INDEXTales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (Edgar Allan Poe) 42Tales of the Jazz Age (F. Scott Fitzgerald) 70Tamar (Robinson Jeffers) 68Tan, Amy 116, 150Tar Baby (Toni Morrison) 115Tarbell, Ida M. 55Tate, Allen 76, 80, 111Taylor, Edward 7-8, 9“Teeth Mother Naked at Last, The” (Robert Bly) 89Tell My Horse (Zora Neale Hurston) 76Tenants, The (Bernard Malamud) 104Tender Buttons (Gertrude Stein) 62Tender Is the Night (F. Scott Fitzgerald) 70Ten North Frederick (John O’Hara) 102Tenth M<strong>us</strong>e Lately Sprung Up in America, The(Anne Bradstreet) 7Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston) 76, 145Theroux, Paul 112Thin Man, The (Hammett, Dashiell) 99Third Life of Grange Copeland, The (Alice Walker) 116Third World Women (Janice Mirikitani, ed.) 94“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” (Wallace Stevens) 66This Side of Paradise (F. Scott Fitzgerald) 61, 70Thomas, James 139Thomas and Beulah (Rita Dove) 93, 124Thoreau, Henry David 11, 14, 26, 27, 29-30, 32, 35, 50, 130, 151Thorpe, Thomas Bangs 49Those the River Keeps (David Rabe) 119Tho<strong>us</strong>and Acres, A (Jane Smiley) 146Three Soldiers (John Dos Passos) 60Three Tall Women (Edward Albee) 117Through and Through (Joseph Geha) 155Through the Arc of the Rain Forest (Karen Tei Yamashita) 150“Throwing Salt on a Path” (Arthur Sze) 129“Tide Rises, the Tide Falls, The”(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) 33Tidewater Morning, A (William Styron) 113Tidewater Tales, The (John Barth) 109Timebends: A Life (Arthur Miller) 99Time To Greez! (Janice Mirikitani, ed.) 94Tiny Alice (Edward Albee) 117To Bedlam and Part Way Back (Anne Sexton) 83“To My Dear and Loving H<strong>us</strong>band” (Anne Bradstreet) 7Too Far To Go (John Updike) 106Toomer, Jean 74-75Topdog/Underdog (Suzan-Lori Parks) 140Tortilla Flat (John Steinbeck) 74“To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works”(Phillis Wheatley) 25Total Syntax (Barrett Watten) 95“To the Engraver of My Skin” (Mark Doty) 128-129Toughest Indian in the World, The (Sherman Alexie) 152Tower Beyond Tragedy, The (Robinson Jeffers) 68Town, The (William Faulkner) 72Transatlantic Sketches (Henry James) 52Triumph of Achilles, The (Louise Glück) 124Tropic of Orange (Karen Tei Yamashita) 150Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan) 108True and Historical Narrative of the Colony of Georgia, A 13True West (Sam Shepard) 118Trumbull, John 20Truth, Sojourner 43-44“T<strong>us</strong>kegee Airmen, The” (Trey Ellis) 143Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens) 23, 27, 33, 48-49, 51, 52, 76Twenty-Seventh City, The (Jonathan Franzen) 146Two Cities (John Edgar Wideman) 143Two Dreams (Shirley Geok-lin Lim) 154Two Trains Running (Aug<strong>us</strong>t Wilson) 120Tyler, Anne 142Tyler, Royall 20Typee (Herman Melville) 36, 38, 40Typical American (Gish Jen) 150Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe) 42, 44-45, 77Uncle Tom’s Children (Richard Wright) 75Underworld (Don DeLillo) 141Unfinished Woman, An (Lillian Hellman) 99United States (Laurie Anderson) 95Unknown Errors of Our Lives, The(Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni) 154Updike, John 101, 106, 111, 139, 141Up From Slavery (Booker T. Washington) 58U.S.A. (John Dos Passos) 72, 73, 112V (Thomas Pynchon) 108Van Duyn, Mona 90Van Vechten, Carl 74Van Wagener, Isabella (see Truth, Sojourner)Vassa, G<strong>us</strong>tav<strong>us</strong> (see Equiano, Olaudah)“Vegetable Air, The” (Cathy Song) 94Victim, The (Saul Bellow) 103Villagrá, Gaspar Pérez de 91Vineland (Thomas Pynchon) 109Violent Bear It Away, The (Flannery O’Connor) 103Viramontes, Helena Maria 151Virginia (Ellen Glasgow) 58“Virtue of Tobacco, The” (Philip Freneau) 21Visitation of Spirits, A (Randall Kenan) 146Vizenor, Gerald 147, 149Voight, Ellen Bryant 133Vollmann, William 138, 151Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. 97“Voyages” (Hart Crane) 68175
INDEXWaiting (Ha Jin) 155Waiting for Lefty (Clifford Odets) 78Wake of Jamey Foster, The (Beth Henley) 140Walden, or, Life in the Woods (Henry David Thoreau) 29, 40Walker, Alice 97, 112, 115-116, 145, 150Walker, Margaret 145Walking on Water (Randall Kenan) 146Wallace, David Foster 137, 141, 146Want Bone, The (Robert Pinsky) 133“Want Bone, The” (Robert Pinsky) 133Wapshot Scandal, The (John Cheever) 105“Warning, The” (Robert Creeley) 86Warren, Mercy Otis 25Warren, Robert Penn 76, 80, 81, 97, 98, 99, 100, 112Washington, Booker T. 58-59Wasserstein, Wendy 140Waste Land, The (T.S. Eliot) 61, 63, 64Watch on the Rhine (Lillian Hellman) 99Waterworks, The (E.L. Doctorow) 113Watkins, Gloria (see Hooks, Bell)Watten, Barrett 95Way Some People Live, The (John Cheever) 105Way to Rainy Mountain, The (N. Scott Momaday) 116“Way to Wealth, The” (Benjamin Franklin) 16Webster, Noah 15, 21Welch, James 116, 130, 148Welch, Lew 86Welty, Eudora 97, 100, 103West, Nathanael 103, 150Whalen, Phil 86Wharton, Edith 52-53“What Thou Lovest Well, Remains American”(Richard Hugo) 84What We Talk About When We Talk About Love(Raymond Carver) 138Wheatley, Phillis 25When Dinah Shore Ruled the Earth (Wendy Wasserstein) 140“When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”(Walt Whitman) 31Where I’m Calling From (Raymond Carver) 138Where I Was From (Joan Didion) 150Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs(Wallace Stegner) 147Where the Sea Used To Be (Rick Bass) 148White Collar (C. Wright Mills) 101“White Heron, The” (Sarah Orne Jewett) 50Whiteman, Roberta Hill 92White Noise (Don DeLillo) 137, 141White Pine (Mary Oliver) 130Whitman, Walt 14, 29, 30-32, 33, 35, 36, 49, 67, 122, 128Whittier, John Greenleaf 33-34, 50Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Edward Albee) 117“Why I Live at the P.O.” (Eudora Welty) 100Whyte, William 101Wideman, John Edgar 116, 143Wide Net, The (Eudora Welty) 100Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys) 152Wieland (Charles Brockden Brown) 22Wife of His Youth, The (Charles Waddell Chesnutt) 59Wigglesworth, Michael 8Wilbur, Richard 80, 81Wilder, Thornton 78“Wild Honey Suckle, The” (Philip Freneau) 21Wild Iris, The (Louise Glück) 125Wildlife (Richard Ford) 147Wild Seed (Octavia Butler) 146Williams, John 9Williams, Jonathan 86Williams, Roger 10Williams, Sherley Anne 146Williams, Tennessee 97, 99Williams, William Carlos 62, 63, 66-67, 68, 82, 90Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (Raymond Carver) 138Wilson, Aug<strong>us</strong>t 116, 119-120Wilson, Harriet 45Wilson, Sloan 101Winesburg, Ohio (Sherwood Anderson) 55Wings of the Dove, The (Henry James) 52Winter in the Blood (James Welch) 116Winthrop, John 9, 10Wise Blood (Flannery O’Connor) 103Wolf: A False Memoir (Jim Harrison) 147Wolfe, Thomas 111Wolfe, Tom 108, 112, 113Woman, Native, Other (Trinh Minh-Ha) 155Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories(Sandra Cisneros) 116, 148Woman in the Nineteenth Century (Margaret Fuller) 34Woman’s Bible, The (Elizabeth Cady Stanton) 43Woman Warrior, The (Maxine Hong Kingston) 116Women in Praise of the Sacred (Jane Hirshfield, ed.) 129Women in Their Beds (Gina Berriault) 150Women of Brewster Place, The (Gloria Naylor) 143“Women of Dan Dance With Swords in Their Hands To Markthe Time When They Were Warriors, The” (Audre Lorde) 94Whitlow, Robert 136Wick, Lori 136Woolman, John 11Words for the Wind (Theodore Roethke) 84World According to Garp, The (John Irving) 112World of Apples, The (John Cheever) 105World’s End (T. Coraghessan Boyle) 151World’s Fair (E.L. Doctorow) 113“World Without Objects Is a Sensible Emptiness, A”(Richard Wilbur) 80Wouk, Herman 97Wright, C.D. 125Wright, Charles 89, 125-12617606-0823
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