A History of American Literature

A History of American Literature, Second Edition. Richard Gray.

© 2012 Richard Gray. Published 2012 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Index 857

“A” (Zukofsky), 364

Abbey, Edward, 587

Abel (House Made of Dawn),

784–785

Abish, Walter, 588, 719–720

abolition movement, see

slavery: abolition and

abolitionism

Absalom, Absalom!

(Faulkner), 416, 417, 418

Acoma people

and Ortiz, 779

and Spaniards, 19

stories, 6

Acosta, Oscar Zeta, 756

acting, 678–679

Action (Shepard), 691

Adams, Abigail, 69–70

Adams, Brooke, 291

Adams, Henry, 68, 84,

290–293, 308–310

and Pynchon, 706

Adams, John, 68, 69–70

Adams, John Quincy, 68, 90

Adams, Léonie, 389, 390

The Adding Machine

(Rice), 423

Addison, Joseph, influence, 93

Address to the Negroe

(Hammon), 75

Address to the Whites

(Boudinot), 138

Adorno, Theodor, 720

adultery: literary treatments,

178–183

Adventures in the Alaskan

Skin Trade (Hawkes),

714

The Adventures of Augie

March (Bellow), 578–579

The Adventures of Huckleberry

Finn (Twain), 113,

226–227

and Salinger, 637

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

(Twain), 226–227

“Advice to a Prophet”

(Wilbur), 548

Africa

Baraka on, 644

bibliographies, 477

and Cullen, 493

as Eden, 74, 76

Jordan on, 648

and Kennedy, 664

and Knight, 648

and Malcolm X, 656

Wheatley on, 76

African-Americans

arrival in America,

27, 49

folklore, 480–481, 670

gender issues, 647–648,

672–673, 675–676

Great Migration, 314, 496,

497, 500

magazines, 323, 477

music, 488–491, 496–497,

646–647, 648

and the Revolution,

72–73

Tuskegee Institute, 321

women’s rights, 295–296

see also civil rights

movement; race issues

and relations; slavery

African-Americans:

conditions

early 20th century, 314,

476–477

freed slaves, condition of,

221

postwar, 524, 526

see also slavery

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