American Literature 2 | Tangential Links, 1945ff

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Authors, Alphabetically

Sherman Alexie


The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

James Baldwin

"Charlie Parker" (Wikipedia)

Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) (1934-)


"Dutchman"


John Barth (1930-)


Sandra Cisneros

SandraCisneros.com (Official Site)
"Sandra Cisneros" (Voices from the Gaps)
"Sandra Cisneros" (Modern American Poetry)
Sandra Cisneros @GoogleBooks

Don DeLillo

Texts Online

Other Links

E. L. Doctorow (b. 1931)




Louise Erdrich

"Louise Erdrich" (Voices from the Gaps)

Jonathan Safran Foer (19

JonathanSafranFoer.com (Official Site)

Allen Ginsberg



David Henry Hwang (b. 1957) 


Gish Jen (b. 1955)


Jack Kerouac



Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I Have a Dream" (YouTube)

Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940)


Bobbie Ann Mason


Cormanc McCarthy (b. 1933)

The Sunset Limited


Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)

Pale Fire

Other Links

Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952)

Texts Online
Nineteen Varieties of Gazelle (1994, Google Books)
Fuel (1998. Google Books)


Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)


"Where Are You Going, Where have You Been?"


Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)




John Okada


Suzan-Lori Parks
(b. 1963)





Thomas Pynchon



Marilynne Robinson (1947-)


Leslie Marmon Silko

"Leslie Marmon Silko" (Voices from the Gaps)

Anna Deavere Smith


Lee Smith

LeeSmith.com
Hollins College: 1, 2

Luis Valdez (b. 1940)

I Don't Have to Show You No Stinking Badges!

Zoot Suit
Zoot Suit: The Documentary (Doc. by MCAET)
Zoot Suit Riots (PBS/American Experience)
Links from PBS on Zoot Suit Culture (PBS/American Exp.)


Other Links
Local Legends: Luis Valdez (1 Hr. Documentary by MCAET)
"Necessary Theatre: Luis Valdez" (2008 Interview at UCSD)
Calo/Chicano Slang (Wikipedia)

Kurt Vonnegut


Slaughterhouse Five
Mutt and Jeff (Wikipedia) (Plus Video)
World Federalist Movement (Wikipedia)
Battle of the Bulge (Wikipedia)
Ausable Chasm (Official Site)
John Birch Society (Wikipedia)
Valley of the Dolls (Wikipedia)

Alice Walker



Other Links

Eudora Welty



Tennessee Williams
(1911-1983)



Malcolm X


Hisaye Yamamoto (b. 1921)

Arizona Relocation Authority Camps: 1, 2, 3
Picture Brides: 1, 2