Writing and America

1. Introduction. Writing Politics 2. The Role of the Constitution in the American Identity 3. Writing out of Communism. Writing and Gender 4. Women and Humour in America 5. The Western American Masculinity. Writing Race 6. The Native American in American Writng 7. The Slave Narrative in Afro-American Writing. Writing History 8. Discourse and Culture 9. 'James, Hawthorne and the Civil War'. Writing Place 10. Revisioning the American Landscape: from Utopia to Eco-critique 11. William Carlos Williams and the Reconstruction of America