Further
Reading
General
Clarke, Graham. New American
writing: essays on American literature since 1970 (London : Vision Press;
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990)
American
History
Foner, Eric, ed. The New American
History (Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1997).
Foner, Eric. The Story of American
Freedom (London: Picador, 1999).
Tindall, George Brown and David
Emory Shi. America: A Narrative History (New York: Norton, 1999).
Zinn, Howard. A People's
History of the United States (New York: Harper & Row, 1980).
The
South
Cook, Sylvia Jenkins. From Tobacco
Road to Route 66: The Southern Poor White in Fiction (Chapel Hill: U of
North Carolina P, 1976).
Daniel, Pete. Standing at the
Crossroads: Southern Life since 1900 (New York: Hill and Wang, 1986).
Gossett, Louise Y. Violence
in Recent Southern Fiction (Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 1965).
Prenshaw, Peggy Whitman, ed.
Women Writers of the Contemporary South (Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1984).
Ethnicity
/ Immigration
Daniels, Roger. Coming to America:
A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life (New York:
HarperPerennial, 1991).
D'Innocenzo, Michael and Josef
P. Sirefman, eds. Immigration and Ethnicity: American Society --
"Melting Pot" or "Salad Bowl" (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1992).
Lim, Shirley and Amy Ling, eds.
Reading the literatures of Asian America (Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1992).
Sollors, Werner, ed. The Invention
of Ethnicity (New York: Oxford UP, 1989).
American
Dream
Fossum, Robert H. and John K.
Roth. The American Dream (Durham: British Association for American Studies,
1981).
Long, Elizabeth. The American
Dream and the Popular Novel (Boston: Routledge, 1985).
History
and Intertextuality
O'Donnell, Patrick and Robert
Con Davies, eds. Intertextuality and Contemporary American Fiction (Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins UP, 1989).
Zamora, Lois Parkinson. The
Usable Past: The Imagination of History in Recent Fiction of the Americas
(Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997).
Native American
Ruppert, James. Mediation in
Contemporary Native American Fiction (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
1995).
Crime
Knight, Stephen, Form and Ideology
in Crime Fiction (London: Macmillan Press, 1980).
Willett, Ralph. The Naked City:
Urban Crime Fiction in the USA (Manchester: Manchester UP, 1996).
Consumerism
Featherstone, Mike. Consumer
Culture and Postmodernism (London: Sage Publications, 1991).
Featherstone, Mike. Undoing
Culture: Globalization, Postmoderism and Identity(London : Sage Publications,
1995).
Young, Elizabeth and Graham
Caveney. Shopping in space: Essays on American "Blank Generation" Fiction
(London: Serpent's Tail, 1992).
Don DeLillo
Lentricchia, Frank, ed. Introducing
Don DeLillo (Durham: Duke UP, 1991).
Cormac McCarthy
/ The West
Campbell, Neil. The Cultures
of the American New West (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2000).
Jarrett, Robert L. Cormac McCarthy
(New York: Twayne, 1997).
Slotkin, Richard. Regeneration
Through Violence: the mythology of the American frontier, 1600-1860 (Norman:
U of Oklahoma P, 2000).
Wallach, Rick, ed., Myth
–Legend – Dust: Critical Responses to Cormac McCarthy (Manchester: Manchester
UP, November 2000).
Toni Morrison
/ African American
Douglas, Ann. Terrible honesty:
mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s (London: Picador, 1996).
Gates, Henry Louis and and K.A.
Appiah, eds. Toni Morrison: critical perspectives past and present (New
York: Amistad, Penguin USA, 1993).
Levine, Lawrence W. Black culture
and black consciousness: Afro-American folk thought from slavery to freedom
(New York: Oxford UP, 1977).
Mbalia, Doreatha D. Toni Morrison's
developing class consciousness (Selinsgrove: Susquehanna UP, 1991).
Matus, Jill L., Toni Morrison
(Manchester: Manchester UP, 1998).
Kubitschek, Missy Dehn. Claiming
the Heritage: African-American women Novelists and History (Jackson: UP
of Mississippi, 1991).
Peterson, Nancy J., ed.
Toni Morrison : critical and theoretical approaches (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
UP, 1997).
Electronic
journals can yield some interesting materials. Journals available include:
American
Literature
American
Quarterly
Journal
of American Studies
Journal
of Black Studies
Journal
of Southern History
MELUS
Obsidian
II - Black Literature in Review
Sewanee
Review
Southern
Cultures
Southern
Literary Journal
Southern
Review - A Literary and Critical Quarterly Magazine
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