A History of American Literature

The American Century: Literature since 1945 667 most part to critical and commercial acclaim. Born on “The Hill,” a racially mix ...

668 The American Century: Literature since 1945 Telling impossible stories: Recent African-American fiction If any novelist can ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 669 narrator, finds herself directed outward, to anger against white society: findin ...

670 The American Century: Literature since 1945 relating to more than three hundred years of African-American history. And it co ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 671 personal and historical past. That is why the last word of Beloved is, precisely ...

672 The American Century: Literature since 1945 But just as Beloved, for all its push beyond realism, leaves no doubt as to the ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 673 women’s culture. It establishes a specifically womanist tradition, a series of r ...

674 The American Century: Literature since 1945 encounters with white colonists and developers, she also quietly links the story ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 675 happens to be written as a series of letters. It achieves its meaning precisely ...

676 The American Century: Literature since 1945 Williams (1944–1999). McMillan has been called the Frank Yerby (1916–1991) of he ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 677 whom she has described in her nonfiction as the “poets in the kitchen.” Her firs ...

678 The American Century: Literature since 1945 needs to reject all boundaries of family and island. In Lucy, a similarly acerbi ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 679 Kern, then Lorenz Hart (1895–1943), Hammerstein teamed up with Richard Rodgers ( ...

680 The American Century: Literature since 1945 to incorporate borrowings from other forms and styles, notably symbolism and exp ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 681 the dream clings to the place,” we are told, “a dream rising out of reality.” Th ...

682 The American Century: Literature since 1945 compelled to confront themselves and make the choices that define their lives in ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 683 to the personal. Whatever the subject and setting, the focus is on individual ex ...

684 The American Century: Literature since 1945 longed for was some kind of height where she could stand and see out and around ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 685 his absence. In a series of impressionistic scenes, intimate remembrances of thi ...

686 The American Century: Literature since 1945 world that has no use for ladies. Her need is to find protection, to secure her ...