A study of all of Farah's novels and plays that compares each individual text to his cumulative body of work in which one discovers a consistent theme: the complex relationship between individual auto
Provides biographical material and an analysis of some dozen important texts, emphasizing those about the Klondike and the Pacific, his stories of social realism, and his fictional experimentation. A
O'Dell (1898-1989) is best known as the author of historical fiction for children, beginning with his 1960 Island of the Blue Dolphins . Russell (languages and literature, Ferris State U., Michigan)
A history of US-Vietnamese relations. Examines historical circumstances which lead to the Vietnam War, details the war itself, discusses events since the withdrawal of American forces from Vietnam in
Traces the development of the genre from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of World War I, from the transformations of later 19th-century America to the rise of modernism. Considers such dimen
Begins with analyses of Stegner's short fiction in the order and context of his storybook life--from early stories set in Saskatchewan to Robert Frost-influenced Vermont stories, to the West and trave
Two sociologists probe the grey areas, as it were, in the black-and-white picture of the white separatist movement. Dobratz (sociology, Iowa State U.) and Shanks-Meile (sociology, Indiana University
French, a past president of the John Steinbeck Society, places Steinbeck in the modernist tradition and asserts that Steinbeck's fiction of the 1930s exemplifies the ironic mode of the modernism of th
Traces the history of Asian immigration from the California gold rush to Vietnamese boat people, describes patterns of work, social adaptation, and family formation, and explains how they coped with d
A compelling appraisal of the southern writer's unique contributions to the tradition of the short story. Examines both the critical reception of Welty's short fiction and her responses, arguing that
