The Department of American Studies

Faculty Publications

Michael Frisch's BookMichael Frisch

The Oral History Review devoted a special issue in spring 2003 to discussions of the impact of Michael Frisch's influential 1990 book, A Shared Authority.

"Prismatics, Multivalence, and Other Riffs on the Millennial Moment: Presidential Address to the American Studies Association." American Quarterly 53.2 (June 2001).

"Deindustrialization from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out: The Challenge of Working Class Portraiture in Words and Images." In Moraes-Ferreira, Fernandes, Alberti, eds., Historia Oral: desafios para o seculo XXI (Rio de Janeiro, 2000).

 


 

Donald Grinde

Donald Grinde's BookBooks

A Political History of Native Americans. Editor and contributor. Washington: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2002.

Articles

"The Impact of the Great Depression on Native Americans." In Robert S. McElvaine, ed., Encyclopedia of the Great Depression II. New York: MacMillan Reference, 2004.

"Commentary" for "Symposium on Native Pragmatism." Transactions of the Charles S. Pierce Society XXXIX (fall 2003).

"Reaching the Grassroots: The Worldwide Diffusion of Iroquois Democratic Traditions." Co-authored with Bruce E. Johansen. American Indian Culture and Research Journal XXVII (summer 2003).

"Iroquois Border Crossings: Place, Identity and the Jay Treaty." In Claudia Sadowski-Smith, ed., Cultural Borderlands. New York: St. Martins Press, 2002.

"Native Americans and the Declaration of Independence." In Scott L. Gerber, ed. A Political History of the Declaration of Independence. Washington: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2002.

"Indian Reorganization Act." In Oxford Encyclopedia of American History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

 


 

Dennis Tedlock

Dennis Tedlock's BookBooks

The Human Work, The Human Design: 2000 Years of Mayan Literature. Berkeley: University of California Press, forthcoming.

Rabinal Achi: Dialogue, Dance, and History in a Mayan Play. Based on a script written in 16th-century K'iche', a 1998 production of the play in Rabinal, and dialogues with the director. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

International Editions

Verba manent: L'interpretazione del parlato. (Italian translation of The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation.) Trans. Matera Vicenzo. L'Ancora Edizione, 2002.

Popol Vuh: Cartea maya despre zorii vietii si triumfurile zeilor si regilor. Romanian translation. Bucharest: Editura Humanitas, 2000.

Book Chapters

"Are k'ut roq'ej kik'ux wa' / And this is the cry of their hearts, here it is." In 500 Years of Latin American Literature, edited by Cecilia Vicuña and Ernesto Grosman. New York: Oxford University Press (forthcoming).

Excerpt from Popol Vuh in World History Primary Source Library. CD-ROM.
Woodland Hills, Calif.: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill (forthcoming).

Excerpt from Popol Vuh in libretto for Symphony Number Five (choral) by Philip Glass. New York: Dunvagen MusicPublishers (forthcoming).

"The Sun, Moon, and Venus among the Stars: Methods for Mapping Mayan Sidereal Space" (with Barbara Tedlock). Archaeoastronomy 17:5-22 (2004).

"El último trago de un prisionero de guerra." Arqueología Mexicana 10(59):44-49. Translated by Elisa Ramírez; English version 84-87 (2003).

"Written in Sound: The Multiple Voices of the Zuni Storyteller." In American Babel: Literatures of the United States from Abnaki to Zuni, edited by Marc Shell, pp. 238-60. Harvard English Studies 20. Cambridge: Harvard University Press (2002).

"How to Drink Chocolate from a Skull at a Wedding Banquet." Res 42:166-79 (2002).

"Notes on Rural and Urban Life in the Upper Sonoran Zone." ecopoetics 2:158-59 (2002).

"El surgimiento de la antropología dialógica en las Américas." In Motivos de la antropología americanista: Indagaciones en la diferencia, edited by Miguel León-Portilla, Manuel Gutiérrez Estévez, and Gary H. Gossen, pp. 460-505. México: Fondo de Cultura Económica (2001).

"Temple of the Sun-Eyed Shield." In The Languages of Kings: An Anthology of Mesoamerican Literature, Pre-Columbian to thePresent. Eds. Miguel Leon Portilla and Earl Shorris. New York: Norton, 2001. 43-48.

Excerpts from Popul Vuh in The Languages of Kings: An Anthology of Mesoamerican Literature, Pre-Columbian to the Present. Eds. Miguel Leon Portilla and Earl Shorris. New York: Norton, 2001. 403-404, 406-13, 418, 438-43, 450-51.

"Buzzard." Translation from K'iche' of a poem by Humberto Ak'abal. In The Languages of Kings: An Anthology of Mesoamerican Literature, Pre-Columbian to thePresent. Eds. Miguel Leon Portilla and Earl Shorris. New York: Norton, 2001. 610.

"Popol Vuh." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures, v. 3, edited by David Carrasco. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 20-22.

 


 

Kari Winter

Kari Winter's BookBooks

The Blind African Slave: or, Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nick-named Jeffrey Brace. New edition of an 1810 slave narrative, with an introduction and historical annotations. Wisconsin Studies

in Autobiography Series. University of Wisconsin Press, 2005.

Subjects of Slavery, Agents of Change: Women and Power in Gothic Novels and
Slave Narratives, 1790-1865
. University of Georgia Press, 1992.

Articles

“Slaves Under the Driveway? Exhuming Buried History in Milford and Southbury,
Connecticut.” Connecticut Review 30.2 (2008): 63-72.

“Jeffrey Brace in Barbados: Slavery, Interracial Relationships, and the Emergence of a
Global Economy.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 29.2-3 (2007): 111-25.

“Bordering Freedom but Unable to Cross into the Promised Land: Africans in Early
Vermont.” Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques 32.3 (2006): 473-92.

“The Hogshards of Bridgetown: A Case Study of a Free Colored Family in Eighteenth-
Century Barbados.” Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society 158
(2002): 29-42. Co-authored with Pedro Welch.

“The Politics and Erotics of Food in Louise Erdrich.” Studies in American Indian
Literature
12.4 (2000): 44-64.

"Narrative Desire in Ann Petry's The Street." Journal X 4.2 (2000): 101-12.

"'My body survives by uttering itself': Writing the Body in Louise Erdrich's The Blue Jay's
Dance." Inquiry 18.3 (1999): 53-62.

"Re-Membering the Landscape: The Function of Storytelling in Joseph Bruchac's
Dawnland and Long River." Paintbrush 24 (1997): 84-92.

"Refusing the 'Sovereign Territory' of Language: The Old Trickster Nanapush vs. a Storm
of Government Papers." Northwest Review 35.3 (1997): 115-24.

Book Chapters


“Jeffrey Brace in Barbados: Slavery, Interracial Relationships, and the Emergence of a
Global Economy.” Nineteenth-Century Worlds: Global Formations Past and Present,
eds. Greg Kucich and Keith Hanley. Routledge, 2008. Reprint of Nineteenth-Century
Contexts
special issue.

“Gender as a Drag in The Beet Queen.” Approaches to Teaching the Works of Louise
Erdrich
. New York: MLA, 2004. 183-90.

"On Blues, Autobiography, and Performative Utterance: The Jouissance of Alberta
Hunter." Creating Safe Space: Violence and Women's Writing.  Eds. Tomoko
Kuribayashi and Julie Tharp. Albany: SUNY Press, 1998. 201-12.

"Sexual/Textual Politics of Terror: Writing and Rewriting the Gothic Genre in the 1790s."
Misogyny in Literature. Ed. Katherine Ackley. New York:
Garland, 1992. 89-103.

Interviews

“An Interview with Joseph Bruchac.” Studies in American Indian Literature 14.2-3
(2002): 12-27.

"On Being an Outlaw: A Conversation with Callie Khouri." Hurricane Alice 8
(1992): 6-8.


 

Jose Buscaglia

Books

Undoing Empire, Race, and Nation in the Mulatto Caribbean (University of Minnesota Press, 2003).                                                   

Historias del Seno Mexicano (Stories of the Mexican Archipelago) (Havana: Editorial Letras Cubanas, 2009).

Articles

"Puerto Rico '98: Architecture and Empire at the Fin de Siècle," Journal of Architectural Education 48:4 (1995): 250-259.

"14 Mapas de precisiones imaginarias/ 14 Maps of Imaginary Precision," Intersight 6(2001): 114-133.

"Un Moro en la Gloria: Plácido, o el color de la indecisión" (A Moor in Heaven: Plácido, or the Color of Ambiguity), Azoteas 3(2003): 9-15.

"La Revolución Haitiana y la decapitación del ideal europeo" (The Haitian Revolution and the Decapitation of the European Ideal), Revista Casa de las Américas, 233(2003): 143-148.

"1937: Carpentier y la lucha contra el fascismo" (1937: Carpentier and the Fight Against Fascism), Revista de la Biblioteca Nacional José Martí, 95.3-4 (2004): 24-29.

"The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez (1690) and the Duplicitous Complicity Between the Narrator, the Writer, and the Censor," Dissidences, Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism, 1.1 (September 2005). (http://www.dissidences.org/SiguenzaMisfortunes.html)

"Las naciones imposibles y el mundo del mulataje en el Caribe" (The Impossible Nations and the World of Caribbean Mulataje), Estudos Lingüísticos e Literários, 31/32 (2005): 193-202.

"Diversión, fingimiento, y enmascaramiento en los Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez (1691)" (Diversion, Feigning and Cover-up in the Misfortunes of Alonso Ramirez, 1691), Revolución y Cultura 2(April, May, June 2006): 24-29.

"La 'Nuestra España' carpenteriana, o del cómo proceder cuidadosamente entre los escombros de una civilización" (Carpentier's "Our Spain," or of How to Proceed with Caution Through the Wreckage of a Civilization), Azoteas 5(2006): 59-74.