn on the rich stylistic resources of the canonical English Bible to fashion their own strongly resonant styles and distinctive visions of reality. --from publisher description
    Description / Table of Contents: America as a Scriptural cultureStyle in America and the King James version -- Moby-Dick : polyphonu -- Absalom! Absalom! : lexicon -- Seize the day : American amalgam -- The world through parataxis.
    Note: Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 3
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    Defenses of the imagination : Jewish writers and modern historical crisis (1977)
    Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America
    Details
    ISBN: 0827600976
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 262 p , 24 cm
    Edition: 1st ed
    Year of publication: 1977
    DDC: 809.93352
    RVK:
    HG 260
    RVK:
    HU 1520
    Keywords: Jewish authors ; Jews in literature ; Judaism and literature ; Hebrew literature, Modern History and criticism ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Jüdische Literatur ; Geschichte 1900- ; Jüdische Literatur ; Geschichte
    Note: Includes bibliographical references
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