904 IndexSociety of Friends, see
Quakers
Sociology for the South
(Fitzhugh), 149
Sojourner Truth (Truth), 160
Soldier’s Pay (Faulkner), 416
“Soliloquy of a Housemaid”
(Fern), 158
solipsism
and Poe, 107
and Stevens, 382
solitude
and Hawthorne, 178
and Hemingway, 411–412
and Poe, 107
and Thoreau, 123–125
see also loneliness
Solomon, Carl, 613
Solstice (Oates), 594
Some Kind of Love Story
(Miller), 683
“Some Trees” (Ashbery), 621
“Somebody Blew Up
America” (Baraka), 816,
817–818
“Someone is Harshly
Coughing as Before”
(Schwartz), 542
“Something Whispered
in the Shakukachi”
(Hongo), 773
“somewhere i have never
travelled, gladly beyond”
(cummings), 391
A Son of the Forest (Apess), 136
A Son of the Middle Border
(Garland), 270–271
Sondheim, Stephen, 679
Sone, Monica, 770–771
Song (M. Butterfly), 699
Song, Cathy, 764–765
The Song of Hiawatha
(Longfellow), 203
“Song of Myself ” (Whitman),
209–210, 211, 212
Song of Solomon (Morrison),
669
The Song of the Lark (Cather),
333–334songs
corridos, 293–294
folksongs, 197–199
Johnson, 325
musicals, 678–679
Native American, 294, 298
spirituals, 196–197, 325
Sontag, Susan, 596–597
Sophie’s Choice (Styron),
573, 743
Sorrentino, Gilbert, 717
The Sot-Weed Factor (Barth),
711
The Sot-weed Factor (Cook),
55–56
Soto, Gary, 749
Soto, Hernando De, 20
The Soul of the Indian
(Eastman), 297
Soul on Ice (Cleaver), 640
The Souls of Black Folk (Du
Bois), 314, 322–324, 326
sound, and Zukofsky, 363
The Sound and the Fury
(Faulkner), 415, 417–420
South
freed slaves, condition of,
221
slavery, attitudes to, 89–90
see also slavery
South: literary treatments,
18th century, 52–53
South: literary treatments,
19th century, 105–114,
149–154, 224–231
regionalists, 239–255
Southern Gothic, 105,
107–108
South: literary treatments,
20th century
African-American,
485–487, 499–500, 660,
673, 675
Agrarians, 434
early, 316, 319, 327,
330–333, 340
Fugitives, 431, 432–434,
436–439, 442–444
Modernist, 401, 415–420plantation romances,
512–514
postmodern novels, 718
post-9/11, 797
postwar drama, 684–687,
697
postwar novels, 573, 587,
588–596, 595–596, 673
postwar poetry, 565
radicals, 457
traditionalists, 442–444
South Today, 457
Southern, Terry, 718
Southwest: literary treatments
19th century, 109–114
20th century, 327, 333–334
corridos, 293–294
oral traditions, 139–141
Southwest humorists,
111–114
and Caldwell, 456
and nostalgia, 242–243
and Twain, 228
Southworth, E. D. E. N., 92
The Sovereignty and Goodness
of GOD (Rowlandson), 44
Spanish Civil War
literary treatments, 449
Parker on, 512
Spanish explorers, 14–16,
17–21
speech
language poets on, 722
see also vernacular, use of
Speed-the-Plow (Mamet), 695
Spencer, Anne, 492, 493
Spicer, Jack, 608
Spider Man (Sioux character),
4, 10
Spider Woman (Navajo
character), 8
Spillane, Micky, 727–728
Spires, Elizabeth, 566, 821,
822
Spirit House, 645
Spirit of the Times, 110, 113
spirituality
Emerson on, 114–119
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