In nineteen interrelated chapters, Weaver presents a range of experiences shared by native peoples in the Americas, from the distant past to the uncertain future. He examines Indian creative output, from oral tradition to the postmodern wordplay of Gerald Vizenor, and brings to light previously overlooked texts. Weaver also tackles up-to-the-minute issues, including environmental crises, Native American spirituality, repatriation of Indian remains and cultural artifacts, and international human rights.

Drawing on a wide array of literary, historical, and theoretical sources, Rachel Lee addresses current debates on the relationship among Asian American ethnic identity, national belonging, globalization, and gender. Lee argues that scholars have traditionally placed undue emphasis on ethnic-based political commitments--whether these are construed as national or global--in their readings of Asian American texts. This has constrained the intelligibility of stories that are focused less on ethnicity than on kinship, family dynamics, eroticism, and gender roles. In response, Lee makes a case for a reconceptualized Asian American criticism that centrally features gender and sexuality.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain is commonly accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It was also one of the first major American novels ever written using Local Color Realism or the vernacular, or common speech, being told in the first person by the eponymous Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer (hero of three other Mark Twain books). The book was first published in 1884.

The concise guide to the American Literature. Contents:

• EARLY AMERICAN AND COLONIAL PERIOD TO 1776
• DEMOCRATIC ORIGINS AND REVOLUTIONARY WRITERS, 1776-1820
• THE ROMANTIC PERIOD, 1820-1860: ESSAYISTS AND POETS
• THE ROMANTIC PERIOD, 1820-1860: FICTION
• THE RISE OF REALISM: 1860-1914
• MODERNISM AND EXPERIMENTATION: 1914-1945
• AMERICAN POETRY, 1945–1990: THE ANTI-TRADITION
• AMERICAN PROSE, 1945–1990: REALISM AND EXPERIMENTATION
• CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY
• CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE

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True Lies
“Did you call him yet?” my boss asked. We were under pressure to finish a big editorial project, and the phone call was key to crucial details. I replied refl exively, without thinking: “I haven’t reached him yet.” My boss’s eyes f ashed. “Wait a minute,” he said impatiently. “You tried him and you didn’t get through, or you haven’t called yet at all?” 
Whoops. I admitted that, in fact, I hadn’t called.
Since then, I have often wondered what made me respond so evasively.