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i n d e x Aaron, Daniel, 135 The Unwritten War, 135 Aiken, Conrad, 14, 89 Allison, Dorothy, 204–5 Bastard Out of Carolina, 204–5 Apocalypse Now, 270 Arendt, Hannah, 144 Aristotle, 237 Ashbery, John, 255 “The Task,” 255 Atherton, Gertrude, 333 Auerbach, Eric, 48 Mimesis, 48 Austin, Mary, 30–37, 44, 83, 106–7, 212, 281 Earth Horizon, 83 Experiences Facing Death, 83 The Land of Little Rain, 30, 34–36, 212 Lost Borders, 30–37, 106, 212 Awkward, Michael, 85, 297 Bacon, Nathaniel, 96 Baker, Ella, 163, 198–99 Baker, Houston, 25 Baldwin, James, 65, 164, 174–83, 189, 215 Go Tell It on the Mountain, 174–83 Notes of a Native Son, 164, 174, 177, 180–82 “Sonny’s Blues,” 177–82 Band of Brothers, 135 Baraka, Amiri, 70 Dutchman, 70 Barth, John, 253 “The Literature of Exhaustion,” 253 Barthes, Roland, 59 Baym, Nina, 247 Beattie, Ann, 234, 239–44 The Burning House, 240 Chilly Scenes of Winter, 240 Distortions, 239–40 Falling in Place, 240 Love Always, 241 Picturing Will, 241 Secrets and Surprises, 239–40 Where You’ll Find Me, 241–44 Beckett, Samuel, 236 Endgame, 236 Benjamin, Walter, 250 “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” 250 The Best Years of Our Lives, 137 Betty Crocker’s Picture Cook Book, 211 Bishop, Elizabeth, 2, 37, 40, 52, 80, 162, 191, 215, 232, 306, 332–34 “At the Fishhouses,” 329–30 “Crusoe in England,” 2, 37, 52, 162, 232 “In the Waiting Room,” 306 “Questions of Travel,” 191 Biskind, Peter, 137 Blackmur, R. P., 190 Blake, William, 113, 200, 285 Bloom, Claire, 312 Bloom, Harold, 253, 333 The Anxiety of Influence, 253 Blum, John Morton, 150 V Was for Victory, 150 Boas, Franz, 78 Borges, Jorge Luis, 40, 253–54, 290, 334 Labyrinths, 253–54 394 Index Borges, Jorge Luis (continued) “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote,” 253–54 Bradley, A. C., 52 Branch, Taylor, 163–64, 185 Parting the Waters, 164 Brandeis, Louis D., 8 Brown, Cynthia Stokes, 188 Brown, Jessie, 332 Brown, Norman O., 215 Love’s Body, 215 Brown, William Wells, 16 Clotel, 16 Brown v. Board of Education, 164 Burroughs, William, 263–64 Bush, George W., 233, 321 Capote, Truman, 263–64, 279 Carter, Jimmy, 260 Carver, Raymond, 234, 244–49 Cathedral, 244 Fires, 244 Furious Seasons, 244 What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, 244–49 Where I’m Calling From, 244–49 Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, 244 Cather, Willa, 30, 37, 44, 47–52 Death Comes for the Archbishop, 44, 47–52 My Ántonia, 37, 44 The Professor’s House, 47–48, 50–51 The Song of the Lark, 30, 47 Cavell, Stanley, 84 The Senses of Walden, 84 Chambers, Mary E., 6–8 Chesnutt, Charles, 14–20, 26, 83, 297, 325, 333 The Colonel’s Dream, 14 The Conjure Woman, 83, 297 “The Courts and the Negro,” 15 The House Behind the Cedars, 14–20 The Marrow of Tradition, 14 Chopin, Kate, 30 Churchill, Winston, 135 The Gathering Storm, 135 Clark, Septima, 163–64, 185–89, 198, 215 Echo in My Soul, 188 Ready from Within, 185–89 Cleaver, Eldridge, 71–72, 201, 215, 297, 333 Soul on Ice, 71–72, 201 Clemens, Samuel, xv, 24, 104, 167, 188, 291 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, xv, 24, 104, 167, 171, 188 Clinton, William J., 323 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 10 Conrad, Joseph, 30, 43, 105, 268–70, 272, 277–78 Heart of Darkness, 105, 268–70, 272, 278 Lord Jim, 43, 277 The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus,’ 272 Crane, Hart, 23, 120 Davis, Angela, 331 DeLillo, Don, 234, 249–52 White Noise, 249–52 Denby, David, 105, 114 Denning, Michael, 106 The Cultural Front, 106 Derrida, Jacques, 43 de Saussure, Ferdinand, 43 Course in General Linguistics, 43 Diaz, Porfirio, 260 Dick, Philip K., 139 The Man in the High Castle, 139 Dickinson, Emily, 39 Didion, Joan, 8, 109, 116, 194, 215–16, 225–33, 279, 321 Slouching towards Bethlehem, 8, 109, 116, 225–33 The White Album, 230 The Year of Magical Thinking, 231–32 Di Donato, Pietro, 118–20 Christ in Concrete, 119–20 Donne, John, 70, 73 “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning,” 70, 73 Dos Passos, John, 76 U.S.A., 76 Douglas, Ellen, 205–6 A Lifetime Burning, 205–6 Douglass, Frederick, 26 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, 26 Dreiser, Theodore, 97, 105–11, 114–18, 120, 126, 128, 201 An American Tragedy, 105–11, 114–18, 120...

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