Research Guide to American Literature

1 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present RESOURCES Primary Works Kevin Bowen and Bruce Weigl, eds., Writing between the Line ...

Vietnam War (and Antiwar) Literature 1 Part of the Contributions in Military Studies series, this unique collection of essays ...

1 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Robert Olen Butler (1945– ) Fiction writer who became fluent in Vietnamese while wo ...

Vietnam War (and Antiwar) Literature 17 Yusef Komunyakaa (1947– ) Born James Willie Brown Jr., a poet who received the Pulitzer ...

1 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Caliban in Blue (1976), The Flying Dutchman (1987), Rafting the Brazos (1988), Afte ...

Vietnam War (and Antiwar) Literature 19 Bruce Weigl (1949– ) Poet who served in the United States Army in Vietnam from 1967 to ...

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Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistf ight in Heaven (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1993) Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr ...

1 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Silko, Joy Harjo, Simon Ortiz, and Adrian Louis. He also speaks enthusiasti- cally ...

because white men have been doing that forever and Indian men have just learned how. That’s how assimilation can work.” In addit ...

1 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present several years before, questioned not so much as a suspect but as someone who might ...

Dave Welch, “Revising Sherman Alexie,” interview held on 15 May 2007 in Portland, Oregon, Powell ’s Books, http://www.powells.co ...

1 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Stephen F. Evans, “‘Open Containers’: Sherman Alexie’s Drunken Indians,” American I ...

Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (New York: Random House, 1970) In a 1977 interview with Jeffrey M. Elliot, Maya An ...

10 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present and of a series of relationships with men she describes in retrospect as “danger- o ...

Useful for students who want a quick overview is “Maya Angelou: Global Renaissance Woman,” her official website at http://mayaan ...

12 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present the beating of wings in the poem? Who or what encourages her to keep striving, and ...

Criticism Joanne M. Braxton, Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: A Case- book (New York: Oxford University Press, 19 ...