Research Guide to American Literature

 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Susanna Kaysen (1945– ) Writer best known for her memoir, Girl, Interrupted (1993), ...

Kate Millett (1934– ) Activist and feminist writer best known for Sexual Politics (1970). Cherríe Moraga (1952– ) Chicana playwr ...

 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Grace Paley (1922–2007) Social activist and writer whose three volumes of short stor ...

Rain (2004), which relates her retreat to an island with no electricity or telephone while experiencing midlife changes, and To ...

 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Swept Through (1987), Sáani Dahataał: The Women Are Singing (1993), Blue Horses Rush ...

Genre Fiction and Popular Reading The term genre f iction generally refers to works for a general audience that are eas- ily cat ...

70 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present a missing parrot belonging to a mute Jewish boy during World War II, while the great ...

at <www.sfwa.org>. This site includes a list of works awarded the organization’s Nebula Awards and a special section, “For ...

72 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present of the hard-boiled conventions. Along these same lines, one could offer a gender com ...

Focusing on romance, crime fiction and science fiction, identifies the literary features of popular fiction while arguing that i ...

7 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Tania Modleski, Loving with a Vengeance: Mass Produced Fantasies for Women, revised ...

Jane Tompkins, West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992). Overview of the genre a ...

7 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Art Spiegelman (1948– ) Comic artist and editor best known for the comic-book memoir ...

Literature and the Environment Nature and the environment are traditional themes in American literature and have a long history ...

7 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present stewards of the earth and its limited resources. The essays in Lewis Thomas’s The Li ...

Harold Fromm, provides examples from the field and traces the development of this critical movement from the 1960s. Additional t ...

0 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present In her introduction to American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice and Ecocri ...

Robert Pack and Jay Parini, eds., Poems for a Small Planet: Contemporary American Nature Poetry (Hanover, N.H.: University Press ...

2 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present George Hart and Scott Slovic, eds. Literature and the Environment, Exploring Social ...

Joy Harjo (1951– ) Muscogee (Creek) poet and musician who plays saxophone with her band, Poetic Justice. Frank Herbert (1920–198 ...