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🏜️American Literature – 1860 to Present
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A

A Farewell to Arms
A Good Man is Hard to Find
A mercy
A Raisin in the Sun
A Sand County Almanac
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Adrienne Rich
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
African American experience
African American Folklore
African American Literary Canon
Afrocentrism
Afrofuturism
Algorithmic poetry
Alison Bechdel
All My Sons
Allen Ginsberg
Allusions and Intertextuality
Amanda Wingfield
Ambrose Bierce
America is in the Heart
American Pastoral
American Romanticism
Amiri Baraka
Amy Lowell
Amy Tan
An American tragedy
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Angels in America
Ann Petry
Anne Sexton
Anti-hero
As I Lay Dying
Assimilation vs cultural preservation
Atmospheric Settings
Authenticity in representation
Authorial intrusion
Autobiographical elements
Autobiography
Automatic Writing

B

Barbara Kingsolver
Beat poetry
Because I could not stop for Death
Black boy
Blackout poetry
Blanche DuBois
Bless Me, Ultima
Blues literature
Borderlands/la frontera
Brechtian alienation effect
Bret Harte
Bruce Sterling

C

Call and response
Camp and Irony
Carl Sandburg
Carlos Bulosan
Carson McCullers
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Chang-Rae Lee
Charlotte Perkins Gilman - 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
Chester Himes
Chosen family
Circular narrative
Class consciousness
Class struggle
Claude McKay
Clifford Odets
Climate fiction
Coded language
Collective Consciousness
Collective protagonists
Colloquialisms
Color Symbolism
Colson Whitehead