Research Guide to American Literature

(Marvins-Underground-K-12) #1

  • Part I: OvervIew Series Introduction .xv

    • Boundaries of the Period

    • Dominant Genres and Literary Forms

    • Historical and Social Context

    • Literary Influences

    • Evolution of Critical Opinion



  • Part II: Study GuIdeS On Gener al tOPIcS

    • African American Literature

    • Contemporary American Drama

      • Vietnam, the Middle East, and American Drama

      • African American Drama

      • Feminist Drama

      • Gay and Lesbian Drama



    • Feminism and Women’s Writing

    • Genre Fiction and Popular Reading

    • Literature and the Environment

    • Multiculturalism and Globalization

    • The Native American Renaissance

    • Poetry—Debates and Developments

    • Postmodernism

    • Vietnam War (and Antiwar) Literature



  • Part III: Study GuIdeS On wOrkS and wrIterS

    • Tonto Fistf ight in Heaven Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and

    • Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings



  • T. Coraghessan Boyle, Tortilla Curtain

  • Octavia Butler, Kindred

  • Raymond Carver, Where I’m Calling From

    • of Kavalier and Clay Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures



  • Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street

  • Billy Collins

  • Don DeLillo, White Noise

    • in Order to Live: Collected Nonf iction Joan Didion, We Tell Ourselves Stories



  • E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime

  • Rita Dove, Selected Poems

  • Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine

  • Ernest J. Gaines, A Gathering of Old Men

  • Louise Glück

  • Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees

    • Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior:



  • Tony Kushner, Angels in America

  • Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

  • Li-Young Lee, Rose

  • David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross

  • Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

  • Toni Morrison, Beloved

    • New and Selected Stories Joyce Carol Oates, High Lonesome:



  • Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried

  • Robert Pinsky

  • Annie Proulx, Close Range: Wyoming Stories

  • Adrienne Rich

  • Philip Roth, The Human Stain

  • Sam Shepard, True West

  • Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

    • Rabbit at Rest John Updike, Rabbit, Redux; Rabbit Is Rich;



  • Alice Walker, The Color Purple

  • August Wilson, The Piano Lesson

  • Part I v: annOtated BIBlIOGr aPhy

  • Part v: GlOSSary

    • Index



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