Research Guide to American Literature

2 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present For example, in Morrison’s first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), such issues as the “c ...

A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry across the Americas, 1900–2002 (2002) and Pow-Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American ...

2 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Several black writers of the 1980s and 1990s attracted a general audience, including ...

Me Down Easy, deals with the American health-care system. Suzan-Lori Parks is a prolific and important playwright and screenwrit ...

2 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature (1991) and Karla F. ...

masses.” Orators addressed themes such as the common enemy, American hypocrisy, threatened black manhood, and black unity as a p ...

0 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present explosion of writing by African American women in the last three decades of the twen ...

Examines the oral tradition in African American poetry, short fiction, and novels. Jones offers readings of works by Michael S. ...

2 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present work include The Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones (1979) and the vol- ume ...

June Jordan (1936–2002) Poet, novelist, dramatist, and activist of Caribbean heritage who began her career as part of the Black ...

 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Walter Mosley (1952– ) Best known for his Easy Rawlins crime series, which comprises ...

Ntozake Shange (1948– ) Playwright, poet, novelist, children’s writer, and feminist whose plays include A Photograph: A Study of ...

 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Contemporary American Drama Since 1970 American theater has variously entertained, c ...

African American Drama August Wilson is an African American playwright and one of this country’s greatest dramatists. His magnum ...

 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present ing grandfather’s coma, and they all bond over birthday cake. The promiscuous protag ...

victims of the Holocaust. A lesbian with terminal cancer discovers true love in Last Summer at Bluef ish Cove (1980), by Jane Ch ...

0 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present themes—Agnes of God (1982), by John Pielmeier, and Doubt: A Parable (2005), by John ...

RESOURCES by Vera V. Chernysheva, Lynda Hart, Jon D. Rossini, and Stephen Watt, see Nicolás Kanellos, ed., Hispanic Theatre in t ...

2 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present David J. DeRose, “The Speed of Darkness and ‘Crazed Vets on the Doorstep’ Drama,” Vi ...

Jon D. Rossini, Contemporary Latina/o Theater: Wrighting Ethnicity (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008). Discu ...