92 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present
Indian Americans, 260
Indiana University, 63
Indian Child Welfare Act, 243
“Indian in Literature Is Catching Up,
The,” 106
Indian Killer, 107, 154
Indian Lawyer, The, 116
Indonesia
Jakarta, 264
Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation,
The, 302
Inf inite Jest, 138
In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women,
343
In Mad Love and War, 63, 115, 125
In My Father’s House, 232
Innaurato, Albert, 38, 46
Inner Circle, The, 165, 370
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens, 345
“Intact World, An,” 220
Intelligent Homosexual ’s Guide to
Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to
the Scriptures, The, 256
International Society for Semantics, 269
Internet, 6, 11, 15, 129
Interpreter of Maladies, 15, 258
interracial relationships, 233
Interrogations at Noon, 125
Intersecting Circles: The Voices of Hapa
Women in Poetry and Prose, 64
intertextuality, 371
In the Bear’s House, 115
“In the Field,” 295
In the Fourth World, 62
In the Lake of the Woods, 296
In the Presence of the Sun, 115
In the Shadow of No Towers, 13
In the Time of the Butterflies, 59
Intimate Apparel, 47
Into the Woods, 46
“Introduction to Poetry,” 192
Intuitionist, The, 26, 35, 138
Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies,
62
Invisible Man, 26, 34
Invisible Writer, 291
Iowa, 175
Iowa Writers’ Workshop, 65, 164, 174–
175, 186, 218
Iphigenia 2 .0, 36
Iran, 12
embassy hostages, 8
Tehran, 8
Iraq, 6, 10–12, 36, 248
Baghdad, 12
Ireland, 17
Irigaray, Luce, 19
“Irises,” 265
Ironson, Louis (character), 255
irony, 371
I Shall Not Be Moved, 160
Ishiguro, Kazuo, 17
Isikoff, Michael, 207
Islam, 259
Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio, An, 61
Isn’t It Romantic? 49, 68
Israel, 8, 70, 219
“Is There a Text in This Class?,” 19
“It’s All Over Now Baby Blue,” 290
Italian-American Reconciliation, 48
Italy, 17, 238
Milan, 12
Itch Like Crazy, 116J
Jackson, Jesse, 12
Jackson, Jon, 200
Jackson State College, 343
Jackson State University, 8
Jalamanta: A Message from the Desert,
75
Jamaica, 61
James Baldwin Award for Literary
Excellence, 32
Jameson, Fredric, 129, 138, 198
Janowitz, Tama, 370
Japan, 17, 264
Jarrett, Robert L., 277
Jar the Floor, 49
Jasmine, 65
Jauss, David, 117
jazz, 6, 37, 119, 192, 323, 348
Jazz, 51, 283
Jefferson, Augusteen, 231
Jeffrey, 15, 39
Jelly’s Last Jam, 37
Jelly Roll, 25, 35
Jemez Spring, 70, 75
Jen, Gish, 52, 63
Jerome Fellowship, 348