On social justice in American literature / Identities without borders : June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, and the legacy of post-civil rights black feminism / Stories of place : Appalachian literature as locus of environmental and social justice / Embattled terrains : the body as the site of social (in)justice in American literature / Chester Hime's dilemma / "This is the way that I am" : early indigenous American women's literature / Port of entry : hidden correspondence by Frederick Douglass to Anna Murray (Douglass) / Social justice and nineteenth-century realism : William Dean Howells's "A Hazard of new fortunes," / From fugitive slave to Harlem housewife : the "tragic mulatto" in American literature / Privilege on the prairie : western expansion in the writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Louise Erdrich / "It gets better" : a short history of feminism, body policing, and women's suicide / Liberation from family, class, race, culture, and tribe in early Philip Roth / The social justice-legal justice cleavage in modern American literature / Developing morality by exploring social justice in the works of Walter Dean Myers / Grand narratives of social justice in Chang-Rae Lee's "Native speaker" and Colson Whitehead's "The intuitionist" / Margaret Atwood and women's dystopic fiction