Contemporary American literature

Part 2 book "American literature (Revised edition)" includes content: American Prose, 1945–1990; Contemporary American poetry; Contemporary American literature;... We invite you to consult!

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The key text chosen for this study is the contemporary American novel The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Whilst Sebold‟s first book Lucky was the autobiographical account of her own rape, The Lovely Bones is Sebold‟s first novel, and tells the fictional story of the rape and murder of fourteen year old Susie Salmon, in December 1973 on the eve of her high school career.

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U•X•L Encyclopedia of World Biography features 750 biographies of notable historic and contemporary figures from around the world. Chosen from American history, world history, literature, science and math, arts and entertainment, and the social sciences, the entries focus on the people studied most often in middle school and high school, as identified by teachers and media specialists.

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This book is intended as a companion volume to Contemporary British Literature; but the differences between conditions in America and in England have made it necessary to alter somewhat the original plan. In America today we have a few excellent writers who challenge comparison with the best of present-day England. We have many more who have been widely successful in the business of making novels, poems, plays, which cannot rank as literature at all.

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The very title of Jean Lau Chin's book—Learning from My Mother's Voice—both honors her mother, a courageous woman who immigrated to the United States from China, and indicates her mother's primary role within the text as she describes life both in China and in the United States, as well as her own immigration journey. It is a tribute to her mother and other women who experienced immigration then and now. Examining the life of one's mother often means the exploration of geography (i.e., place), time period, and people central to her life.

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