Considering America from inside and out
Subtitle: a San José/Ostrava dialogue sharing perspectives
Publisher: Universitas Ostraviensis
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Ostrava]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Popular culture; Civilization; American influences
Notes: Includes bibliographic references.
Table of contents: title: 1. Foreword / Scot M. Guenter and Petr Kopecký; title: 2. Teaching American women writers from inside and outside; title: 2.1. Finding about livin' : teaching women writers in modern American literature / Karla Šimčíková; title: 2.2. Acknowledgement and wreaths : teaching women writers in early American literature / Karen English; title: 3. American reality television; title: 3.1. How real can the Czechs get? / Andrea Holešová; title: 3.2. American reality TV : a genre's evolution from Schadenfreude to parody / Scot M. Guenter; title: 4. Myth and the American (south-) west; title: 4.1. The wild west through Czech eyes : cowboys and indians in the heart of Europe / Petr Kopecký; title: 4.2. "Culture vultures : white new womanhood's preserving and reinterpreting California's 'primitive' heritage of native Americans, Mexicans, and the wilderness, 1880s to 1930s" / Margo McBane; title: 5. US ethnic literature in the context of two major time periods and notions of war; title: 5.1. The second World War and the shaping of a literary consciousness in the works of Bellow, Momaday, and Okada / Stanislav Kolář; title: 5.2. Bridges to the past : diaspora and the cold war in Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban and Lan Cao's Monkey bridge / Persis M. Karim; title: 6. Contributors.