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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: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:African American Review (Vol. 44, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Melissa Asher Daniels and Gregory Laski A frican American literature has ended. Or so claims Kenneth W. Warren, whose recent book What Was African American Literature? (2011) was the topic of...
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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:World Literature Today (Vol. 83, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedCentral American literature has slowly gained in status in order to reach its current place in Latin American literary history. Despite this rise in recognition, many of the writers remain little known outside their...
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From:African American Review (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAfter one has considered the black American literary tradition as a continuum of monuments that manifests a sociohistorical progression and rests on a folk base, one must balance the perspective. One cannot delude...
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From: Engaging Tradition, Making It New: Essays on Teaching Recent African American Literature[(essay date 2008) In the following essay, Drake discusses both the difficulties and the merits of interpreting Young and Alexander as exemplars of the “post-soul aesthetic,” which acknowledges the importance of African...
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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:Contemporary Popular WritersStanley Elkin was what so many American writers only try to be: an American original. His combination of the storyteller's essentially oral, seemingly artless style with an exemplary and painstaking dedication to craft...
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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:Hollins Critic (Vol. 25, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn a 1978 interview Toni Morrison commented on the purpose behind storytelling: "People love to hear a story.... That's the way they learn things. That's the way human beings organize their human knowledge--fairy tales,...
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From:Early American Literature (Vol. 38, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedImmigrants to the New World failed to find the Fountain of Youth, but they were thrilled with the qualities of the land and wrote letters home encouraging their family and friends to join their adventurous lives....
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From:Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers (Vol. 19, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI started late. I was forty-two when I received my Ph.D. in 1979. I had had many lives before I went back to graduate school to study Latin American Literature. Actually going back to graduate school was one of the...
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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: Amerasia Journal[(essay date 2012) In the following essay, Cheung examines Jin’s essay collection The Writer as Migrant, focusing on whether expatriate writers can legitimately serve as spokespeople for the citizens of their former...
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From: Americana[(essay date 1940) In the following essay, Griswold analyzes references to Quaker history and culture in the poetry of Whittier, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.] In the annals of the American past...
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From: Religion and Literature[(essay date 2003) In the following essay, Stoneback analyzes the theme of pilgrimage in Hemingway’s short fiction, including The Old Man and the Sea. Stoneback points out Hemingway’s allusion to the famous Catholic...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 7, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe tendency to view the left-wing fiction of the 1930s as an aberration from American literary tradition has been strongly countered by Walter Rideout in his comprehensive study The Radical Novel in the United States...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 46, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed"Some of us lived like crayfish. Some of us lived like turtles. Some of us lived like coiled snakes end to end. Some of us lived like people" (31) --LeAnne Howe "The Chaos of Angels" Anumpa nan anoli sabvnna. (2)...
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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...