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From:Feminist WritersTillie Olsen's life and art reflect her commitment to providing a voice for working-class men, women, and children silenced in a world divided by gender, class, and race. As a feminist writer, Olsen's vision is filtered...
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From: Jonathan Edwards at Home and Abroad: Historical Memories, Cultural Movements, Global Horizons[(essay date 2003) In the following essay, Lesser compares the flourishing early international interest in Edwards’s theology, philosophy, and works with the primarily American scholarship on Edwards that has prevailed...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersPhilip Roth is one of the leading writers of contemporary fiction. He is often called the funniest and most innovative contemporary American writer and has been referred to as the "American Franz Kafka." Humor based on...
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From:Contemporary Popular Writers"Contemporary Native American writers have a task quite different," Louise Erdrich has argued, from that of other contemporary American writers. "In the light of enormous loss, they must tell the stories of contemporary...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersNobel laureate Toni Morrison transcends racial and class boundaries to appeal to readers of all ages and educational backgrounds. Though she has written six novels, two books of critical commentary, and was commissioned...
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From: Jean Toomer and the Terrors of American HistoryJean Toomer and the Terrors of American History is about a literary life and its complicated relationships to the social, political, and economic worlds in which the writer lived and worked. In particular it is about the...
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From: Acta Scientiarum: Language and Culture[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, Martins discusses how Anglo- and African American literature have influenced each other, focusing on Walker's The Color Purple, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, and Lorraine...
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From: Complicating Constructions: Race, Ethnicity, and Hybridity in American Texts[(essay date 2007) In the following essay, Royal calls for a revised critical approach to Jewish American literature on two counts. First, he argues that European American literature has been unfairly neglected in the...
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From: Studies in Short Fiction[(essay date fall 1997) In the following essay, Stout uses Gloria Anzaldúa's theory of cultural duality to characterize "The Old Order" as occupying "a psychological borderland between past and present that is defined as...
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From: Colby Quarterly[(essay date 1982) In the following essay, Naylor considers Wright’s “The Man Who Lived Underground” alongside other works of African American fiction, finding in them “a deeply spiritual, ‘holistic’ element which...
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From: Queerdom: Gender Displacements in a Transnational Context[(essay date 2009) In the following essay, Bavaro examines the notions of homecoming and displacement in The Book of Salt, focusing specifically on the way queer experience intersects with such concerns.] The issues of...
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From: Black Fiction: New Studies in the Afro-American Novel since 1945[(essay date 1980) In the following essay, Gross presents an overview of Petry’s writing, including her young-adult books Harriet Tubman and Tituba of Salem Village. He situates Petry’s work within the literary...
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From:Feminist WritersMarge Piercy is one of America's foremost feminist writers; and is certainly one of the most prolific. She has achieved distinction as both a novelist and poet, and has also produced a fairly substantial body of...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Since receiving the Nobel Prize, Saul Bellow has been assured of an important position in American literature, but this position is not really a new one. For more than thirty years, at least since the publication of his...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)John Hawkes, perhaps the most original American novelist since Faulkner, bears only superficial resemblances to other contemporary innovators. His work is distinctly less philosophical and less parodic than that of...
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From: Contemporary American Crime Fiction[(essay date 2001) In the following essay, Bertens and D'haen trace the development of ethnic detective fiction in the twentieth century, discussing such authors as Tony Hillerman, Walter Mosley, and Dale Furutani.]...
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From: Critique[(essay date fall 1989) In the following essay, Flavin asserts that Love Medicine is a novel about "disintegration and breaking connections, and of bonding and restoration."] Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine appeared in...
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From: College English[(essay date April 1943) In the following essay, Waggoner explores the role of scientific thought in MacLeish's poetic representation of infinity and eternity.] Since the time of Edward Taylor the chief philosophical...
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From: 49th Parallel[(essay date 2019) In the following essay, Goldstein offers praise for Chin’s characterization of the Chinese American male in the novel Donald Duk, which, he observes, “masterfully infuses the American novelistic form...
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From: Colby Quarterly[(essay date 1982) In the following essay, Naylor argues that Daniels is on a journey to hell and that he needs to learn “to establish and maintain his identity and his autonomy in a world whose only purpose seems to be...