Arab-American and Muslim Writers (Multicultural Voices)
Arab-American and Muslim Writers discusses the authors from this rich heritage that have made lasting contributions to the American literary landscape. Authors such as Claire Messud, Mohja Kahf, Samuel Hazo, Malcolm X, Amiri Baraka, and Kahlil Gibran are among the many profiled in this new offering, which also covers the now-canonical works frequently assigned in classrooms today.
This volume is mostly about contemporary writers, many of whom have received little sustained attention from critics. For example, T. C. Boyle, Jim Harrison, Shelby Hearon, Bobbie Ann Mason, Cormac McCarthy, Gloria Naylor, Paul Theroux, and Oscar Hijuelos have been written about in the review pages of newspapers and magazines, but their work has yet to attract significant scholarship.
"Camera Works is about the impact of photography and film on modern art and literature. For many artists and writers, these new media offered hope of new means of representation, neither linguistic nor pictorial, but hovering in a kind of utopian space between. At the same time, the new media introduced a dramatic element of novelty into the age-old evidence of the senses.
AMERICAN WRITERS Supplement XVII Supplement XVII focuses intensely on contemporary writers, many of whom have received little sustained attention from critics. Fiction writers Max Apple, Charles Baxter, Joanna Scott, Scott Turow, William T. Vollmann, David Markson, Melvin Bukiet, and Anna Quindlen have written substantial novels. They have been written about in the review pages of newspapers and magazines, and their fiction has acquired a following of enthusiastic readers, but their work has yet to attract significant scholarship.
Supplement VII is mostly about contemporary writers, many of whom have received little sustained attention from critics. For example, Julia Alvarez, Tobias Wolff, Sandra Cisneros, Annie Proulx, Jamaica Kincaid, Carol Shields, Richard Bausch, Andre Dubus, and Barbara Kingsolver have been written about in the review pages of newspapers and magazines, and their fiction has acquired a substantial following, but their work has yet to attract significant scholarship.
