A History of American Literature

894 Index

On Newfound River (Page), 241

“On the Duty of Civil

Disobedience”

(Thoreau), 125–126

“On the Equality of the Sexes”

(Murray), 70

On the Road (Kerouac), 522,

611, 632–633

On Trial (Rice), 423

Oñate, Juan de, 19

Once in a Promised Land

(Halaby), 799

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s

Nest (Kesey), 638–640

One Hour (Smith), 457

Oneida people, 780

O’Neill, Eugene, 426–429,

454, 678

O’Neill, Joseph, 800, 804–805

Onoto Watanna, see Eaton,

Winnifred

“The Open Boat” (Crane),

277

Open House (Roethke), 552

Open Theatre, 688

Oppen, George, 363, 364–365

Opportunity, 484, 491, 493

Oral History (Smith), 596

orality

African-American, 75

and Baraka, 643

blues, 496

corridos, 293–294

and Faulkner, 415

folksongs, 197–199

and Gaines, 660

and Hinojosa, 754–755

Hispanic Southwest,

139–141

and Hurston, 481–482

and Knight, 649

and Laviera, 758

and Native Americans,

4–18, 134, 294, 298,

780–795

performance poetry,

641–642, 646–647, 650,

749–750, 757

and postwar novels, 596

and Shange, 650

spirituals, 196–197

order

Adams on, 291–293

and Eliot, 377

and Stevens, 380–381

“Oread” (H. D.), 361

O’Regan, Teague (Modern

Chivalry), 84–85

The Oregon Trail (Parkman),

99, 100, 101–102

Origin, 602

origin, myths of, see creation

Orlovsky, Peter, 614

Ormond (Brown), 85, 86

orphanhood, Forrest on, 662

Orpheus (Rukeyser), 393

Orpheus Descending

(Williams), 684, 687

Orr, Gregory, 827

Ortiz, Simon, 779, 780

Osage people, 782

Osgood, Frances Sargent,

200–201

Ostriker, Alice, 823, 828

Other Voices, Other Rooms

(Capote), 701

otherness: literary treatments

Eliot, 377

Faulkner, 417–420

regionalists, 244

see also alienation

“Our America” (Martí), 295

“Our Greatest Want”

(Harper), 162

Our Nig (Wilson), 169–170

Our Old Home

(Hawthorne), 182

Our Town (Wilder), 423

“Out, Out –” (Frost),

353–354

The Outsider (Wright), 502

“The Oven Bird” (Frost), 353

“The Over-Soul” (Emerson),

115

Overland Monthly, 231, 279

The Owl Answers (Kennedy),

665

Oxata (Hejinian), 724

Oxherding Tale (Johnson),

662

Ozick, Cynthia, 743

“The Pact,” 627

Padgett, Ron, 618

Page, Thomas Nelson, 224,

240–241, 242

Pai, Margaret K., 775

Paine, Thomas, 65–66, 70

“A Pair of Silk Stockings”

(Chopin), 244

Pal Joey (Hammerstein,

Kaufman, and Hart),

679

Pale Fire (Nabokov), 745–746,

747

Pale Horse, Pale Rider

(Porter), 400, 401

Paley, Grace, 594, 744

Palmer, Michael, 724,

725–726

Papago people, 5

“Papermill” (Kalar), 449

Papp, Joseph, 698

Paradise (Morrison), 671, 672

Paradise, Sal (On the Road),

632–633

Paredes, Américo, 748

Paretsky, Sara, 731–732

Parker, Charlie, 603, 643,

649, 650

Parker, Dorothy, 319, 511,

512, 515

Parker, Robert B., 731

Parker, Theodore, 119

Parkman, Francis, 100,

101–102

The Partisan Leader

(Tucker), 151

Partisan Review, 320, 500

Pass It On (Hadas), 626

Passamaqoddy people, 9, 11

Passing (Larsen), 482,

483–484

“The Passing of Grandison”

(Chesnutt), 253–254

“A Passionate Pilgrim”

(James), 262

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