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American diversity, American identity: the lives and works of 145 writers who define the American experience /


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American diversity, American identity: the lives and works of 145 writers who define the American experience /

Author

Roth, John K.

Series

Henry Holt reference book

Edition

1st ed.

Year of Publication

1995.

Publisher

Holt,

City of Publication

New York

Pages

709

Language

en

ISBN

0805034307

ARI Id

1675052908415


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Prologue: Who Are We Americans?
I. Discoveries of America: Stories Told by Indian Voices. Paula Gunn Allen. Louise Erdrich. Joy Harjo. Linda Hogan. N. Scott Momaday. Lynn Riggs. Leslie Marmon Silko. Gerald Vizenor. James Welch
II. A City Set upon a Hill: American Identities in the Northeast. Louis Auchincloss. Anne Bradstreet. John Cheever. James Fenimore Cooper. Emily Dickinson. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Robert Frost. Nathaniel Hawthorne. John Irving. Washington Irving. Sarah Orne Jewett. William Kennedy. Robert Lowell. Mary McCarthy. Herman Melville. John O'Hara. Eugene O'Neill. J. D. Salinger. Henry David Thoreau. John Updike. Edith Wharton
III. Secular Rabbis: Jewish American Voices. Nelson Algren. Saul Bellow. Norman Mailer. Bernard Malamud. Arthur Miller. Cynthia Ozick. Grace Paley. Chaim Potok. Philip Roth. Isaac Bashevis Singer
IV. The Presence of the Past: American Identities in the South. James Agee. Wendell Berry. Erskine Caldwell. Kate Chopin. William Faulkner. Ellen Glasgow. Cormac McCarthy. Carson McCullers. Flannery O'Connor. Walker Percy. Edgar Allan Poe. Katherine Anne Porter. Reynolds Price. William Styron. Robert Penn Warren. Eudora Welty. Tennessee Williams. Thomas Wolfe
V. Consider Me: Bearers of the African American Tradition. James Baldwin. Gwendolyn Brooks. Rita Dove. Paul Laurence Dunbar. Ralph Ellison. Ernest J. Gaines. Langston Hughes. Zora Neale Hurston. Charles Johnson. Terry McMillan. Gloria Naylor. Ishmael Reed. Jean Toomer. Alice Walker. John Edgar Wideman. August Wilson. Richard Wright
VI. Through Women's Eyes: Re-Visions of America. Ann Beattie. Mary Gordon. Barbara Kingsolver. Joyce Carol Oates. Tillie Olsen. Sylvia Plath. Jane Smiley. Wendy Wasserstein
VII. In the Heart of the Country: American Identities in the Midwest. Sherwood Anderson. Willa Cather. Peter De Vries. Theodore Dreiser. James T. Farrell. Sinclair Lewis. Wright Morris. J. F. Powers. Carl Sandburg. Larry Woiwode
VIII. Americans Abroad: Identities Lost and Found. T. S. Eliot. Ernest Hemingway. Henry James. Ezra Pound. Gertrude Stein
IX. Americans at War: Defining Moments. Stephen Crane. Joseph Heller. James Jones. Tim O'Brien. Thomas Pynchon. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
X. The Geography of Hope: American Identities in the West. Raymond Carver. Joan Didion. Ken Kesey. Louis L'Amour. Jack London. Thomas McGuane. Larry McMurtry. Frank Norris. Sam Shepard. Gary Snyder. Wallace Stegner. John Steinbeck
XI. Voices of the People: Latino Writing and the American Experience. Rudolfo A. Anaya. Jimmy Santiago Baca. Sandra Cisneros. Oscar Hijuelos. Rolando Hinojosa. Gary Soto. Luis Miguel Valdez
XII. Mother Tongue, Father Country: Asian American Identities. Frank Chin. Garrett Hongo. David Henry Hwang. Cynthia Kadohata. Maxine Hong Kingston. Bharati Mukherjee. Cathy Song. Amy Tan
XIII. Balancing Acts: America's Gay and Lesbian Identities. Lisa Alther. Rita Mae Brown. Larry Kramer. David Leavitt. Audre Lorde. Armistead Maupin. Paul Monette. Edmund White. Epilogue: Renewing Visions of America. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Jack Kerouac. Toni Morrison. Adrienne Rich. Mark Twain. Walt Whitman. A Categorized Listing of Writers.
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