american literature

Evaluates hundreds of books for children and teens that explore the Native American traditions and culture that were published from the early 1900s through 2004.

Collects nineteenth-century American author Washington Irving's significant works, including "Rip Van Winkle," "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," "A Tour on the Prairies," and "Salmagundi.".

A collection of short fiction and nonfiction writings from mainstream and alternative American writers compiled by the students at 826 National, a non-profit group founded by author Dave Eggers and based in San Francisco.

Profiles the lives and works of twelve female writers who challenged society's beliefs and norms about vital issues including Mae West, Margaret Mitchell, Ayn Rand, and others.

Explores various works, authors, movements, and themes from American literature from 1945-1970, with contextual information, research suggestions, sources for further study, and more, covering topics such as the beat movement, science fiction, and popular music as literature.

Presents studying and writing strategies and angles for studying American literature from 1914-1945, covering topics such as Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, the Harlem Renaissance, and John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath.".

"Writes about nineteenth-century literary efforts to romance slavery, contrasting them with the scientific racism of Samuel Cartwright and the banal diaries of the plantation overseer and slaveholder Thomas Thistlewood. She looks at configurations of blackness, notions of racial purity, and the ways in which literature employs skin color to reveal character or drive narrative"--Amazon.

A collection of over twenty classic horror stories and poems by a variety of authors including Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton, Charles Dickens, Ambrose Bierce, and others.

Contains articles that examines the lives and works of thirty-four Chicano and Chicana, and Dominican writers, and includes five essays that explore themes in Latino and Latina literature, such as feminism, and history.

Contains twenty-five alphabetically arranged articles that provide information about significant African-American authors, each with a biographical overview, a survey of principal writings, an assessment of the subject's work as a whole, and a bibliography; and features two additional topical essays. Includes an index.