| Contents |
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. |
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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.]. |
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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. |
| Local note | Little-316493--305131023140N |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-406). |
| LCCN | 90006530 |
| ISBN | 0873521889 (pbk.) : |
| ISBN | 0873521870 : |
