Research Guide to American Literature

22 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Pat Righelato, Understanding Rita Dove (Columbia: University of South Carolina Pres ...

Erdrich entered Dartmouth College in 1972, the first year it admitted women. She graduated in 1976 and went on to earn a master’ ...

22 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present While Love Medicine provides a compelling reading experience on its own, students w ...

is it a physical place, and how does Erdrich use the concept metaphorically? The essays by James Ruppert, Mark Shackleton, and t ...

22 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present short-story cycle and novel genres; the articles by Cox, Slack, and Suzanne Ferguso ...

Karen Castellucci Cox, “Magic and Memory in the Contemporary Short Story Cycle: Gloria Naylor and Louise Erdrich,” College Engli ...

20 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Sees Love Medicine as “overcoming Otherness” through its bicultural blendings, offe ...

Geared toward students and general readers. The book offers a biographical chap- ter, a chapter tracing themes of community and ...

22 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present work reminded him of the social divisions in the South. He also acknowledges the in ...

National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Gaines has also been awarded the National Humanities Medal of the United States, ...

2 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present culinity in Gaines’s fiction included in the volumes by Keith Clark, Karen Carmean, ...

tions, such as the one shared by Mathu and Candy; between older characters like Mathu and Sheriff Mapes or Miss Merle; or younge ...

2 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present David C. Estes, ed., Critical Reflections on the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines (Athen ...

his Jewish father emigrated from Hungary and settled in New York. She is one of three sisters, the middle between the youngest, ...

2 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present providing a medium for a divine speaker. Meadowlands juxtaposes The Odyssey against ...

Tony Hoagland discusses Glück’s “prosecutorial logic,” her use of “an inter- twining deductive sequence of propositions and con ...

20 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present of Glück’s work, focusing particularly on The Wild Iris, whose poems meditate upon ...

Joanne Feit Diehl, ed., On Louise Glück: Change What You See (Ann Arbor: Uni- versity of Michigan Press, 2005). Essential collec ...

22 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees (New York: Harper & Row, 1988) Barbara Kings ...

focusing more closely than did The Bean Trees on people involved in the Sanctu- ary movement. Pigs in Heaven (1993) returns read ...