INDEX Abbey, Edward 148 Abinader, Elmaz 155 “Above Pate Valley” (Gary Snyder) 86 “Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight” (Vachel Lindsay) 57 Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner) 72 Abu-Jaber, Diana 155 Accidental Tourist, The (Anne Tyler) 142 Acker, Kathy 142 Actual, The (Saul Bellow) 103 Adams, Abigail 25 Adams, Henry 53 Address to the Negroes of the State of New York, An (Jupiter Hammon) 13 Adventures of Augie March, The (Saul Bellow) 103 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) 40, 48-49 Affliction (Russell Banks) 140 Affluent Society, The (John Kenneth Galbraith) 101 Afterlife and Other Stories, The (John Updike) 139 Age of Innocence, The (Edith Wharton) 53 Aiiieeeee! (Frank Chin, ed.) 94 Albee, Edward 117, 119 Alcott, Bronson 27, 28 Alcott, Louisa May 27 Alexander, Meena 154 Alexie, Sherman 152 Ali, Agha Shahid 127 Allen, Donald 86, 89 Allende, Isabel 153 Allison, Dorothy 144 All My Sons (Arthur Miller) 98 All the King’s Men (Robert Penn Warren) 98 All the Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy) 144 All the Sad Young Men (F. Scott Fitzgerald) 70 Alurista 91 Alvarez, Julia 153 Always Running (Luis Rodriguez) 151 Amateur Marriage, The (Anne Tyler) 142 Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The (Michael Chabon) 143 Ambassadors, The (Henry James) 52 America Is in the Heart (Carlos Bulosan) 154 American, The (Henry James) 52 Americana (Don DeLillo) 141 American Buffalo (David Mamet) 119 American Daughter, An (Wendy Wasserstein) 140 American Dream, The (Edward Albee) 117 American Geography (Jedidiah Morse) 21 “American Liberty” (Philip Freneau) 20 American Pastoral (Philip Roth) 111 American Poetry in the Twentieth Century (Kenneth Rexroth) 87 American Primitive (Mary Oliver) 130 American Tragedy, An (Theodore Dreiser) 47, 54-55, 57, 78 America Play, The (Suzan-Lori Parks) 140
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Ammons, A.R. 80, 130 Among the White Moon Faces (Shirley Geok-lin Lim) 154 Anaya, Rudolfo 91, 116 Ancient Evenings (Norman Mailer) 110 Anderson, Laurie 95 Anderson, Sherwood 55, 71, 75 Andrews, Bruce 95 Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt) 138 Angelou, Maya 91, 93, 116 Angels in America: Part One: Millennium Approaches (Tony Kushner) 139 Angels in America: Part Two: Perestroika (Tony Kushner) 139 Angle of Repose (Wallace Stegner) 147 Animal Dreams (Barbara Kingsolver) 149 Annie John (Jamaica Kincaid) 152 Another Country (James Baldwin) 102 Another You (Ann Beattie) 143 Antin, David 95 Antrim, Donald 141 Anywhere But Here (Mona Simpson) 147 Anzaldúa, Gloria 91, 149 “Appalachian Book of the Dead” (Charles Wright) 125 Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans, An (Lydia Child) 43 “Applicant, The” (Sylvia Plath) 83 Appointment in Samarra (John O’Hara) 102 Arabian Jazz (Diana Abu-Jaber) 155 Ariel (Sylvia Plath) 83 Armantrout, Rae 122 Armies of the Night, The (Norman Mailer) 107, 109 Arrowsmith (Sinclair Lewis) 72, 73 Arthur Mervyn (Charles Brockden Brown) 22 Ashbery, John 80, 88, 122 Ash-Wednesday (T.S. Eliot) 64 As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner) 72 Assistant, The (Bernard Malamud) 104 Atlantis (Mark Doty) 128 “At Melville’s Tomb” (Hart Crane) 68 “At the Fishhouses” (Elizabeth Bishop) 85 “At the Gym” (Mark Doty) 128 Atwood, Margaret 124 Auster, Paul 138, 142 Autobiography (Benjamin Franklin) 16, 18 Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (James Weldon Johnson) 59 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, The (Ernest Gaines) 111 Autobiography of My Mother, The (Jamaica Kincaid) 152 Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, The (Oliver Wendell Holmes) 33 Awake and Sing! (Clifford Odets) 78 Awakening, The (Kate Chopin) 50, 51 Awful Rowing Toward God, The (Anne Sexton) 83 Ayumi: A Japanese American Anthology (Janice Mirikitani, ed.) 94