A History of American Literature

890 Index

music (cont’d)

rock and roll, 522

see also blues; jazz

musicals, 678–679

musicians: literary

treatments, 667, 793–795

Muske-Dukes, Carol, 827

My Ántonia (Cather), 316,

334–335

“My Burial Place” (Jeffers),

358

My Heart’s in the Highlands

(Saroyan), 424

My Life (Hejinian), 722, 724

My Life by Water

(Niedecker), 366

“My Lost Youth”

(Longfellow), 204

My Mother’s Body (Piercy),

744

Myrdal, Gunnar, 492

The Mysterious Stranger

(Twain), 230

mystery novels, 99, 728–734

see also crime novels;

thrillers

mysticism

and Duncan, 605–606

and Modernist poets, 392,

395–397

and Silko, 785–786

and Toomer, 486

myths and legends

Baraka on, 666

Delany’s use of, 738

Ellison on, 652

Jeffers’s use of, 356–357

Kingston’s use of, 767–769

Le Sueur’s use of, 459–460

in postwar poetry, 532–534

Pound’s use of, 368

Roethke’s use of, 553

Rukeyser’s use of, 393

Updike’s use of, 584

West’s use of, 516

myths and legends: American,

92–114

baseball, 576

Berger on, 715

Kopit on, 689

Mamet on, 695

Shepard on, 693

Westerns, 504–505

myths and legends: Native

American, 4–18, 135,

298–299, 475–476

Erdrich’s use of, 788–789

Harjo’s use of, 781

Momaday’s use of, 783

Vizenor’s use of, 790–792

NAACP, see National

Association for the

Advancement of

Colored People

Nabokov, Vladimir, 568, 705,

719, 745–748

The Naked and the Dead

(Mailer), 570, 571

Naked Genius (Horton), 145

The Naked Lunch

(Burroughs), 633–634

The Names: A Memoir

(Momaday), 783

Nanapush (Tracks), 789–790

Narrative of Sojourner Truth

(Truth), 160

Narrative of the Life of

Frederick Douglass

(Douglass), 128–130

narrators

African-American, 326

in Barth, 709

in Brown, 86–87

in Ellis, 735

in Hamid, 802–804

in James, 261, 264

and Nabokov, 745–747

Narváez, Pánfilo de, 20

Nash, Ogden, 391, 510

Nassagansett people, 34, 35

Nathan, George Jean, 339, 506

Nation, 256

Nation of Islam, 640, 656

National Anti-Slavery

Standard, 155

National Association for the

Advancement of

Colored People

(NAACP), 323, 324, 325

National Era, 172

National Negro Business

League, 321

National Negro Convention,

143

Native Americans

Columbus on, 1–2

conversion to Christianity,

2, 15, 17–19, 47

cultural disorientation,

296–298

culture, 297, 298

Dwight on, 79

first use of term, 137–138

Franklin on, 62

Freneau on, 78

Fuller on, 119

history, 136

Jefferson on, 67

and Le Sueur, 461

Mather on, 44–45

newspapers, 91, 234

Parkman on, 101, 102

and the Revolution, 71–73

rights, 296–298

and Spanish, 14–21

Thoreau on, 126

Wounded Knee massacre,

295, 297, 525

Native Americans: conditions

19th century, 221–222

20th century, 313–314, 525

assimilation, 221–222,

296, 297

land dispossessions, 90,

138–139

postwar popularity and

importance, 528

Native Americans: literary

treatments

18th century, 52

19th century, 97–98,

100, 102–104, 154,

199–200, 203

20th century, 342, 715

captivity narratives, 20–21,

26, 44–46

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