Research Guide to American Literature

 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Contrary Women of Alice Walker” for a discussion of how the women of these stories ...

father and daughter are reunited. This overly romanticized film ending is said to undermine the novel’s primary premise. The Col ...

 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present or displace concerns about race and class? Read bell hooks and Trudier Harris for i ...

Trudier Harris, “On The Color Purple, Stereotypes, and Silence,” Black American Literature Forum, 4 (1984): 155–161. Argues that ...

 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present suburb where they faced overt racism that caused Wilson to move from school to scho ...

purposefully didn’t read them.” Unencumbered by tradition, Wilson created his own rules, relying instead on what he refers to as ...

0 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present TOPICS FOR RESEARCH AND DISCUSSION Pressed to take sides, Doaker, the siblings’ un ...

social and cultural equality. By having Brown’s Christian-influenced attempts to exorcise Sutter’s ghost fail, Wilson undercuts ...

2 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present The Ground on Which I Stand (New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2001). An addr ...

Sandra G. Shannon, The Dramatic Vision of August Wilson (Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1994). An excellent overview ...

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Annotated Bibliography 357 John W. Aldridge, Talents and Technicians: Literary Chic and the New Assembly- Line Fiction (New York ...

 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present sentations of Chicanos and Chicanas; genre, ideology, and history; and aesthetics. ...

Annotated Bibliography 9 Well-chosen collection of poetry in a wide variety of forms that includes works by major poets. The b ...

0 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present torical, and biographical contexts for the readings, while the section “A Casebook ...

Annotated Bibliography 1 Useful overviews of many topics in contemporary literature (although some essays, and the first halve ...

2 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present in drama, and confession as central in poetry and autobiography. She includes dis- ...

Annotated Bibliography  A. Poulin Jr. and Michael Waters, eds., Contemporary American Poetry, eighth edi- tion (Belmont, Cal. ...