Research Guide to American Literature

 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Twenty-five essays tracing Greek, Haitian, Irish Gaelic, Welsh, Spanish, Chinese, a ...

Annotated Bibliography  Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris, eds., Magical Realism: Theory, His- tory, Community (Durham ...

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Glossary 9 Bildungsroman German word, meaning “novel of education,” that has been taken into English. Traditionally the protag ...

70 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Defamiliarization The process by which literature makes one see the familiar and ev ...

Glossary 71 ity, but that also present—seemingly paradoxically—a strong backdrop of historical people and events. Hybridity A t ...

72 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present lighting questions about the relationship between fiction and reality. Metafic- tio ...

Glossary 7 Short-story cycle Also referred to as a short-story sequence, short-story novel, or composite novel. Occupying a sp ...

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Index = 7 A Aaronow (character), 271 Abeng, 61 abolitionism, 219 abortion, 9 About Time, 44 Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Ti ...

7 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation, 187 Ali, Agha Shahid, 6, 119, 124 Alice in B ...

Index 77 Arizona, 12 Tucson, 243 Arizona State University, 219 Arkansas Stamps, 159 Arlie (character), 38 Armageddon in Retrosp ...

7 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Bastard out of Carolina, 51, 59 “Bath, The,” 174 Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, 7 ...

Index 79 Bless Me, Ultima, 75 Bling, 64 Blonde, 289 Blonde Faith, 34, 75 Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose, 1979–1985, 3 ...

0 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present British East India Company, 259 Broadway, 6, 36, 40, 44, 51, 159, 255, 270, 324, 34 ...

Index 1 Caroline, or Change, 37, 256 Carpentier, Alejo, 17 Carrier of Ladders, The, 148 Carter, James Earl “Jimmy,” 8 Carver, ...

2 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present “Civil Rights Movement: What Good Was It?, The,” 343 Civil War, 45 Civil War Christ ...

Index  Cosmopolis, 137, 199 Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day, 62 Counting Survivors, 147 Couples, 335 Cowboy Mouth, The, 322 Cowbo ...