2 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present
“Civil Rights Movement: What Good
Was It?, The,” 343
Civil War, 45
Civil War Christmas: An American Musical
Celebration, A, 48
Cixous, Hélène, 19
Claiming an Identity They Taught Me to
Despise, 61
Clampitt, Amy, 61
Clay’s Ark, 170
Clean Air Act, 9
Cliff, Michelle, 61, 314
Cliffs Notes, 370
Clifton, Lucille, 13, 25, 32, 51, 61
Climbing the Divide, 148
Clinton, Hillary, 205
Clinton, William Jefferson “Bill,” 6, 10,
14, 27, 160, 205, 249, 318
“Clinton Agonistes,” 207
Close Quarters, 146
Close Range: Wyoming Stories, 52, 307–308
Cloud Chamber, 115
Cloud Moving Hands, 67, 127
Cobb, 44
Cocktail Party, The, 125
code-switching, 369
Codes Appearing: Poems 1979-1988, 127
Cofer, Judith Ortiz, 52, 61, 186
Cohn, Roy, 255
Colbert Report, The (television show), 301
Coldest Day of the Year, The, 348
Cold War, 10, 199, 219, 256
Cole, Tom, 36, 44
Collected Poems, The (Plath), 127
Collected Poems, The (Rukeyser), 148
Collected Poems (Auster), 124
Collected Poems 1937-1971 (Berryman),
124
Collected Poems, 1953–1993 (Updike), 335
Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, The, 32
Collected Stories, The (Paley), 66
Collected Stories (Margulies), 47
College of the Holy Cross, 192
College of Wooster, 315
Collins, Billy, 6, 13, 118, 124, 192–198
Collins, Katherine, 192
Collins, William, 192
Cologne-Brookes, Gavin, 291
Colombia, 4, 17
Colored Museum, The, 37
Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His
White Mother, The, 27, 33
Color Purple: A Novel, The, 24, 37, 47, 65,
342, 344
Colossus, The, 127
Columbia Pictures, 211
Columbia River, 174
Columbia University, 211, 237, 254, 314
Columbia University Academy of
American Poets Prize, 237
Columbine High School (Colorado),
13
Columbus, Christopher, 104
Comfort Woman, 64
comic books, 3, 181
Coming of Age in Soho, 46
Common Wealth Award in Literature,
315
communism, 207
Company, 43
Company of Moths, 127
Complete Poems, The (Sexton), 127
“Comrade Laski, C.P.U.S.A. (M.-L.),”
207
Concordia University, 308
Condé, Maryse, 169
Conduct of Life, The, 37
Congo, 242
Congress, 193
Connecticut
Norwich, 308
Connie (character), 290
Conrad, Alfred, 313
conservatism
social, 10
Constant State of Desire, The, 44
Constitution, 9
“Contrary Women of Alice Walker, The,”
344
Conversations with E. L. Doctorow, 213
Cook, Ralph, 323
Coover, Robert, 14, 130, 137
Copacetic, 33, 147
Corigliano, John, 45
Cornell University, 283, 314
Cornwall, Nancy Hardin, 205
Corpus Christi, 39
Corregidora, 24, 32, 63
Cortázar, Julio, 17
Cosmetic Surgery, 48