american literature

Presents a comprehensive teacher's manual to use with the ten novels in the Bluford Series and includes reading, writing, and thinking activities, summaries of each novel, character analysis, discussion questions and vocabulary exercises, and short writing assignments.

Provides a collection of prose and poetry that examines issues relating to immigration and includes artists such as Li-Young Lee, Jamaica Kincaid, and Helena Maria Viramontes.

A collection of essays and poetry about Haitian-Americans who travel between their country of origin and America and the experiences which bind them together.

Provides biographical information on more than seventy prominent writers representing the nineteenth-century literary renaissance in America. Includes descriptions of the authors' major works and information on the critical reception they received.

Contains four alphabetically-arranged volumes with multiple essays on American literature from 1650 to 2003, and covers poems, novels, plays, journals, and criticism.

"Solidly authoritative and comprehensive, The Companion to Southern Literature spans the genres, languages, ideologies, events, culture, literary history, works, and writers that comprise the literature of the South. From incest to grits, topics are wide-ranging and eclectic. It features alphabetical and topical tables of contents and a thorough index that allows users to find important names that may lack an entry. With more than 500 entries by 200 contributors, the book contains signed essays that are critical and complete with cross-references and a brief bibliography. This companion's affordability and comprehensiveness make it a value and a prized reference work."--"The Best of the Best Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2003.