Ethnic American literature : an encyclopedia for students / Emmanuel S. Nelson, editor.
This book introduces the American mosaic of multicultural literature by chronicling the achievements of American writers of non-European descent and highlighting the ethnic diversity of works from the colonial era to the present. It contains entries on African American, Asian American, Latino/a, and...
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Table of Contents:
- African American autobiography
- African American drama
- African American gay literature
- African American lesbian literature
- African American novel
- African American poetry
- African American science fiction
- African American slave narrative
- African American stereotypes
- African American young adult literature
- Alexie, Sherman Joseph, Jr.
- Alvarez, Julia
- American born Chinese
- Anaya, Rudolfo
- Angelou, Maya
- Arab American autobiography
- Arab American novel
- Arab American stereotypes
- Assimilation
- Autobiography of Malcolm X, The
- Baldwin, James
- Bambara, Toni Cade
- Beloved
- Bilingualism
- Black boy
- Blanco, Richard
- Blues, The
- Bluest eye, The
- Border narratives
- Brooks, Gwendolyn
- Canon
- Caribbean (anglophone) American autobiography
- Caribbean (anglophone) American novel
- Caribbean (anglophone) American poetry
- Chinese American autobiography
- Chinese American drama
- Chinese American novel
- Chinese American poetry
- Chinese American stereotypes
- Cisneros, Sandra
- Civil rights movement
- Cliff, Michelle
- Color purple, The
- Cooper, J. (Joan) California
- Cuban American autobiography
- Cuban American novel
- Cuban American poetry
- Culture clash
- Danticat, Edwidge
- Diaz, Junot
- Dominican American novel
- Dominican American poetry
- Douglass, Frederick
- Dove, Rita
- Down these mean streets
- Ellison, Ralph Waldo
- Erdrich, Louise
- Ethnicity
- Eurocentrism
- Filipino American novel
- Gaines, Ernest J.
- Galarza, Ernesto
- García, Cristina
- Haley, Alex
- Hansberry, Lorraine
- Harlem renaissance
- Hawai'i literature
- Hawaiian literature
- Hosseini, Khaled
- House on Mango Street, The
- Hughes, Langston
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- I know why the caged bird sings
- Identity
- Internment
- Invisible man
- Iranian American literature
- Islas, Arturo, Jr.
- Jacobs, Harriet
- Japanese American autobiography
- Japanese American novel
- Jasmine
- Jazz
- Jones, Edward P.
- Joy luck club, The
- Kincaid, Jamaica
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Kingston, Maxine Hong
- Korean American literature
- Lahiri, Jhumpa
- Larsen, Nella
- Laviera, Tato
- Lee, Chang-rae
- Lesson before dying, A
- Lorde, Audre
- Marshall, Paule
- McBride, James
- Mexican American autobiography
- Mexican American children's literature
- Mexican American drama
- Mexican American gay literature
- Mexican American lesbian literature
- Mexican American poetry
- Mexican American stereotypes
- Momaday, Navarre Scott
- Moody, Anne
- Morrison Toni
- Mukherjee, Bharati
- Multiculturalism
- Native American autobiography
- Native American drama
- Native American novel
- Native American oral texts
- Native American poetry
- Native American stereotypes
- Naylor, Gloria
- Nuyorican
- Obama, Barack Hussein
- Okada, John
- Ortiz, Simon J.
- Ortiz Cofer, Judith
- Passing
- Pedagogy and U.S. ethnic literatures
- Piñero, Miguel
- Puerto Rican American autobiography
- Puerto Rican American drama
- Puerto Rican American gay literature
- Puerto Rican American lesbian literature
- Puerto Rican American novel
- Puerto Rican American poetry
- Puerto Rican stereotypes
- Race
- Racism
- Raisin in the sun, A
- Rechy, John
- Rivera, Tomás
- Rodriguez, Richard
- Signifying
- Silent dancing
- Silko, Leslie Marmon
- Song of Solomon
- South Asian American literature
- Spirituals
- Street, The
- Tan, Amy
- Their eyes were watching God
- Thomas, Pieri
- Trickster, African American
- Trickster, Native American
- Valdez, Luis
- Vietnamese American literature
- Villarreal, José Antonio
- Vizenor, Gerald
- Walker, Alice
- Way to Rainy Mountain, The
- Whiteness
- Wilson, August
- Wilson, Harriet E.
- Woman warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts, The
- Wright, Richard.