910 Index
“We Real Cool” (Brooks),
495–496
wealth, individual
19th century, 222–223
20th century, 317–318,
523–524
“Weaving” (Larcom), 202
The Web and the Rock
(Wolfe), 463
Webber, George (Wolfe
character), 463
A Week on the Concord and
Merrimack Rivers
(Thoreau), 122
Weill, Kurt, 424
Weiner, Hannah, 724
Weird Tales, 736
Welch, James, 782, 787–788,
792
Welcome to Hard Times
(Doctorow), 576
Weld, Angelina Grimké,
155–157
Wells, H. G., 276
Welty, Eudora, 588–590, 730
West
Arican right to settle,
232–233
West: literary treatments,
19th century, 95–98, 99,
101–104, 190–191, 200,
231–232
West: literary treatments,
20th century
detective novels, 734
early, 298–299, 316, 327,
333–336, 342, 465
musicals, 678–679
poetry, 356–359, 444,
537, 553
postmodern novels, 715
postwar drama, 692–693
postwar novels, 573–574,
576, 587–588, 597–598
postwar poetry, 604–605
Westerns, 503–506, 730
West, Dorothy, 497–498
West, Nathanael, 319,
515–517
West Indians: literary
treatments, 676–677
“The Western Emigrant”
(Sigourney), 200
Western Story, 505
Westerns, 503–506, 730
Westward Ho! (Miller), 232
Weyden, Humphrey Van
(The Sea-Wolf), 280
Whalen, Philip, 608–609,
611, 827
Wharton, Edith, 327–330
What I Believe Transpiration/
Transpiring Minnesota
(Grenier), 723
What Maisie Knew (James),
267–268
“What mystery pervades a
well!” (Dickinson),
214–215, 353
what the hell for you left your
heart in san francisco
(Santos), 776
Wheatley, Phillis, 72, 75–77
Wheatley, Susanne, 75
“When de Saints Go
Ma’ching Home”
(Brown), 492
“When the Frost is on the
Punkin” (Riley), 233
“Where Are You Going,
Where Have You Been?”
(Oates), 594
Where Do We Live (Shinn),
813–814
Where is Vietnam? American
Poets Respond, 546
“Where Knock is Open Wide”
(Roethke), 553
Whitaker, Alexander, 23
White, E. B., 511
White, Hayden, x
White, Walter, 478–479
“White Foolscap” (Howe),
726
White-Jacket (Melville), 185
White Jazz (Ellroy), 731
“The White Negro”
(Mailer), 571
White Noise (DeLillo),
585–586
Whitecloud, Thomas S.,
472–473, 474
whites, in Native American
stories
creation of, 4, 6–7
encounters with Native
Americans, 3–4, 5, 8,
10, 17
Whitman, Walt, 207–212
on America, 78, 80,
207–212, 448
on the Civil War, 220
Cunningham on, 444
Eberhart on, 445
and Eliot, 374–375
and Gold, 455
and Hughes, 489–490
Ignatow on, 543
influence, 612, 616, 635,
825–826
Kafka on, 318
and newspapers, 91–92
Stein on, 398
Whittemore, Reed, 534, 549
Whittier, John Greenleaf,
147–148
“Who Among You Knows the
Essence of Garlic?”
(Hongo), 773
Who Speaks for the Negro?
(Warren), 439
Who’s Afraid of Virginia
Woolf? (Albee), 690–691
Why Are We in Vietnam?
(Mailer), 570
“Wichita Vortex Sutra”
(Ginsberg), 613
The Wide, Wide World
(Warner), 92
Wideman, John Edgar,
661–662
Wideman, Robert Hill, 780
Wieland (Brown), 85–86, 87
Wieners, John, 602
Wife (Mukherjee), 777
The Wife of His Youth
(Chesnutt), 251, 253
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