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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 35, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn 1888, when George Washington Cable, the New Orleans author who had gained fame through his Creole stories and novels, published three stories of Acadian Louisiana as a novel tided Bonaventure, the book was the...
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From:Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers (Vol. 19, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedFor women, for the dispossessed, for the colonized, for the survivors of genocide, the remembrance of history tends to be painful. One response to the loss of people and homeland has been to recreate, recover, and...
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From:New Criterion (Vol. 21, Issue 7)The territory Peter Taylor staked out for himself may be summed up easily and neatly enough. His characters are primarily upper-middle-class and upper-class people from the upper, as opposed to the "deep," south, living...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersFrom Rosemary's Baby (1967) to Sliver (1991), horror author Ira Levin has explored the darker side of human, and not-so-human, nature. Popularly considered a "master builder of psychological thrillers," Levin takes...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersGrace Paley's literary career anticipates the emergence of feminism among both intellectuals and creative writers in the American 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. In nearly all of her stories one senses the presence of a woman...
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From:Gay & Lesbian BiographyAn African-American writer of poems, plays, and short stories, Angelina Weld Grimke suffered through a life of suppression. Battered by racism and muffled by homophobia, she never lived up to her early literary promise...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Russell Hoban's six novels for adults have a compelling strangeness made up of the most elusive aspects of myth, riddle, history, fantasy, philosophy, and humor. For many readers this is a deeply intriguing mixture which...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 1. )In Dear Sammy: Letters from Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, author Samuel M. Steward describes a conversation he had with Gertrude Stein in 1939 where she suddenly grabs his knee and asks, "Sammy, do you think that...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)It was once said that William James was not really a philosopher: his excursions into philosophy were more “in the nature of raids.” This is something of an exaggeration. Nevertheless, those viewing James only from the...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersJude Gilliam White, whose pen name is Jude Deveraux, is known for her historical romances or, as they are more colloquially known, "bodice rippers." Although she early on tried her hand at the contemporary romance with...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Gertrude Atherton was a popular and prolific writer, publishing nearly forty novels, several volumes of short stories, three collections of essays, a history of California, two books about San Francisco, a selection of...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersEllen Gilchrist made a splash on the literary scene in 1981 with a well-received collection of short stories entitled In the Land of Dreamy Dreams. In these stories Gilchrist details the lives of the beautiful and...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)In Louise Erdrich's third novel, certain members of the Pillager Kashpaw families are behind in paying the government their annual fees on the reserve land that has always been theirs but that is now under government...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)In his review of the Yale Repertory Theatre production of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom in 1984, the New York Times critic Frank Rich hailed August Wilson as a "major find for the American Theatre." Within the next eight...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 2. )Any movement for change born out of the desire of a social minority to be heard and acknowledged will generate a literature which both articulates political goals and reflects the internal realities of the group. This...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 2. )In 1990 the Freudian anti-feminist Camille Paglia burst onto the cultural criticism scene with Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence From Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, a probing study of the nature of sexual tropes through...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Ring Lardner wrote in the tradition of a long line of American popular journalists and humorists who exploited slang and the illiteracies of vernacular speech for comic ends. In doing so, he transmuted what was initially...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)In an editorial headnote in Letters, E. B. White refers to the "squibs and poems" that he began submitting to the New Yorker shortly after it was founded in 1925. He joined the staff of the magazine two years later and...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Critics are divided as to whether Edward Albee is a realist or absurdist. Critics and public are divided as to the quality of his writing after Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Actors and directors are divided as to...
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From:Contemporary Poets (6th ed.)Amiri Baraka's assessment of his own career in the preface to Black Magic: Collected Poetry 1961-1967 seems from this vantage remarkably accurate. He speaks of his development in these terms: You notice [in The Dead...