american literature

Profiles more than twenty significant African-American writers from the period 1940-55, presenting primary and secondary bibliographies and illustrated biographical essays that chronicle each writer's career in detail.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide career biographies of thirty-three African-American writers active before the Harlem Renaissance; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography.

Presents a short biography on Ralph Waldo Emerson, and historical essays written on the social, cultural, and political relevance of his thinking on natural science, individualism, religion, slavery, and women's rights.

Collection of stories, poems, essays, and speeches from a wide range of writers reflecting the diversity of American culture.

Contains selections of stories, poems, and essays by over eighty African-American writers.

Presents a selection of poems, short stories, novel excerpts, essays, and other writings by African-American authors, grouped by theme, with biographical introductions, and vocabulary notes.

An anthology of stories, poems, and memoirs by various writers which explore various aspects of immigration in the United States.

Collection of 135 works exploring the impact of Latino culture on American society.