Research Guide to American Literature

2 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present That Has No Name, abuse of the powerless, racism, poetry, freedom, childhood, mothe ...

Linda Wagner-Martin notes a tendency in Kingsolver’s interviews and essays for the writer to consider herself an outsider, a mi ...

2 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Biography David King Dunaway and Sara L. Spurgeon, eds., “Barbara Kingsolver,” in t ...

Considers The Bean Trees through the lens of the tradition of loners in American literature, typically male and moving away from ...

2 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present in 1962, she married Earll Kingston, an actor; their only child, Joseph Lawrence Ch ...

in 2000 at Harvard University and explore her growing experimentation with writing in verse and attempts to live a poet’s life. ...

20 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present perceives to be exclusionary definitions of Chinese American identity based on masc ...

ing by dominant American culture. Another approach would be to show how thematic issues in one work “speak to” or reveal similar ...

22 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Shirley Geok-lin Lim, “Reading Back, Looking Forward: A Retrospective Inter- view w ...

of Asian American literary history and a bibliography of works by and about Kingston. Feng Lan, “The Female Individual and the E ...

2 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Bonnie C. Winsbro, “Writing with Ghosts: Power through Individuation in Maxine Hong ...

Fisher, 2001). Despair over the reelection of President Ronald Reagan in 1984 inspired his first significant play. He set A Brig ...

2 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present informing the angelic Continental Principalities, “We can’t just stop. We’re not ro ...

Critic James Fisher claims that “Belief in progress, in compassion, in the transformative power of love, in true community is t ...

2 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present John M. Clum, Still Acting Gay: Male Homosexuality in Modern Drama (New York: St. M ...

because she grew up in her parents’ household: “I feel Indian not because of the time I spent in India or because of my genetic ...

20 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Pakistan, hears that India is threatening to go to war with Pakistan, his shock is ...

the title story Mr. Kapasi and Mrs. Das each imagine very different connec- tions with the other person. What leads to the compl ...

22 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present becomes tied to ritual. The article by Williams would be most useful; Mitra’s shoul ...

Criticism Jennifer Bess, “Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies,” Explicator, 62 (Winter 2004): 125–128. Discusses “Mrs. Sen’s,” “Thi ...