INDEXEquiano, Olaudah 13, 45Erdrich, Louise 91, 92-93, 116, 127, 147Estate, The (Isaac Bashevis Singer) 104Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton) 53Eugenides, Jeffrey 141“Eutaw Springs” (Philip Freneau) 20Eva Luna (Isabel Allende) 153“Evangeline” (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) 33“Evening Thought, An” (Jupiter Hammon) 13Everett, Percival 145Everything That Rises M<strong>us</strong>t Converge(Flannery O’Connor) 103Executioner’s Song, The (Norman Mailer) 110Explanation of America, An (Robert Pinsky) 133Fable for Critics, A (James R<strong>us</strong>sell Lowell) 33Face of an Angel (Denise Chavez) 149“Facing It” (Y<strong>us</strong>ef Komunyakaa) 134Facts, The (Philip Roth) 111Falconer (John Cheever) 106“Fall of the Ho<strong>us</strong>e of Usher, The” (Edgar Allan Poe) 41Fame (Arthur Miller) 99Family Dancing (David Leavitt) 138Family Moskat, The (Isaac Bashevis Singer) 105“Family Reunion” (Louise Erdrich) 93Farewell to Arms, A (Ernest Hemingway) 71Farming of Bones, The (Edwidge Danticat) 152Faulkner, William 8, 49, 61, 62, 69, 71-72, 111, 112, 147Fault Lines (Meena Alexander) 154Federalist Papers, The 19Feminine Mystique, The (Betty Friedan) 90, 107Fences (Aug<strong>us</strong>t Wilson) 120Ferlinghetti, Lawrence 79, 86, 87Ferré, Rosario 153“Fever” (John Edgar Wideman) 143“Few Don’ts of an Imagiste, A” (Ezra Pound) 63Fielding, Helen 137Figured Wheel, The (Robert Pinsky) 133Firebird (Mark Doty) 128Fire Next Time, The (James Baldwin) 102Firmat, G<strong>us</strong>tavo Pérez 152“Fish R Us” (Mark Doty) 128Fitzgerald, F. Scott 54, 60, 61, 69, 70, 71, 72, 78, 143, 146Fixer, The (Bernard Malamud) 104Flanagan, Caitlin 137Flappers and Philosophers (F. Scott Fitzgerald) 70Floating Opera, The (John Barth) 109“Flowering Judas” (Katherine Anne Porter) 99Flowering Judas (Katherine Anne Porter) 100F.O.B. (David Henry Hwang) 116Fools Crow (James Welch) 116Ford, Richard 138, 145, 147For the Union Dead (Robert Lowell) 8242nd Parallel, The (John Dos Passos) 73For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway) 71Foster, Hannah 25Four Quartets (T.S. Eliot) 64Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O’Brien, The(Oscar Hijuelos) 153Franklin, Benjamin 14, 15, 16-18, 22, 33Franny and Zooey (J.D. Salinger) 107Franzen, Jonathan 146Frazier, Charles 145Freeing the Soul (Harryette Mullen) 145Freeman, Mary Wilkins 50Freneau, Philip 20-21, 25, 33, 130Frenzy (Percival Everett) 145Friedan, Betty 90, 107From Here to Eternity (James Jones) 97From the Terrace (John O’Hara) 102Frost, Robert 29, 65, 66, 130Fuller, Margaret 27, 33, 34, 43Gaddis, William 108Gaines, Ernest 111, 145Galatea 2.2 (Richard Powers) 137, 146Galbraith, John Kenneth 101Gallagher, Tess 125Gangster of Love, The (Jessica Hagedorn) 154Gardens in the Dunes (Leslie Marmon Silko) 149Gardner, John 112, 113-114, 138Garland, Hamlin 55Garrison, William Lloyd 21, 46Gass, William 108, 138Geha, Joseph 155“George the Third’s Soliloquy” (Philip Freneau) 20“Gerontion” (T.S. Eliot) 64Gesture Life, A (Chang-rae Lee) 154Ghosts (Paul A<strong>us</strong>ter) 142Ghost Writer, The (Philip Roth) 110Gilead (Marilynne Robinson) 151Gilbert, Sandra 90Gilchrist, Ellen 144Giles Goat-Boy (John Barth) 108, 109Gilman, Charlotte Perkins 51Ginsberg, Allen 79, 82, 86, 87, 88, 107, 118Gioia, Dana 96Giovanni, Nikki 91Girl With Curio<strong>us</strong> Hair (David Foster Wallace) 141Gizzi, Peter 134Gladwell, Malcolm 136Glasgow, Ellen 58Glass Menagerie, The (Tennessee Williams) 99Glengarry Glen Ross (David Mamet) 119Glück, Louise 90, 124-125, 127Glyph (Percival Everett) 145“Gold Bug, The” (Edgar Allan Poe) 41Golden, Arthur 136167
INDEXGolden Apples, The (Eudora Welty) 100Golden Bowl, The (Henry James) 52Golden Boy (Clifford Odets) 78Gonzales, Rodolfo 92Goodbye, Columb<strong>us</strong> (Philip Roth) 101, 110“Good Country People” (Flannery O’Connor) 103Good Man Is Hard To Find, A (Flannery O’Connor) 103Good Mother, The (Sue Miller) 140Good Scent From a Strange Mountain, A(Robert Olen Butler) 147Gordon, Caroline 111Gordon, Mary 141, 142Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin) 102Graham, Jorie 90, 123-124, 125, 135Grandissimes, The (George Washington Cable) 50Grapes of Wrath, The (John Steinbeck) 61, 72, 74Gravity’s Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon) 97, 109Great American Novel, The (Philip Roth) 110Great Gatsby, The (F. Scott Fitzgerald) 54, 57, 70, 78Great God Brown, The (Eugene O’Neill) 77Great Santini, The (Pat Conroy) 145Grendel (John Gardner) 113Griever (Gerald Vizenor) 147Grimké, Angelina 43Grimké, Sarah 43Grisham, John 136Gubar, S<strong>us</strong>an 90Guterson, David 151Guy Domville (Henry James) 52Habit of Being, The (Flannery O’Connor) 103Hagedorn, Jessica 154Halliday, Mark 131Hamlet, The (William Faulkner) 72Hammett, Dashiell 42, 99Hammon, Jupiter 13Hand to Mouth (Paul A<strong>us</strong>ter) 138Hannah, Barry 145Hansberry, Lorraine 101Hariot, Thomas 4Harjo, Joy 128Harlot’s Ghost (Norman Mailer) 110Harmonium (Wallace Stevens) 65Harper, Michael S. 91, 93, 94, 132, 133Harris, George Washington 49Harrison, Jim 147Harte, Bret 50, 51Haruf, Kent 146Hass, Robert 125Hawthorne, Nathaniel 8, 14, 22, 27, 36, 37-38, 43, 50, 154Hazard of New Fortunes, A (William Dean Howells) 51H.D. (Hilda Doo<strong>lit</strong>tle) 90Heartsong of Charging Elk, The (James Welch) 148Heart Songs (Annie Proulx) 141Heidi Chronicles, The (Wendy Wasserstein) 140Hejinian, Lyn 95, 122Heller, Joseph 97, 103Hellman, Lillian 97, 99Hemingway, Ernest 48, 60, 61, 69, 70-71, 72, 110, 138, 146, 147Hempel, Amy 138Henderson the Rain King (Saul Bellow) 103Henley, Beth 139“Her Kind” (Anne Sexton) 83Herzog (Saul Bellow) 103Hidden Persuaders, The (Vance Packard) 101Hiding Place (John Edgar Wideman) 143Hijuelos, Oscar 116, 153Hirsch, Ed 132Hirshfield, Jane 129-130Historia de la Nueva México (Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá) 91History and Present State of Virginia, The (Robert Beverley) 13History of My Heart (Robert Pinsky) 133History of New York (Washington Irving) 23History of the Condition of Women in Vario<strong>us</strong> Ages and Nations(Lydia Child) 43History of the Dividing Line (William Byrd) 13History of the Indians (Bartolemé de las Casas) 4History of the Standard Oil Company (Ida M. Tarbell) 55History of Woman Suffrage (Elizabeth Cady Stanton) 43Hobomok (Lydia Child) 43Hogan, Linda 148Holder of the World, The (Bharati Mukherjee) 154Hollander, John 80“Hollow Men, The” (T.S. Eliot) 64Holmes, Oliver Wendell 32, 33“Holy the Firm” (Annie Dillard) 151Home at the End of the World, A (Michael Cunningham) 146Home Repairs (Trey Ellis) 143Hooks, Bell (bell hooks) 145Hooper, Johnson 49Horseman, Pass By (Larry McMurtry) 148Hosseini, Khaled 136Hours, The (Michael Cummingham) 146Ho<strong>us</strong>ebreaker of Shady Hill, The (John Cheever) 105Ho<strong>us</strong>ekeeping (Marilynne Robinson) 151Ho<strong>us</strong>e Made of Dawn (N. Scott Momaday) 116, 149Ho<strong>us</strong>e of Mirth, The (Edith Wharton) 53Ho<strong>us</strong>e of Seven Gables, The (Nathaniel Hawthorne) 37Ho<strong>us</strong>e of the Spirits, The (Isabel Allende) 153Ho<strong>us</strong>e on Mango Street, The (Sandra Cisneros) 148Ho<strong>us</strong>e on Marshland, The (Louise Glück) 124Howard, Richard 80Howe, S<strong>us</strong>an 123Howells, William Dean 51, 55Howl (Allen Ginsberg) 79, 82, 88“How Serfdom Saved the Women’s Movement”(Caitlin Flanagan) 137How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (Julia Alvarez) 153168
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