A History of American Literature

The American Century: Literature since 1945 747 journey, loss, pursuit, and revenge. The love plot is propelled forward in a str ...

748 The American Century: Literature since 1945 he takes another human being as a means rather than an end. In the process, he c ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 749 And nowhere has this awareness of duality, of two Mexicos, been more apparent th ...

750 The American Century: Literature since 1945 What the poetry of Soto and Baca does not possess is suggested by someone else w ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 751 Juan, we are told, “became a part of the great exodus that came of the Mexican R ...

752 The American Century: Literature since 1945 1920s, Rivera worked as a migrant farm laborer in the 1950s; and this experience ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 753 A similar awareness of ethnic identity as a borderland, a meeting place between ...

754 The American Century: Literature since 1945 elements that is his being. As the dying Ultima blesses Antonio at the end of th ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 755 as fragments of testimony slowly reveal the neglected truth; so, in a way, does ...

756 The American Century: Literature since 1945 specifically, about the imprisonment of women, denied the possibility of realizi ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 757 The fiction of Helena María Viramontes (1954 –) measures the capacity for experi ...

758 The American Century: Literature since 1945 group. He uses a harsh, demotic language, the street speech of African-Americans ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 759 dedicated as Laviera and Pietri are to registering the truth of his culture. In ...

760 The American Century: Literature since 1945 grandmother (“Claims” (1987)), a jilted woman (“The Woman Who Was Left at the Al ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 761 center of her own story. América’s Dream, as its title implies, is a novel that ...

762 The American Century: Literature since 1945 identification with her old home. Rather, it is a symptom of her subtle reaction ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 763 women of the del Pino family. The idea of Cuba is a shifting, ambiguous dream fo ...

764 The American Century: Literature since 1945 Pacific Rim have in common is something they share with some, but by no means al ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 765 new. The daughter is trapped in domestic duties, but lets her hair down “like a ...

766 The American Century: Literature since 1945 resists her mother’s demand that she could and should mix “American circumstance ...