Research Guide to American Literature

 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Lewis Thomas (1913–1993) Biologist and physician who was president of Memorial Sloan ...

Multiculturalism and Globalization Since 1970 American literature has been characterized by an extraordinary proliferation of im ...

 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Rudolfo A. Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima (1972), and Rolando Hinojosa-Smith’s Estampas de ...

ingly more obvious as writers added their voices. Arte Público Press, founded in 1979, for example, brought attention to both Cu ...

 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Chicano vs. Mexican, for example) were important to writers in the 1960s and 1970s, ...

stereotypes about particular ethnic groups. Good starting points are offered in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic Americ ...

90 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Like coming-of-age novels, memoir and autobiography by ethnic American writers trac ...

p. 542). Works to consider include (but are not limited to) Sherman Alexie’s Reservation Blues (1995), Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, ...

92 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Wesley Brown and Amy Ling, eds., Imagining America: Stories from the Promised Land: ...

Michael P. Kramer and Hana Wirth-Nesher, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature (New York: Cambridge Univer ...

9 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Exploration of contemporary Jewish American literature within the context of current ...

Comparative analyses of recent ethnic writing that has enlarged the spectrum of American literature. Shirley Geok-lin Lim, John ...

9 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris, eds., Magical Realism: Theory, His- tory, ...

(1982), The Legend of La Llorona (1984), The Adventures of Juan Chicaspatas (1985), Lord of the Dawn: The Legend of Quetzalcóatl ...

9 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Frank Chin (1940– ) Chinese American playwright and fiction writer. He coedited Aiii ...

Jessica Hagedorn (1949– ) Filipino American writer whose works include the poetry collection Pet Food & Tropical Apparitions ...

100 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Kaoru Hongo and Alan Chong Lau; Legends from Camp (1992); and Drawing the Line (199 ...

for the Better: A Story of El Barrio (1993), and A Matter of Pride and Other Stories (1997). Pat Mora (1942– ) Chicana poet, ess ...

102 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Tomás Rivera (1935–1984) Writer, teacher, and administrator born in Texas to Mexica ...

Ed Vega (1936–2008) Novelist and short-story writer born Edgardo Vega Yunqué in Puerto Rico. His works include Comeback (1985), ...