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Redefining American literary history
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- Creator
- edited by A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff and Jerry W. Ward, Jr
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1990
- Physical Details
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- iv, 406 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780873521871, 0873521870, 9780873521888, 0873521889
- OCLC
- ocm21974151
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The literatures of America : a comparative discipline / Paul Lauter -- Defining the canon / Harold H. Kolb, Jr. -- Thoreau's last words : and America's first literatures / Jarold Ramsey -- In the American canon / Robert Hemenway -- The oral tradition and the study of American literature / Theresa Meléndez -- His life in his trail : the Native American trickster and the literature of possibility / Andrew Wiget -- The African American animal trickster as hero / John W. Roberts -- Orality and Hispanic literature of the United States / Nicolás Kanellos -- Oral tradition and poetic influence : two poets from greater Mexico / José E. Limón -- Oral tradition in Kingston's China men / Linda Ching Sledge
- Archaeology, ideology, and African American discourse / Houston A. Baker, Jr. -- Canonical and noncanonical texts : a Chicano case study / Juan Bruce-Novoa -- Puerto Rican literature in the United States : stages and perspectives / Juan Flores -- Chinese American women writers : the tradition behind Maxine Hong Kingston / Amy Ling -- Twelve Asian American writers : in search of self-definition / Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- Three nineteenth-century American Indian autobiographers / A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff -- African American progress-report autobiographies/ Frances Smith Foster -- Minority and multicultural literature, including Hispanic literature ; African American literature / A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff ... [et al.]
- American Indian literature / A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff -- Asian American literature / Amy Ling -- Chicano literature / Teresa McKenna -- Puerto Rican literature in the United States / Edna Acosta-Belén