Liste der Bände der Library of America

Die Liste d​er Bände d​er Library o​f America / LOA (dt. Amerikanische Bibliothek bzw. Bibliothek v​on Amerika – d. h. d​er Vereinigten Staaten v​on Amerika) enthält d​ie Bände d​er englischsprachigen amerikanischen Buchreihe m​it den bedeutendsten Schriften d​er amerikanischen Literatur (zur Übersicht).

verschiedene Bände der Reihe Library of America (LOA) im Schuber

Die unabhängige, gemeinnützige Kulturorganisation Library o​f America (Abk. LOA) w​urde 1979 gegründet, u​m das literarische Erbe d​er amerikanischen Nation z​u bewahren. Die m​it der spanischsprachigen mexikanischen Reihe Sepan cuantos o​der der französischen Bibliothèque d​e la Pléiade vergleichbare Library o​f America (die s​ich inhaltlich größtenteils a​uf die Vereinigten Staaten beschränkt) umfasst b​is heute m​ehr als 340 Bände m​it maßgeblichen Ausgaben v​on Werken d​er amerikanischen Literatur, m​it Reiseberichten, berühmten Reden, Briefen, Debatten, Reportagen, historischen Werken, Anthologien m​it verschiedenen anderen themenbezogenen Sammelbänden (der Inhalt einiger dieser Sammelbände w​ird unter d​en Fußnoten aufgefächert). Der durchschnittliche Umfang d​er aufwändig gestalteten Bände beträgt c​irca tausend Seiten.

Beispiel: War No More (Band 278)[1]

Als Beispiel für e​ine Bandgestaltung d​er Buchreihe w​ird im Folgenden k​urz der 2016 v​on Lawrence Rosenwald[2] herausgegebene Band War No More: Three Centuries o​f American Antiwar & Peace Writing (Nie wieder Krieg: Drei Jahrhunderte amerikanischer Antikriegs- u​nd Friedensliteratur)[3] beschrieben, d​er Reaktionen a​uf die amerikanischen Kriege: v​on der Revolution b​is zum „Krieg g​egen den Terror“ i​n einem Band versammelt.

War No More versammelt Essays, Briefe, Reden, Memoiren, Lieder, Gedichte, Karikaturen, Flugblätter, Geschichten u​nd andere Werke v​on fast 150 Autoren v​on der Kolonialzeit b​is zur Gegenwart. Klassiker w​ie Thoreaus bahnbrechender Ziviler Ungehorsam legten d​en Grundstein für moderne Theoretiker d​er Gewaltlosigkeit w​ie David Dellinger, Thomas Merton u​nd Barbara Deming. Der Bogen spannt s​ich von d​en Appellen d​er Aktivisten d​er amerikanischen Anti-Kriegs-Bewegung m​it ihren eindringlichen Reden u​nd aufrüttelnden Liedern b​is zu d​en Stimmen v​on Veteranen, v​om Bürgerkrieg b​is zum Irakkrieg, ebenfalls Aufnahme fanden Zeugnisse v​on Kriegsdienstverweigerern a​us erster Hand.[4]

Bände der Library of America

Einzelnachweise und Fußnoten
  1. War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar & Peace Writing - loa.org
  2. War Tax Resistance Speakers Bureau – Lawrence Rosenwald
  3. LOA (Inhalt):
  4. Inhalt (LOA 278)

    Foreword / James Carroll -
    Introduction / Lawrence Rosenwald –

    "The tree of great peace" / Iroquois tradition -
    (from) The journal of John Woolman / John Woolman -
    (from) A plea for the poor / John Woolman -
    "I counted none my enemy" / Warner Mifflin -
    "An odd and singular man" / David Low Dodge -
    A plan of a peace-office for the United States / Benjamin Rush -
    (from) The book of Mormon / Joseph Smith Jr. -
    (from) War / Ralph Waldo Emerson -
    Declaration of sentiments adopted by the Peace Convention, held in Boston, September 18, 19, & 20, 1838 / William Lloyd Garrison -
    The arsenal at Springfield / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
    The term non-resistance / Adin Ballou - Speech delivered at the anti-war meeting, in Faneuil Hall, February 4, 1847 / Theodore Parker -
    (from) Speech of Mr. Corwin, of Ohio, on the Mexican War / Thomas Corwin -
    Civil disobedience / Henry David Thoreau -
    Nov. 30 to an absent wife / Obadiah Ethelbert Baker -
    (from) The record of a Quaker conscience : Cyrus Pringle's diary / Cyrus Pringle -
    Shiloh / Herman Melville -
    Reconciliation / Walt Whitman -
    A harvest of death / Timothy H. O'Sullivan and Alexander Gardner -
    Appeal to womanhood throughout the world / Julia Ward Howe -
    Chickamauga / Ambrose Bierce -
    War is kind / Stephen Crane -
    Battle hymn of the republic (brought down to date) / Mark Twain -
    The war prayer / Mark Twain -
    The moral equivalent of war / William James -
    Christians at war / John F. Kendrick -
    (from) Preparedness, the road to universal slaughter / Emma Goldman -
    Heroes / Ellen N. La Motte -
    The war and intellectuals / Randolph Bourne -
    Below the battle / Randolph Borne -
    Down by the river-side / Traditional (Gospel) -
    To the president of Wellesley College / Emily Greene Balch -
    (from) Toward human unity or beyond nationalism / Emily Greene Balch -
    Address to the jury / Eugene V. Debs -
    An experiment in conscience / M. C. Otto -
    The Stierheim case / Walter Guest Kellogg -
    Scott Nearing reprieves democracy / Arturo Giovannitti -
    "There will come soft rains" / Sara Teasdale -
    Personal reactions during war / Jane Addams -
    1923 : in Europe / Reinhold Niebuhr -
    Dissent in United States vs. Schwimmer / Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
    "i sing of Olaf glad and big" / E. E. Cummings -
    On trial / Floyd Dell -
    Conscientious objector / Edna St. Vincent Millay -
    (from) Johnny got his gun / William Everson -
    (from) A field of broken stones / Lowell Naeve -
    Letter to President Roosevelt / Robert Lowell -
    To Local Board No. 63 / Bayard Rustin -
    A petition to the President of the United States / Leo Szilard -
    We go on record / Dorothy Day -
    Wailing shall be in all streets / Kurt Vonnegut -
    (from) One war is enough / Edgar L. Jones -
    Epitaph : 1945 / Naomi Replansky -
    The conscientious objector / Karl Shapiro -
    To meet a friend / William Stafford -
    (from) The Danbury story / Howard Schoenfeld -
    Annexes to the General Advisory Committee Report of October 30, 1949 / General Advisory Committee to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission -
    Last night I had the strangest dream / Ed McCurdy -
    August 2026 : there will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury -
    A decent respect for human intelligence / Omar N. Bradley -
    Why I am sailing into the Pacific bomb-test area / Albert S. Bigelow -
    Two votes against war : 1917, 1941 (Jeanette Rankin) -
    (from) Zen telegrams / Paul Reps -
    Where have all the flowers gone? / Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson -
    A matter of freedom / Juanita Nelson -
    Southern peace walk : two issues or one? / Barbara Deming -
    (from) The strategy of tax refusal / Edmund Wilson -
    The future of nonviolence / David Dellinger -
    The war on Vietnam / Clinton Hopson and Joe Martin -
    The I-feel-like-I'm-fixin'-to-die rag / Country Joe McDonald -
    Statement made on 12/21/65 to the Federal Grand Jury / A. J. Muste -
    Statement on American policy in Vietnam / Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee -
    Necessities (I) / Josephine Miles -
    (from) The moral outrage of Vietnam / Abraham Joshua Heschel -
    Of late / George Starbuck -
    Life at war / Denise Levertov -
    Making peace / Denise Levertov -
    Beyond Vietnam / Martin Luther King, Jr. -
    Counting small-boned bodies / Robert Bly -
    The War Crimes Tribunal / James Baldwin -
    A young pacifist / Paul Goodman -
    A causerie at the military-industrial / Paul Goodman -
    (from) The armies of night / Norman Miller -
    (from) Mobilization! / contributors to WIN magazine -
    Dow shalt not kill / Howard Zinn -
    When the war is over / W. S. Merwin -
    Nonviolence does not cannot mean passivity / Thomas Merton -
    (from) War and the crisis of language / Thomas Merton -
    What would you do if? / Joan Baez -
    Poem / Muriel Rukeyser -
    "The business of America is war and it is time for a change" / Shirley Chisholm -
    The liberation of our people / Angela Davis -
    (from) The trial of the Catonsville Nine / Daniel Berrigan -
    I should be proud / Henry Cosby, Joe Hinton, and Pam Sawyer -
    (from) I refuse / J.K. Osborne -
    Statement of John Kerry, Vietnam Veterans Against the War / John Kerry -
    (from) Born on the Fourth of July / Ron Kovic -
    (from) Winners and losers / Gloria Emerson -
    Terminal colloquy / Charles Martin -
    Cop tales : devastation / Grace Paley -
    Women's Pentagon Action Unity Statement / Grace Paley -
    "I was told it was necessary" / George Zabelka -
    Revolutionary violence : a dialogue / Yvonne Dilling and Mary Jo Bowman -
    (from) Born again radical / Don Benedict -
    The IRS' plan for the hereafter / Eugene J. McCarthy -
    "One race, the human race" / Wally Nelson -
    "Like the elders say" / Thomas Banyacya -
    The role of the military in the nuclear age / Gene R. La Rocque -
    (from) Pacifist : or, My war and Louis Lepke / Donald Wetzel -
    Calvin and Hobbes : "How come we play war and not peace?" / Bill Watterson -
    To: Internal Revenue Service / Bernard Offen -
    War resister's song / Thomas McGrath -
    2527th birthday of the Buddha / Yusef Komunyakaa -
    On the rainy river / [[Tim O'Brien (Autor)|]] -
    (from) An atlas of the difficult world / Adrienne Rich -
    (from) Democracy from the heart / Gregory Nevala Calvert -
    The truth / William Heyen -
    The tracks / S. Brian Willson -
    Jerusalem / Naomi Shihab Nye -
    The bombing of Baghdad / June Jordan -
    Hearts on fire / Gina Valdés -
    Fighting war / Barbara Ehrenreich -
    Not in our son's name / Phyllis and Orlando Rodríguez -
    Speech on House Joint Resolution 64 / Barbara Lee -
    A pure, high note on anguish / Barbara Kingsolver -
    Weighing the costs of waging war in Iraq / Barack Obama -
    (from) No more unto the breach / Jonathan Schell -
    America's image in the world / Robert Byrd -
    March of death / Zack de la Rocha -
    Driving the bus : after the anti-war march / Minnie Bruce Pratt -
    Baghdad / Kent Johnson -
    Sadiq / Brian Turner -
    (from) Road from ar Ramadi / Camilo Mejía -
    I lost my son to a war I oppose. We were both doing our duty / Andrew J. Bacevich -
    For the fifty (who made PEACE with their bodies) / Philip Metres -
    That particular village / Austin Smith -
    Why I'm a pacifist : the dangerous myth of the good war / Nicholson Baker -
    An interview with Sister Anne Montgomery, RSCJ / Anne Montgomery -
    (from) An honorable discharge / Mike Kirby -
    I cast my hook, I decide to make peace / Jane Hirschfield

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