American Literary Voices Part 2

Introduction Page
1. The New Landscape: Americans Feel the Pain
   1. Sherwood Anderson: Life in a Small Town
   2. Thornton Wilder Our Town
   3. Problems on Main Street: Sinclair Lewis
   4. William Carlos Williams: Paterson Poet
   5. Robert Frost: Feelings from New England
   6. Quick Cuts: John Dos Passos's U.S.A.
2. America -- Land of Opportunity?
   1. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
   2. Anzia Yezierska and Bread Givers
   3. Theodore Dreiser and An American Tragedy
   4. Sister Carrie
   5. Preserving Tradition: Isaac Bashevis Singer
3. Truth or Dare: Taming the American West
   1. Jack London's Adventure in the Klondike
   2. Steinbeck and the Social Conscience
   3. Grapes of Wrath
   4. Of Mice and Men
   5. Native American Perspectives
   6. Mexican-American Voices
4. Poetry Beyond the Rhyme
   1. Edwin Arlington Robinson: "Richard Cory"
   2. Ezra Pound's Weighty Poetry
   3. E.E. Cummings
   4. T.S. Eliot and the Modern Condition
   5. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
   6. The Waste Land
   7. Confessions in Poetry: Lowell, Plath, and Sexton
5. Literature in Exile: The Lost Generation
   1. Gertrude Stein Leads the Way
   2. F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda
   3. The Great Gatsby
   4. Ernest Hemingway
   5. The Old Man and the Sea
6. Bearing Witness: The Harlem Renaissance
   1. Why Harlem?
   2. Claude McKay "If We Must Die"
   3. "A Dream Deferred": Langston Hughes
   4. Countee Cullen: "Any Human To Another"
   5. The Poetry of Jazz
7. The Stage Is Set -- American Drama Flourishes
   1. Eugene O'Neill
   2. Tennessee Williams
   3. A Streetcar Named Desire
   4. The Glass Menagerie
   5. Arthur Miller and the 1950s
   6. The Crucible
   7. Death of a Salesman
   8. Edward Albee
8. Let There Be Light: The South Awakens
   1. Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God
   2. William Faulkner
   3. Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"
   4. Faulkner's "The Bear"
   5. Flannery O'Connor and the Southern "Gothic"
   6. Eudora Welty
9. Innocent No More: Alienation in America
   1. A Separate Peace
   2. Racism and Judgment in To Kill a Mockingbird
   3. The Loner: J.D. Salinger
   4. Adolescent Agony: The Catcher in the Rye
   5. Philip Roth: Odd Man In
   6. "On the Road" with Kerouac and the Beats
   7. Allen Ginsberg
   8. Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five
10. The Diverse World of the Modern Short Story
    1. O. Henry's Surprise Endings
    2. Katherine Anne Porter
    3. Dorothy Parker and the Algonquin Round Table
    4. The New Yorker and its Writers
    5. Tillie Olsen: Ironing Out Riddles
    6. Shirley Jackson: "The Lottery"
    7. Beyond the Fringe: Raymond Carver
11. Total Request Live: "Pop" Lit -- Instant Hit
    1. Ursula LeGuin: Sci-Fi Master
    2. Isaac Asimov I Robot
    3. Ray Bradbury Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451
    4. Tarzan and Popular Reading
    5. Detective Fiction
    6. Gone with the Wind
12. Keeping It Real: African American Voices
    1. Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
    2. Richard Wright: Native Son
    3. James Baldwin: Go Tell It on the Mountain
    4. Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun
    5. Toni Morrison
    6. Alice Walker The Color Purple
    7. Gwendolyn Brooks, Mari Evans, and Sonia Sanchez
    8. Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton, Nikki Giovanni, and June Jordan
13. American Voices at the Millennium
    1. Chaim Potok The Chosen
    2. Sandra Cisneros "The House on Mango Street"
    3. Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club
    4. Jamaica Kincaid -- "Life is difficult and that's that"
    5. Poets Laureate: Rita Dove and Robert Pinsky
    6. Maya Angelou "The Pulse of Morning"