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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:Short Story Criticism (Vol. 65. )REPRESENTATIVE WORKS:James Lane AllenFlute and Violin and Other Kentucky Tales and Romances (short stories) 1891A Kentucky Cardinal: A Story (novella) 1895Aftermath: Part Second of "A Kentucky Cardinal" (novella)...
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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:Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 186. )REPRESENTATIVE WORKS: Eric BentleyAre You Now or Have You Ever Been? (play) 1972Helen Bevington"Report from the Carolinas" (poetry) 1952The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm (memoir) 1971Ray BradburyThe Martian...
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From: Modern Fiction Studies[(essay date spring 1998) In the following essay, Kandiyoti compares two works of Jewish immigration fiction: Abraham Cahan's Yekl and Alberto Gerchunoff's Los Gauchos Judios, and with the section on Gerchunoff, she...
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From: Modern Language Quarterly[(essay date December 2000) In the following essay, Patterson examines the jazz poetics and the modernistic aspects of Hughes's verse.] In 1940 Richard Wright, praising Langston Hughes's contribution to the development...