Early American Literature: A Bibliography of Secondary Material


MULTICULTURAL STUDIES IN GENERAL

Alberti, John, ed.  The Canon in the Classroom: The Pedagogical Implications of Canon Revision in American Literature. New York: Garland, 1995.

Burnard, Trevor. “Ethnicity in Colonial Historiography: A New Organising Principle?”  Australasian Journal of American Studies 11.1 (1992): 1-14. 

Calderon, Hector, and Jose David Saldivar, eds. Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology. Durham: Duke UP, 1991. 

Ch’maj, Betty E. M., ed. Multicultural America: A Resource Book for Teachers of Humanities and American Studies. Lanham: UP of America, 1993. 

Countryman, Edward.  Americans: A Collision of Histories. New York: Hill and Wang, 1996.

Dinnerstein, Leonard, Roger L. Nichols, and David M. Reimers. Natives and Strangers: Ethnic Groups and the Building of America. 1979. New York: Oxford UP, 1996. 

Fitz, Earl E. Rediscovering the New World: Inter-American Literature in a Comparative Context. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1991. 

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars. New York: Oxford UP, 1992. 

Gleason, Philip. “Confusion Confounded: The Melting Pot in the 1960s and 1970s.” Ethnicity 6.1 (1979): 10-20. 

---. “The Melting Pot: Symbol of Fusion or Confusion?”  American Quarterly 16.1 (1964): 20- 46. 

Godbeer, Richard. “‘The Cry of Sodom’: Discourse, Intercourse, and Desire in Colonial New England.” William and Mary Quarterly 52.2 (1995): 259-86. 

Goldberg, Jonathan.  Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1992.

Hollinger, David A.  PostEthnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism. New York: Basic Books,  1995. 

Jay, Gregory S. “The End of  ‘American’ Literature: Toward a Multicultural Practice.”  College  English 53.3 (1991): 264-81. 

Katz, Jonathan Ned.  Gay American History: Lesbians & Gay Men in the U.S.A: A Documentary  History. New York: Meridian, 1992. 

---. Gay/Lesbian Almanac: A New Documentary. New York: Harper & Row, 1983.

Kolodny, Annette. "Letting Go Our Grand Obsessions: Notes Toward a New Literary History of the American  Frontiers.” American Literature 64.1 (1992): 1-18.  

Krupat, Arnold. The Voice in the Margin: Native American Literature and the Canon. Berkeley: U of California P, 1989. 

Lauter, Paul. Canons and Contexts. New York: Oxford UP, 1991. 

Lovett-Graff, Bennett. “Culture Wars II: A Review Essay.” Modern Language Studies 25.3  (1995): 99-124. 

Mulford, Carla. “Recovering the Colonial, Beginning Again: Toward Multiculturalism in the Teaching of  Early American Studies.”  The Heath Anthology of American Literature Newsletter  No. 11 (Spring 1994): 2-8. 

Nash, Gary B. Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early America. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall,  1974. 

Nelson, Dana D. The Word in Black and White: Reading “Race” in American Literature, 1638-1867. New  York: Oxford UP, 1992. 

Parker, Hershel. “The Price of Diversity: An Ambivalent Minority Report on the American  Canon.”   College Literature 18.3 (1991): 15-29. 

Porter, Carolyn. “What We Know That We Don’t Know: Remapping American Literary Studies.”  American Literary History 6.3 (1994): 467-526. 

Reising, Russell J.  The Unusable Past: Theory and the Study of American Literature. New York: Methuen, 1986.

Roscoe, Will, ed. Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology. New York: St. Martin’s  P, 1988. 

Ruoff, A. LaVonne Brown, and Jerry W. Ward, Jr., eds. Redefining American Literary History.  New York: Modern Language Association, 1990. 

Saldivar, Jose David. The Dialectics of Our America: Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary  History. Durham: Duke UP, 1991.

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. The Disuniting of America. New York: Norton, 1992. 

Shuffelton, Frank, ed. A Mixed Race: Ethnicity in Early America.  New York: Oxford UP, 1993. 

Sollors, Werner. Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture. New York: Oxford UP, 1986.  (810.9 S688b)

Takaki, Ronald. A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. Boston: Little, Brown,   1993. 

Thernstrom, Stephan, ed. Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1980.

Trexler, Richard C.  Sex and Conquest: Gendered Violence, Political Order, and the European  Conquest of the Americas. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1995. 

Warner, Michael. “New England Sodom.” American Literature 64.1 (1992): 19-47. 

Wiget, Andrew. “Reading Against the Grain: Origin Stories and American Literary History.”  American  Literary History 3.2  (1991): 209-31. 

Williams, Walter L.  The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture.  Boston: Beacon P, 1986. 


The bibliographies were originally compiled by Prof. Edward J. Gallagher, Lehigh University, and are currently updated and sponsored by Minnesota State University Moorhead.
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