A History of American Literature

Index 893

Asian-American, 764,

765–772, 771–772,

774–779

beat, 632–636

Black Arts, 643

Chicano/a, 751–755,

756–757

detective and thrillers,

505–507, 727–734

early, 299, 319, 327–342,

344–345

European immigrant,

740–741, 743–748

Fugitives, 437, 439–444

“hardboiled,” 507–509

immigrant, 300–301,

303–305, 305, 467–468,

470–471

Latina, 760–761, 762–763

Modernist, 400, 401–420,

483–486

muckrakers, 302–303

Native American, 472–476,

782–795

naturalist, 271–274, 276–281

popular, 503–518

postmodern, 705–720

post-9/11, 795–809

postwar, 568–599, 620,

631–640, 704–705

prophetic, 462–466

radicals, 455–459, 458–459,

461

science fiction, 568, 569,

735–740, 791–792

traditionalist, 439–443

women, see women:

writings, 20th century

nuclear weapons and war,

521–522

literary treatments,

547–548, 737, 786–787

Nugent, Elliot, 511

Nuyorican Poets Café, 749, 757

Nye, Naomi Shihab, 566

“O City, City” (Schwartz), 542

O-gî-mäw-kwe Mit-i-gwä-ki

(Pokagon), 472

O Pioneers! (Cather), 333, 335

Oakley, Dorinda (Barren

Ground), 331

Oates, Joyce Carol, 593–594

Objectivism, 363–365

O’Brien, Tim, 587, 704

Observations (Moore), 363

O’Casey, Sean, 663

Occom, Samson, 71–72

“An Occurrence at Owl

Creek Bridge” (Bierce),

260

O’Connor, Flannery, 590–592,

593, 714

October Light (Gardner), 715

The Octopus (Norris), 272,

273–275

O’Daly, William, 825

“Ode to Sequoya” (Posey), 234

“Ode to the Confederate

Dead” (Tate), 437

Oden, G. C., 642

Odets, Clifford, 424–426

Odyssey Theatre, 688

Of Mice and Men

(Steinbeck), 464

Of One Blood (Hopkins), 283

Of Plymouth Plantation

(Bradford), 28–30,

33, 34

Of Time and the River

(Wolfe), 462, 463

Of Women and Their Elegance

(Mailer), 571

“Off from Swing Shift”

(Hongo), 773

“Often I Am Permitted to

Return to a Meadow”

(Duncan), 606

Ogden, Hugh, 823

Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s

Hung You in the Closet

and I’m Feelin’ So Sad

(Kopit), 689

Oh What a Paradise It Seems

(Cheever), 572

O’Hara, Frank, 615–618, 619,

620, 621, 622, 642

O’Hara, John, 572, 679

O’Hara, Scarlett (Gone With

the Wind), 513–514

oil industry, 222

Ojibwa people

history and culture, 137

stories, 134, 135

Okada, John, 771

Okanogan people, 5,

475–476

Oklahoma! (Rodgers and

Hammerstein), 679

old age: literary treatments

Holmes, 205

Longfellow, 204

Miller, 683

Roethke, 554

Old Creole Days (Cable),

247–249

Old Indian Legends (Bonnin),

298

“The Old Order” (Porter),

401

Old Washington (Spofford),

286

Olds, Sharon, 567

Oldtown Fireside Stories

(Stowe), 176

Oldtown Folks (Stowe), 176

Oleander (Mamet), 695

Olenska, Ellen (The Age of

Innocence), 328–329

Olsen, Tillie, 449, 741–743

Olson, Charles, 599–602, 615,

642, 650, 726

Omensetter’s Luck (Gass),

573

Omoo (Melville), 184

“On a Soldier Fallen in the

Philippines” (Moody),

272

“On Being Brought from

Africa to America”

(Wheatley), 76–77

“On Hearing of the Intention

of a Gentleman to

Purchase the Poet’s

Freedom” (Horton), 144

“On Leaving California”

(Taylor), 232

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