Research Guide to American Literature

2 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present In the decades following Shepard’s disappointing Broadway opening, he tried to avoi ...

props demanded by the script.” The play’s realism and accessibility contribute to its enduring popularity with audiences and cri ...

2 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present his dentures. Students interested in exploring Shepard’s life might examine biograp ...

reasons for each of the brother’s weak identity formation and consider the backstory about the father. How is each brother subco ...

2 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Kimball King, Sam Shepard: A Casebook (New York: Garland, 1988). An essential colle ...

An examination of the “competing, even contradictory, visions of the West” in Shepard’s family trilogy that challenges readings ...

0 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present John and Leslie Marmon Silko eventually divorced; in 1976 she returned to Laguna Pu ...

Sand Lizard people who are separated, one ending up traveling Victorian Europe. Gardens and botanical interests connect characte ...

2 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present mixed status? What does Tayo’s quest for the cattle ultimately reveal about having ...

RESOURCES Primary Works Ellen L. Arnold, ed., Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko ( Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, ...

 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Allan Chavkin, ed., Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony: A Casebook (New York: Oxford Un ...

Swan, “Laguna Symbolic Geography and Silko’s Ceremony,” American Indian Quarterly, 12, 3 (Summer 1988): 229–249. Detailed examin ...

 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present (2008) was less well received than its predecessor. Updike’s later novels are seen ...

wealthy. Father-son conflicts are heightened as Nelson becomes a cocaine addict and then experiences a religious conversion. Rab ...

 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Updike is generally thought of as a writer who has focused on white Protes- tant l ...

ture in which it lives? The articles by Richard G. Androne and Stacey Olster should be consulted, along with Vargo’s “Corn Chips ...

0 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Criticism Kerry Ahearn, “Family and Adultery: Images and Ideas in Updike’s Rabbit N ...

Michiko Kakutani, “Critic’s Notebook: Updike’s Long Struggle to Portray Women,” New York Times, 5 May 1988, C: 29 http://www3.ny ...

2 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present in Rabbit Is Rich and dies in Rabbit at Rest, transcends these conflicts to experi- ...

conformity to social norms. Unable to reconcile her political commitments with those of the institution, Walker withdrew from Sp ...