Research Guide to American Literature

 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Lee Blessing (1949– ) Playwright whose works include Eleemosynary (1986), A Walk in ...

William Finn (1952– ) Playwright, composer, and lyricist. His musicals include A New Brain (1998, book coauthored with James Lap ...

 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present David Henry Hwang (1957– ) Considered one of the premier Asian American playwrights ...

Donald Margulies (1954– ) Playwright and educator who won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Dinner with Friends. His other plays inclu ...

 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present John Pielmeier (1949– ) Playwright, screen and television-film writer, actor, and di ...

Wendy Wasserstein (1950–2006) Playwright, television and screen writer, essayist, and children’s author. Her plays include Uncom ...

0 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Feminism and Women’s Writing Women’s social movements in the United States can be di ...

in The Feminine Mystique and Sexual Politics. In Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying (1973) a poet leaves her husband to overcome her “f ...

2 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present fiction. Female writers also began to take on violent and disturbing subject mat- te ...

writers, A Literature of Their Own (1977), traces the development of American women’s writing through four stages. The first, wh ...

 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present use alternate worlds to explore and challenge social boundaries and defini- tions re ...

bildungsroman ends with the protagonist’s adjustment to society as a sign of his full development. Students interested in explor ...

 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Lisa Maria Hogeland and Shay Brawn, eds., The Aunt Lute Anthology of U .S. Women Wri ...

Useful essays examining the “notion of difference” in early feminist criticism and identifying issues that remain current. Judit ...

 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Lisa Maria Hogeland, Feminism and Its Fictions: The Consciousness-Raising Novel and ...

Cheryl A. Wall, ed., Changing Our Own Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory, and Writing by Black Women (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutge ...

0 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Toni Cade Bambara (1939–1995) Feminist activist and writer whose collection of stori ...

Marilyn Chin (1955– ) Poet and codirector of the MFA program at San Diego State University who was born in Hong Kong and raised ...

2 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present short-story collection Arranged Marriage (1995); and the novels The Mistress of Spic ...

Plants and of Ghosts (1980), Erosion (1983), The End of Beauty (1987), Region of Unlikeness (1991), Materialism (1993), The Erra ...