LEADER 03338cam 2200469 a 4500001 ocm21974151 005 20141212090844.0 008 900618s1990 nyu b 000 0 eng 010 90006530 020 0873521889 (pbk.) : |c$19.50 020 0873521870 : |c$45.00 035 (Sirsi) o21974151 035 (OCoLC)21974151 040 DLC |cDLC |dPMC |dERE |dUtOrBLW 043 n-us--- 049 EREE 050 00 PS153.M56 |bR4 1990 082 00 810.9/920693 |220 092 810.9 |bR24 245 00 Redefining American literary history / |cedited by A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff and Jerry W. Ward, Jr. 260 New York : |bModern Language Association of America, |c1990. 300 iv, 406 pages ; |c23 cm 336 text |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |2rdamedia 338 volume |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-406). 505 0 The literatures of America : a comparative discipline / Paul Lauter -- Defining the canon / Harold H. Kolb, Jr. -- Thoreau's last words : and America's first literatures / Jarold Ramsey -- In the American canon / Robert Hemenway -- The oral tradition and the study of American literature / Theresa Meléndez -- His life in his trail : the Native American trickster and the literature of possibility / Andrew Wiget -- The African American animal trickster as hero / John W. Roberts -- Orality and Hispanic literature of the United States / Nicolás Kanellos -- Oral tradition and poetic influence : two poets from greater Mexico / José E. Limón -- Oral tradition in Kingston's China men / Linda Ching Sledge. 505 0 Archaeology, ideology, and African American discourse / Houston A. Baker, Jr. -- Canonical and noncanonical texts : a Chicano case study / Juan Bruce-Novoa -- Puerto Rican literature in the United States : stages and perspectives / Juan Flores -- Chinese American women writers : the tradition behind Maxine Hong Kingston / Amy Ling -- Twelve Asian American writers : in search of self-definition / Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- Three nineteenth-century American Indian autobiographers / A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff -- African American progress-report autobiographies/ Frances Smith Foster -- Minority and multicultural literature, including Hispanic literature ; African American literature / A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff ... [et al.]. 505 0 American Indian literature / A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff -- Asian American literature / Amy Ling -- Chicano literature / Teresa McKenna -- Puerto Rican literature in the United States / Edna Acosta-Belén. 650 0 American literature |xMinority authors |xHistory and criticism. |=^A160911 650 0 Ethnic groups in literature. |=^A142284 650 0 Minorities in literature. |=^A142282 650 0 Ethnicity in literature. |=^A163819 650 0 Canon (Literature) |=^A186613 651 0 America |vLiteratures. |=^A651403 700 1 Ruoff, A. LaVonne Brown. |=^A210510 700 1 Ward, Jerry W., |cJr., |d1943- |=^A289680 919 BOOK 590 Little-316493--305131023140N 596 1 2 998 423476