Research Guide to American Literature

1 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present h T. Coraghessan Boyle, The Tortilla Curtain (New York: Viking, 1995) A prolific wr ...

for The Tortilla Curtain, the French Prix Medicis Etranger for best foreign novel. A self-styled “wild man of American fiction,” ...

1 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present us to jeer rather than speak, to poke at rather than touch.” For a more detailed lo ...

while simultaneously keeping nonwhites in subordinated positions. This approach argues that Kyra and Delaney Mossbacher enjoy fo ...

1 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present edited by Heinz Antor and Klaus Stierstorfer (Heidelberg: Winter, 2000), pp. 221–24 ...

Butler read voraciously, despite being diagnosed with dyslexia. Extremely shy and introspective, she began writing short stories ...

170 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Women Writers Series in 1988 and the publication of a twenty-fifth anniversary edit ...

TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION AND RESEARCH Kindred is the first novel to have a contemporary character confront the reality of history ...

172 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present wake of changing conceptions of multiculturalism. How have civic discourses about r ...

Frances Smith Foster, “Octavia Butler’s Black Female Future Fiction,” Extrapola- tion: A Journal of Science and Fantasy, 23 (Sum ...

17 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Raymond Carver, Where I’m Calling From (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988) “Ge ...

over his shoulder when he wrote, approving or disapproving of certain words, phrases, and strategies” (McInerney). Carver transf ...

17 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Raymond Carver has attracted as much critical attention as any modern short-story w ...

Raymond Carver’s work has been adapted for the screen in Short Cuts (1993), directed by Robert Altman, and Jindabyne (2006), di ...

17 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present RESOURCES Primary Works Marshall Bruce Gentry and William L. Stull, eds., Conversat ...

Laurie Champion, “‘What’s to Say’: Silence in Raymond Carver’s ‘Feathers,’” Studies in Short Fiction, 34 (Spring 1997): 193–201. ...

10 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Arthur M. Saltzman, Understanding Raymond Carver (Columbia: University of South Car ...

Ayelet Waldman, with whom he now has four children. They make their home in Berkeley, California. Several of these biographical ...

12 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Hawthorne puts it, “Wonderful escape!” Escape takes many, many forms here: as Houdi ...

an aged Sherlock Holmes. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union interpolates science fiction and alternate universe fantasy, as well as a ...