Critical Insights: Social Justice and American Literature

Author Robert C. Hauhart - Jeff Birkenstein

Publisher Salem Press

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Robert C. Hauhart - Jeff Birkenstein

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Salem Press

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Copyright

2018

ISBN13

9781682175668

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eBook

Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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Overview

This volume will examine the work of Richard Wright, Amy Lowell, Philip Roth, Kate Chopin and James Baldwin among others. Themes that will be dealt with are: gender and feminism; gay writers; Native American, Asian American, and Hispanic/Border writers; Appalachian and socioeconomic justice.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Acknowledgments.
About This Volume.
On Social Justice in American Literature.
Critical Contexts.
1: Identities without Borders: June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, and the Legacy of Post-Civil Rights Black Feminism.
2: Stories of Place: Appalachian Literature as Locus of Environmental and Social Justice.
3: Embattled Terrains: The Body as the Site of Social (In)justice in American Literature.
4: Chester Himes's Dilemma.
Critical Readings.
5: “This Is the Way That I Am”: Early Indigenous American Women's Literature.
6: Port of Entry: Hidden Correspondence by Frederick Douglass to Anna Murray (Douglass).
7: Social Justice and Nineteenth-Century Realism: William Dean Howells's A Hazard of New Fortunes.
8: From Fugitive Slave to Harlem Housewife: The “Tragic Mulatto” in American Literature.
9: Privilege on the Prairie: Western Expansion in the Writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Louise Erdrich.
10: “It Gets Better:” A Short History of Feminism, Body Policing, and Women's Suicide.
11: Liberation from Family, Class, Race, Culture, and Tribe in Early Philip Roth.
12: The Social Justice-Legal Justice Cleavage in Modern American Literature.
13: Developing Morality by Exploring Social Justice in the Works of Walter Dean Myers.
14: Grand Narratives of Social Justice in Chang-Rae Lee's Native Speaker and Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist.
15: Margaret Atwood and Women's Dystopic Fiction.
Resources.
Additional Works by Authors in This Volume.
Bibliography.
About the Editors.
Contributors.
Index.
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