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Aaronow (character), 271
Abeng, 61
abolitionism, 219
abortion, 9
About Time, 44
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time
Indian, The, 153
Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth:
New Poems, 345
Abu Ghraib, 12
Academic Squaw: Reports to the World from
the Ivory Tower, 116
Academy Award, 48, 147, 277
Academy of American Poets, 193
Lamont Poetry Selection, 266
Accidental Tourist, The, 68
Accordion Crimes, 308
Acolytes, 62
acquired immune deficiency syndrome
(AIDS), 9, 15, 38–39, 46, 254, 256
Adams, Nick (character), 243
Adams, Rachel, 131
“Adolescence—I,” 219
“Adolescence—II,” 219
Adultery and Other Choices, 5
Adventures of Juan Chicaspatas, The, 75
Advice from a Caterpillar, 43
Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize,
199
Aeschylus, 36, 349
Afghanistan, 6, 11–12, 36, 256
Africa, 70, 160, 219
diaspora, 169
African Americans, 4, 12, 132, 138, 159,
212, 219–220, 232–233, 277, 283–284,
318, 344, 347, 349, 369
drama, 37
feminism, 51, 169
fiction, 70
literature of, 23–35
Vietnam War, 141
African American studies, 18
After, 13, 125
After Our War, 141, 145
“After Reading Mickey in the Night
Kitchen for the Third Time Before
Bed,” 220
After the Noise of Saigon, 140, 147
Agatha Award, 34, 75
Age of Grief, The, 67
Agnes of God, 40
Ahab’s Wife; or, The Star-Gazer, 52
Ahearn, Kerry, 337
Ai, 59
AIDS and Its Metaphors, 67
Ain’t Misbehavin’, 37
Air Force, U.S., 275, 323
A Is for Alibi, 62
al-Qaeda, 11
Alabama
Selma, 309
“Alabanza,” 13
Alaska, 12, 70, 181, 275
Ketchikan, 329
Alaya, 125
Albee, Edward, 6, 17, 36, 43
Alburquerque, 75
Alcatraz Island, 104
Alcoholics Anonymous, 175
alcoholism, 174
Alexander, Elizabeth, 6
Alexander, Meena, 59, 124
Alexandria, Saint, 219
Alexie, Sherman, 105, 153–158, 373
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 5