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Author Railton, Ben, 1977- author.

Title History and hope in American literature : models of critical patriotism / Ben Railton.

Publication Info. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.

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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Crucial Contingencies and Critical Patriotism -- African American Histories and Hopes: Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition and David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident -- Native American Histories and Hopes: Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine -- Great Depression Histories and Hopes: John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart -- Caribbean American Histories and Hopes: Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker -- AIDS Epidemic Histories and Hopes: Tony Kushner's Angels in America and Alice Hoffman's At Risk -- Refugee Histories and Hopes: Mark Bixler's The Lost Boys of Sudan and Dave Eggers's What Is the What -- Conclusion: Finding the Road to Hope: Cormac McCarthy's The Road.
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Subject American literature -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Literature and history -- United States.
Literature and history.
United States.
History in literature.
Hope in literature.
History in literature.
Hope in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Railton, Ben, 1977- author. History and hope in American literature Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2017 9781442276369 (DLC) 2016033713
ISBN 9781442276376 (electronic)
1442276371
9781442276369 (hardback) (alkaline paper)
1442276363