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x, 678 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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The American Multicultural Experience -- Notes toward Understanding -- Textual Notes -- [From] Verrazzano's Voyage: 1524 / Giovanni da Verrazzano (c. 1485-1528) -- [From] The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca / Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490-c.1557) -- [From] Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, 1604-1618 / Samuel de Champlain (c. 1567-1635) -- [From] The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles / John Smith (1580-1631) -- [From] Of Plymouth Plantation, Book I / William Bradford (1590-1657) -- [From] A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson / Mary Rowlandson (1636?-1711?) -- [From] An Account of the Remarkable Occurrences in the Life and Travels of Col. James Smith / James Smith (1737-1812) -- [From] The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano / Olaudah Equiano (1745?-1797?) -- [From] A Narrative of the Incidents Attending the Capture, Detention, and Ransom of Charles Johnston of Virginia / Charles Johnston (1769-1833). |
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[From] Domestic Manners of the Americans / Frances Trollope (1780-1863) -- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving (1783-1859) -- The Prairie / John James Audubon (1785-1851) -- [From] A Son of the Forest / William Apes (1798-?) -- The Maypole of Merry Mount / Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) -- The Two Camps / William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) -- [From] Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl / Harriet Jacobs (c. 1813-1897) -- [From] The Heroic Slave / Frederick Douglass (c. 1818-1895) -- [From] La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West / Francis Parkman (1823-1893) -- John Lamar / Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910) -- "Posson Jone"' / George Washington Cable (1844-1925) -- [From] Life among the Piutes / Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1844-1891) -- La Belle Zoraide / Kate Chopin (1851-1904) -- The Sheriff's Children / Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) -- Circumstances / Abraham Cahan (1860-1951) -- In the Land of the Free / Edith Maud Eaton (Sui Sin Far) (1865-1914). |
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[From] Giants in the Earth / Ole Rolvaag (1876-1931) -- [From] The Promised Land / Mary Antin (1881-1949) -- [From] Dust Tracks on the Road / Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) -- [From] Wah'Kon-Tah / John Joseph Mathews (c. 1894-1979) -- [From] Jews without Money / Michael Gold (1894-1967) -- Becky / Jean Toomer (1894-1967) -- A Justice / William Faulkner (1897-1962) -- [From] Pnin / Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) -- Studs / James T. Farrell (1904-1979) -- Antranik of Armenia / William Saroyan (1908-1981) -- [From] Black Boy / Richard Wright (1908-1960) -- [From] Mount Allegro / Jerre Mangione (1909- ) -- [From] Christ in Concrete / Pietro diDonato (1911-1992) -- [From] America Is in the Heart / Carlos Bulosan (1913-1956) -- Flying Home / Ralph Ellison (1914- ) -- A Silver Dish / Saul Bellow (1915- ) -- [From] Eat a Bowl of Tea / Louis Chu (1915-1970) -- Tears of Autumn / Yoshiko Uchida (1921-1992) -- [From] No-No Boy / John Okada (1923-1971). |
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[From] I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings / Maya Angelou (1928- ) -- El Patron / Nash Candelaria (1928- ) -- [From] Sula / Toni Morrison (1931- ) -- The Cloud Has Spread Its Dark Hair / Ved Mehta (1934- ) -- [From] The Way to Rainy Mountain / N. Scott Momaday (1934- ) -- The Grandfather of the Sierra Nevada Mountains / Maxine Hong Kingston (1940- ) -- Rosa in Television Land / Daniela Gioseffi (1941- ) -- News from Phoenix / Joseph Geha (1944- ) -- Exchange Value / Charles Johnson (1948- ) -- The Man to Send Rain Clouds / Leslie Marmon Silko (1948- ) -- Mariah / Jamaica Kincaid (1949- ) -- Half and Half / Amy Tan (1952- ) -- The Red Convertible / Louise Erdrich (1954- ). |
| Subject |
Readers -- United States.
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United States -- Civilization -- Problems, exercises, etc.
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American fiction.
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College readers.
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| Indexed Term |
English prose |
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United States |
| Added Author |
Perkins, Barbara, 1933-
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Perkins, George B., 1930-
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| ISBN |
0195072227 |
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9780195072228 |
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