862 IndexBeckett, Samuel, 597, 663
Becky and Her Friends
(Hinojosa), 528
Beecher, Catharine, 91
Beecher, Lyman, 171
Beeson, Miranda, 821
The Beet Queen (Erdrich),
788–789
Before Columbus
Foundation, 657
Behind a Mask (Alcott), 285
Behrman, S. W., 422
Belasco, David, 422
belief, see faith; religion
Bell, Christine, 763
Bell, Madison Smartt, 586
Bellamy, Edward, 259–260
“Belles Demoiselles
Plantation” (Cable),
247–248
Bellow, Saul, 577–581, 743
Beloved (Morrison),
669–672
Ben Hur (Wallace), 223
Benchley, Robert, 510, 515
Bend Sinister (Nabokov), 745
“Beneath the Shadow of the
Freeway” (Cervantes),
750
Benét, Stephen Vincent, 494
Benjamin, Walter, 514, 720
Benn, Gottfried, 560
Bennett, Gwendolyn, 491
Beowulf, 716
bereavement: literary
treatments
Berrigan, 619
Bradstreet, 40–41
Ginsberg, 614
Gioia, 630–631
Salter, 625
Ta y l o r, 4 2
see also death
Berger, Thomas, 715, 716
Bernstein, Charles, 720, 721,
724–726
Berrigan, Ted, 615, 618–619
Berry, Walter, 327
Berry, Wendell, 443, 796Berryman, John, 535, 540,
558–560
Berryman’s Sonnets
(Berryman), 558
Betts, Doris, 597
Beverley, Robert, II, 50
Beyond Baroque, 749
Bibb, Henry, 164
Bidart, Frank, 566, 567,
816–817
Bierce, Ambrose, 224,
259–260
The Big Knife (Odets), 425
The Big Money (Dos Passos),
408, 409–410
The Big Nowhere (Ellroy), 731
“Big Two-Hearted River”
(Hemingway), 412
Bigger (Native Son), 498,
501–502
The Biglow Papers (Lowell),
206
Billy Bathgate (Doctorow),
576
Billy Budd (Melville), 189
Biloxi Blues (Simon), 696
The Bingo Palace (Erdrich),
789
Bird, Robert Montgomery,
100
Birds of America (McCarthy),
459
Bishop, Elizabeth, 534,
549–552, 554, 625, 628,
642
Bishop, John Peale, 319, 443
“Bitches Don’t Wait”
(Mirikitani), 772–773
“Black Art” (Baraka), 641, 644
Black Arts movement, 495,
524, 641–645, 657
Black Arts Repertory Theatre/
School, 644–645
Black Arts West, 665
The Black Book, 669
Black Boy (Wright), 499–501
“The Black Christ” (Cullen),
493
The Black Dahlia (Ellroy), 731Black House Theatre, 665,
666
black humor, 718
Black Mask, 339, 506
Black Mountain Review, 602
Black Mountain writers,
599–606, 615, 643, 725
Black Muslim movement,
640, 656
Black No More (Schuyler), 479
black power, 524
“The Black Spear” (Hayden),
494
Black Thunder (Bontemps),
487–488
Black Tickets (Phillips), 595
The Black Woman, 640
Blackburn, Paul, 602
The Blacker the Berry
(Thurman), 478
Blackfoot people, 7, 10
Blackwood’s Magazine, 100
Blake (Delany), 169
Blake, William, 116, 211,
381, 611
Bless Me, Ultima (Anaya),
753–754
The Blithedale Romance
(Hawthorne), 119, 179
Blood, Tin, Straw (Olds), 567
Blood Meridian (McCarthy),
587–588
The Bloodworth Orphans
(Forrest), 662
The Bloody Tenent of
Persecution (Williams), 34
“Blue Winds Dancing”
(Whitecloud), 472–473
blues, 477, 496–487, 501, 646
literary treatments, 648,
660–661, 674, 792, 793
and Williams, 676
The Bluest Eye (Morrison),
668–669
Bly, Robert, 536, 541, 545,
546–547, 824–825, 826
body, Olds on, 567
Bogan, Louise, 389–390, 642
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