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A History of American Literature

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  • and During the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 1 The First Americans: American Literature Before

  • Imagining Eden

  • Native American Oral Traditions

  • Spanish and French Encounters with America

  • Anglo-American Encounters

  • Writing of the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods

    • Puritan narratives

    • Challenges to the Puritan oligarchy

    • Some colonial poetry

    • Enemies within and without

    • Trends toward the secular and resistance

    • Toward the Revolution

    • Alternative voices of Revolution

    • Writing Revolution: Poetry, drama, fiction



  • Literature, 1800–1865 2 Inventing Americas: The Making of American

  • Making a Nation

  • The Making of American Myths

    • Myths of an emerging nation

    • The making of Western myth

    • The making of Southern myth

    • Legends of the Old Southwest



  • The Making of American Selves viii Contents

    • The Transcendentalists

    • Voices of African-American identity



  • The Making of Many Americas

    • Native American writing

    • Oral culture of the Hispanic Southwest

    • African-American polemic and poetry

    • Abolitionist and pro-slavery writing

    • Abolitionism and feminism

    • African-American writing



  • The Making of an American Fiction and Poetry

    • The emergence of American narratives

    • Women writers and storytellers

    • Spirituals and folk songs

    • American poetic voices



  • The Development of American Literature, 1865–1900 3 Reconstructing the Past, Reimagining the Future:

  • Rebuilding a Nation

  • The Development of Literary Regionalism

    • From Adam to outsider

    • Regionalism in the West and Midwest

    • African-American and Native American voices

    • Regionalism in New England

    • Regionalism in the South



  • The Development of Literary Realism and Naturalism

    • Capturing the commonplace

    • Capturing the real thing

    • Toward Naturalism



  • The Development of Women’s Writing

    • Writing by African-American women

    • Writing and the condition of women



  • The Development of Many Americas

    • Things fall apart

    • Voices of resistance

    • Voices of reform

    • The immigrant encounter



  • American Literature, 1900–1945 4 Making It New: The Emergence of Modern

  • Changing National Identities

  • Between Victorianism and Modernism

    • The problem of race Contents ix

    • Building bridges: Women writers

    • Critiques of American provincial life

    • Poetry and the search for form



  • The Inventions of Modernism

    • Imagism, Vorticism, and Objectivism

    • Making it new in poetry

    • Making it new in prose

    • Making it new in drama



  • Traditionalism, Politics, and Prophecy

    • The uses of traditionalism

    • Populism and radicalism

    • Prophetic voices



  • Community and Identity

    • Immigrant writing

    • Native American voices

    • The literature of the New Negro movement and beyond



  • Mass Culture and the Writer

    • Western, detective, and hardboiled fiction

    • Humorous writing

    • Fiction and popular culture



  • American Literature since 5 Negotiating the American Century:

  • Toward a Transnational Nation

  • Formalists and Confessionals

    • From the mythological eye to the lonely “I” in poetry

    • From formalism to freedom in poetry

    • The uses of formalism

    • Confessional poetry

    • New formalists, new confessionals



  • Public and Private Histories

    • Documentary and dream in prose

    • Contested identities in prose

    • Crossing borders: Some women prose writers



  • Beats, Prophets, Aesthetes, and New Formalists

    • Rediscovering the American voice: The Black Mountain writers

    • Restoring the American vision: The San Francisco Renaissance

    • Recreating American rhythms: The beat generation

    • Reinventing the American self: The New York poets

    • Redefining American poetry: The New Formalists

    • Resisting orthodoxy: Dissent and experiment in fiction

    • The Art and Politics of Race x Contents

      • Defining a new black aesthetic

      • Defining a new black identity in prose

      • Defining a new black identity in drama

      • Telling impossible stories: Recent African-American fiction



    • Realism and its Discontents

      • Confronting the real, stretching the realistic in drama

      • New Journalists and dirty realists



    • Language and Genre

      • Watching nothing: Postmodernity in prose

      • The actuality of words: Postmodern poetry

      • Signs and scenes of crime, science fiction, and fantasy



    • Creating New Americas

      • Dreaming history: European immigrant writing

      • Remapping a nation: Chicano/a and Latino/a writing

      • Improvising America: Asian-American writing

      • New and ancient songs: The return of the Native American



    • After the Fall: American Literature since 9/11

      • Writing the crisis in prose

      • Writing the crisis in drama

      • Writing the crisis in poetry





  • Further Reading

  • Index

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