american literature

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american literature

One flew over the cuckoo's nest : notes

including life and background, introduction, critical commentaries, character analyses, special topics, review questions, selected bibliography
2000

The Vietnam reader

the definitive collection of American fiction and nonfiction on the war
1998
A selection of works about the American war in Vietnam, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, photographs, song lyrics, and discussions of films; with a glossary, map, filmography, bibliography, reader's guide, discussion questions, and a chronology of the war.

Herman Melville

1986
A collection of critical essays on Melville and his works. Also includes a chronology of events in the author's life.

Playing in the dark

whiteness and the literary imagination
1992
Historically racialized society's effect on American writing.

My soul's high song

the collected writings of Countee Cullen, voice of the Harlem Renaissance
1991
Includes Cullen's poetry and prose, essays from The Crisis magazine, the complete text of his novel "One Way to Heaven", and an interview.

The Erie Canal reader, 1790-1950

2003
Presents a collection of writings about the landscape and life along the Erie Canal, featuring poems, essays, travelogues, and fiction composed by American and British authors from 1790 to 1950.

Double stitch

Black women write about mothers & daughters
1991
Forty-seven black women provide their personal stories of black mother-daughter relationships in poetry, essay, and personal narrative.

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