Title:
American literature / Rasmussen College, Department of English ; general editor, John Bryant ; associate editor, David Shields.
Author:
Bryant, John.
Shields, David, 1956-
Rasmussen College. Dept. of English.
Publication Information:
New York : Pearson Custom Publishing, c2009.
Call Number:
PS535.5 .A54 2009
Added Corporate Author:
ISBN:
9780536411457
Physical Description:
vi, 420 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents:
African American literature, 1945 to the present. Frederick Douglass: biographical headnote -- What to the slave is the Fourth of July? / Frederick Douglass -- W.E.B. DuBois: biographical headnote -- Criteria of negro art / W.E.B. DuBois -- Franz Boas: biographical headnote -- Race problems in America / Franz Boas -- African American literature, Harlem renaissance. Zora Neale Hurston: biographical headnote -- The Gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston -- Jean Toomer: biographical headnote -- Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer -- Langston Hughes: biographical headnote -- Harlem (2) / Langston Hughes -- Same in blues / Langston Hughes -- Claude McKay: biographical headnote -- America / Claude McKay -- Gwendolyn Bennett: biographical headnote -- Song / Gwendolyn Bennett -- African American literature, 1945 to the present. Alice Malsenior Walker: biographical headnote -- In search of our mother's gardens / Alice Walker -- Toni Morrison: biographical headnote -- Recitatif / Toni Morrison -- Sonia Sanchez: biographical headnote -- Just don't never give up on love / Sonia Sanchez -- Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones): biographical headnote -- Black art / Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) -- Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks: biographical headnote -- Kitchenette building / Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks -- A Bronzeville mother loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhhile, a Mississippi mother burns bacon / Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks -- June Jordan: biographical headnote -- Poem about my rights / June Jordan -- Nikki Giovanni: biographical headnote -- Beautiful Black men / Nikki Giovanni -- Lucille Clifton: biographical headnote -- Reply / Lucille Clifton -- I am accused of tending to the past / Lucille Clifton -- Latino/a literature-Poetry, short fiction, essay. Introduction to the Corridos -- Corrido de Cesar Chavez -- Corrido de Dolores Huerta, #39 -- Gregorio Cortez -- Sandra Cisneros: biographical headnote -- From Woman Hollering Creek: Mexicans / Sandra Cisneros -- Gloria Anzaldua: biographical headnote -- La conciencia de la mestiza/Towards a new consciousness / Gloria Anzaldua -- Judith Ortiz Cofer: biographical headnote -- Silent dancing / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Native American literature, Turn of the century. Charles Alexander Eastman: biographical headnote -- Winona, the child woman from old Indian days / Charles Alexander Eastman -- Helen Hunt Jackson: biographical headnote -- A Century of dishonor: conclusion / Helen Hunt Jackson -- Native American literature, 1945 to the present. Leslie Marmon Silko: biographical headnote -- Lullaby / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Sherman J. Alexie, Jr.: biographical headnote -- What you pawn, I will redeem / Sherman J. Alexie, Jr. -- Louise Erdich: biographical headnote -- Saint Marie (1934) from Love Medicine / Louise Erdich -- N. Scott Momaday: biographical headnote -- From The way to Rainy Mountain / N. Scott Momaday -- Joy Harjo: biographical headnote -- Call it fear / Joy Harjo -- From She had some horses / Joy Harjo -- We encounter Nat King Cole as we invent the future / Joy Harjo -- Paula Gunn Allen: biographical headnote -- Anagram / Paula Gunn Allen -- Hoop dancer / Paula Gunn Allen -- Simon J. Ortiz: biographical headnote -- From From Sand Creek / Simon J. Ortiz -- Chrystos: biographical headnote -- I am not your princess / Chrystos -- Asian American literature, Turn of the century. Edith Maud Eaton: biographical headnote -- In the land of the free / Edith Maud Eaton -- Winnifred Eaton (Onoto Watanna): biographical headnote -- A half caste -- Winnifred Eaton (Onoto Watanna) -- Asian American literature, Turn of the century. Hisaye Yamamoto: biographical headnote -- Seventeen syllables / Hisaye Yamamoto -- Maxine Hong Kingston: biographical headnote -- No Name woman / Maxine Hong Kingston -- Amy (Ruth) Tan: biographical headnote -- Two kinds: from The Joy Luck Club / Amy Tan -- Li-Young Lee: biographical headnote -- Ash, snow, or moonlight / Li-Young Lee -- I ask my mother to sing / Li-Young Lee -- This room and everything in it / Li-Young Lee -- Cathy Song: biographical headnote -- Heaven / Cathy Song -- The White porch / Cathy Song -- Beauty and sadness / Cathy Song.
