Index 867comedy and humor
18th-century drama, 70–71
19th-century novels,
224–231
comedy and humor: 20th
century
African-American postwar
drama, 667
African-American postwar
novels, 658–659
drama, 422–423, 695–696
poetry, 391
beat poetry, 613, 614
immigrant novels, 741,
747–748, 764, 766
mid-century, 509–512
Native American novels, 787
post-9/11, 811, 813
postmodern novels, 715,
718
postwar essays, 701
postwar novels, 569, 572,
577–578, 585–586
postwar poetry, 619, 628
postwar women’s novels,
591–592
see also satire; Southwest
humorists
Comfort Woman (Keller),
774–775
comic strips, 639
commodity culture: literary
treatments, 735
see also consumerism;
materialism
Common Sense (Paine), 65
“A Communication to Nancy
Cunard” (Boyle), 449
communion, Stevens on, 383
Communism
and Dos Passos, 410
and Gold, 454–455
literary treatments, 652
McCarthyism, 521–522
and Oppen, 365
and Wright, 500
see also House
Un-American Activities
Committee; Marxismcommunity: literary
treatments
Baldwin, 654–655
Blackburn, 602
Crane, 275, 278
Heinlein, 737
Hurston, 480
McPherson, 662
Mori, 770
Native American writers,
780–795
Rexroth, 449
Viramontes, 757
Wilson, 694
community vs. individualism
in Hawthorne, 180–181
Whitman on, 209
see also social convention
and conditioning
The Company She Keeps
(McCarthy), 458
Compson, Caddy (The
Sound and the Fury),
418–420
Compson brothers (The
Sound and the Fury),
418–420
Condon, Richard, 573
A Confederacy of Dunces
(Toole), 718
The Confessions of Nat Turner
(Styron), 573, 676
The Confidence-Man
(Melville), 189
“The Congo” (Lindsay), 447
The Conjure Man Dies
(Fisher), 478, 732
The Conjure Woman
(Chesnutt), 251–252
Connecticut Wits, 79
A Connecticut Yankee in
King Arthur’s Court
(Twain), 230
The Connection (Gelber), 689
Conquistador (MacLeish), 451
Conrad, Joseph, 260, 276
Conroy, Jack, 319, 486, 487
conscience, personal: literary
treatments, 681–682conspiracy: literary
treatments, 705, 707, 709
conspiracy theory
in Miller, 682
in Puritan writings, 46
consumerism: literary
treatments
DeLillo, 586
Fitzgerald, 403
Olson, 600
Perelman, 723
see also commodity culture;
materialism
Contending Forces (Hopkins),
283–284
“Continent’s End” (Jeffers),
356
Continental Drift (Banks), 717
“The Continuity”
(Blackburn), 602
The Contrast (Tyler), 80–81
conversion to Christianity
of African-Americans, 47
as justification of slavery, 75
of Native Americans, 2, 15,
17–19, 47
conversion to Islam, 656
Cook, Ebenezer, 55–56
A Cool Million (West), 515
Coolidge, Calvin, 512
Coolidge, Clark, 720
Cooper, Anna Julia, 295–296
Cooper, Dennis, 749
Cooper, James Fenimore, 87,
95–99, 137
cooperative communities,
119, 179, 285
Coos people, 12
Coover, Robert, 586, 717, 718
copyright laws, 92
Copway, George, 136–137
Copway’s American Indian, 137
The Coquette (Foster), 81,
83–84
Coronado, Francisco
Vasquez de, 15
The Corrections (Franzen),
804
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