Chinua Achebe | Dorothy Allison | Sherwood Anderson | Margaret Atwood

James Baldwin | Toni Cade Bambara | Ann Beattie | Ambrose Bierce | Jorge Luis Borges

Kevin Canty | Raymond Carver | R. V. Cassill | Willa Cather | John Cheever | Anton Chekhov | Kate Chopin | Sandra Cisneros | Joseph Conrad | Stephen Crane

Tsitsi Dangarembga | Don De Lillo

Ralph Ellison | Louise Erdrich

Sources copied from old authors1 webpage to be verfied, reformatted or deleted:

Chinua Achebe: Overview http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/achebe/achebeov.html
including links like Nigeria: Political and Social Contexts Overview
and The Role of Women in Things Fall Apart (June Chun '94; English 32, 1990)
from Contemporary Postcolonial & Postimperial Literature in English (George P. Landow, Brown Univ.)::
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/misc/postov.html

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart Study Guide (Paul Brians, Washington State Univ.):
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/anglophone/achebe.html

Chinua Achebe (Hasbiniz Web Library): photo, biography, related links
http://hasbiniz.com/fiction/general_fiction/achebe_/index.htm

New York State Writers Institute: Chinua Achebe
(University at Albany's African Student Association and Project Renaissance)
http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/achebe.html

Next Achebe source goes here

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About the Author [of bestseller Bastard Out of Carolina, finalist for the 1992 National Book Award; and made into a film directed by Anjelica Huston, 1996) http://www.penguinputnam.com/cavedwel/author.htm
...with links including A Conversation with Dorothy Allison:
http://www.penguinputnam.com/cavedwel/intervw.htm
...Amazon.com Interview with Dorothy Allison:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/show-interview/a-d-llisonorothy/002-5722113-7673201

Dorothy Allison: Biography (from Penguin Online Auditorium, November 9, 1999, 8 p.m. EST)
http://longman.awl.com/auditorium/allison.htm

Allison, Dorothy E (Felice Aull, Ph.D., New York Univ.):
http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webauthors/allison371-au-.html

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Winesburg, Ohio( E-text & image)
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/ANDERSON/cover.htmlHypertexts
from American Studies at the Univ. of Virginia: http://xroads.virginia.edu/

Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap7/anderson.html
from "Chapter 7: Early Twentieth Century" (Paul P. Reuben, PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide)

The Sherwood Anderson Foundation Home Page (Univ. of Richmond):
http://www.urich.edu/~journalm/sahome.html

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Atwood's Own Official Margaret Atwood Information Web Site (maintained by Sarah Cooper and Robert Atwood): information on Atwood's activities, her lecture schedule, her current writing projects, her forthcoming books and articles, and recent reviews she's written. http://www.web.net/owtoad/
Go to the Table of Contents: http://www.web.net/owtoad/toc.html

Margaret Atwood (Vernon R.J. Schmid & John Terning, Well Known Canadians): biography, filmography
http://alvin.lbl.gov/bios/Atwood.html

The Atwood Society's Margaret Atwood Information Site (The Margaret Atwood Society & Thomas B. Friedman,
University College of the Cariboo, Kamloops, British Columbia; 1999): bibliographies, images, links
http://www.cariboo.bc.ca/atwood/index.htm

Interview with Margaret Atwood (Marilyn Snell, MOJO Wire - Mother Jones, July/August 1997): "The activist author of Alias Grace and The Handmaid's Tale discusses the politics of art and the art of the con."
http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/JA97/visions.html

Canadian Poets: Margaret Atwood (Univ. of Toronto): biography, writing philosophy (text of Atwood's Waterstone's Poetry Lecture, delivered at Hay On Wye. Wales, June 1995) , links and more....
http://utl1.library.utoronto.ca/www/canpoetry/atwood/index.htm

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James Baldwin (1924-1987) http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/baldwin.html
from "Chapter 10: Late Twentieth Century"
(Paul P. Reuben, PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide)

Writing and Resistance: James Baldwin (Jody F. Kerr, 1999): biography, bibliography, criticism, links http://www.public.asu.edu/~metro/aflit/baldwin/index.html

Friedman, Otto. "Bearing Witness to the Truth: James Baldwin, 1924-1987."
Time 14 Dec. 1987: 80(2 pp.). Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A6162607.
Abstract: Appreciative obituary notice after Baldwin died of cancer in 1987.

Kaplan, Roger. "Though His Oeuvre Is Uneven, Baldwin Wrote Well and True."
Insight on the News 27 Apr. 1998: 36(1p). Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A20523841.
A brief and balanced survey of Baldwin's writing achievement.

Leslie, Naton. "Letters from the Thirties."
The North American Review 282.3-4(May-Aug. 1997): 72(4pp). Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A19530218.
Abstract: "The life of James Baldwin is explored as the backdrop to speculating about
a 1931 letter from one George Tirner, found in a book written by Baldwin.
The letter writer's hard times are compared to Baldwin's difficult life of exile and his struggles with the racism of the era. Baldwin's life is well known, and the writer of the letter is completely unknown, but both men clearly faced enormous challenges in their lives. As a subtext, jazz is described as a metaphor for the rhythms found in Baldwin's work."

Rochman, Hazel. Rev. of James Baldwin: Voice from Harlem.
[1997 biography of James Baldwin] By Todd Gottfried.
Booklist 93.18 (15 May 1997): 1569(1pp). Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A19485834.
"Review Grade: A....[A] highly readable biography of a great American writer..."

Tsomondo, Thorell. "No Other Tale to Tell: 'Sonny's Blues' and Waiting for the Rain."
CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 36.3(Spring 1995): 195(15 pp.).
Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A16990731.
Abstract: "James Baldwin's short story 'Sonny's Blues' and Charles Mungoshi's novel Waiting for the Rain are both concerned with minorities seeking to validate and perpetuate their marginalized histories through performance. 'Sonny's Blues' is set among the ghettoes of New York in which an African American pianist whose performance unifies his audience in a sense of shared history. Meanwhile, the tribal youth in Waiting for the Rain relays [Mungoshi's] people's traditional stories through his drum playing."

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The Toni Cade Bambara Page (Roger Blackwell Bailey, San Antonio College LitWeb)
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/bambara.htm

Writing and Resistance: Toni Cade Bambara (Jody F. Kerr, 1999): biography, bibliography, criticism, links http://www.public.asu.edu/~metro/aflit/bambara/index.html

In Praise of Toni Cade Bambara (Alice Lovelace, In Motion Magazine article)
http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/bambara.html

Creative Quotations from . . .Toni Cade Bambara (Franklin C. Baer, Baertracks, 1999)
http://www.bemorecreative.com/one/894.htm

Toni Cade Bambara (Rose State College, 1998): bibliography & some links
http://www.rose.cc.ok.us/research/re05009.htm

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Ann Beattie (Vintage Books' Reading Group Center): biography
http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/read/mylife/beattie.html

Ann Beattie (USA) (Harbourfront Reading Series, 1997-1998)
http://www.icomm.ca/ifoa/ifoa97/beattie.html

Text of Ann Beattie's Introduction to the Fall 1995 Issue of Ploughshares:
http://www.emerson.edu/ploughshares/Fall1995/beattie_intro.html
(Beattie edited the Ploughshares Stories featured in this issue)

Ann Beattie Bookshelf (Reader's Choice): book reviews
http://www.thegrid.net/dakaiser/books/fiction/beattiea.htm

Ann Beattie (Felice Hull, Ph.D., New York Univ.):
http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webauthors/beattie468-au-.html

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Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?): http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap6/bierce.html
from "Chapter 6: Late Nineteenth Century: 1890-1910: American Naturalism" (Paul P. Reuben, PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide)

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The Garden of Forking Paths: For Jorge Luis Borges, another rich site from "Libyrinth" (A. Ruch)
http://rpg.net/quail/libyrinth/borges/index.html
...including I, unfortunately, am Borges [biography]: http://rpg.net/quail/libyrinth/borges/borges.bio.html
plus photos, literary criticism, interviews and much more!

Man Without a Life: Ch. 1, by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria: "A biography of Jorge Luis Borges, who valued books and solitude above all things" http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/08/31/reviews/970831.31gonz01.html
Scroll down for More on Jorge Luis Borges: [links to articles on Borges] From the Archives of The New York Times, including "JORGE LUIS BORGES, A MASTER OF FANTASY AND FABLE, IS DEAD," by Edward A Gargan (New York Times 15 June 1986: Late City Final Edition Section 1; Part 1, Page 1): http://search.nytimes.com/books/search/bin/fastweb?getdoc+book-news+book-news+11249+0++

The Jorge Luis Borges Center for Studies & Documentation (The University of Aarhus in Denmark), "dedicated to the research of works by J. L. Borges": http://www.hum.au.dk/romansk/borges/english.htm

"If I Had My Life to Live Over Again" by Jorge Luis Borges (Nadine Stair, Patrick Combs' Good Thinking Site):
http://www.goodthink.com/nadine.html

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Raymond Carver (Phillip Carson): biography, bibliography, essays, links:
http://world.std.com/~ptc/
including links like Echoes of Our Own Lives: Interview with Raymond Carver (David Koehne, conducted April 15, 1978): http://world.std.com/~ptc/rayarticle.html

Fiction: Raymond Carver (Bedford/St.Martins): biography, links, critical essays
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/fiction/carver.htm

Raymond Carver (1938-1988) - Raymond Clevie Carver (Kuusankosken kaupunginkirjasto, 1997): biography, bibliography, filmography: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rcarver.htm

Carver, Raymond (Felice Aull, Ph.D., New York Univ.):
http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webauthors/carver67-au-.html
...Cathedral (annotated by Carol Donley)
http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/carver744-des-.html

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Willa Cather (1873-1947) http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap7/cather.html
from "Chapter 7: Early Twentieth Century" (Paul P. Reuben, PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide)

Willa Cather Home Page (Harvard Univ.): http://icg.harvard.edu/~cather/home.html
http://icg.harvard.edu/~cather/

Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation:
http://willacather.org/

The Willa Cather Page (Roger Blackwell Bailey, SAC LitWeb - San Antonio College LitWeb)
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/cather.htm

Cather, Willa - Paul's Case (annotated by Marjorie S. Sirridge, New York Univ.):
http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/cather1227-des-.html

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John Cheever Bookshelf (Reader's Choice): http://www.thegrid.net/dakaiser/books/fiction/cheeverj.htm

John Cheever (American Literature on the Web): http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/c/cheever21.htm

"The Swimmer," by John Cheever, an essay by Michael Chabon (Personal Best, Salon Online Magazine)
http://www.salon1999.com/weekly/cheever960930.html

John Cheever: Parody and the Suburban Aesthetic, hyperlinked essay by John Dyer:
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CLASS/MA95/dyer/cheever4.htm
Bibliography by John Dyer: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CLASS/MA95/dyer/cheevbib.htm

John Cheever (Kuusankosken kaupunginkirjasto, 1997): http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/cheever.htm

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Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904) - Internet Public Library: Online Literary Criticism Collection
http://www.ipl.org/cgi-bin/ref/litcrit/litcrit.out.pl?au=che-266

Mirror of Yvan Russell's Anton Chekhov Home Page: "all of the Chekhov-related info on the internet" including photo, extensive links to works, reviews, criticism, places associated with Chekhov, and much more.  [broken link, 10/22/03, CA]
http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/ac/yr/Anton_Chekhov.html

Anton Chekhov - AKA [pseud.] "ANTOSHA CHEKHONTE" 1860-1904 (Nebraska Center for Writers, Brent Spencer, English Dept, Creighton University, Omaha, NE )
http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/chekhov.htm
...including Chekhov on Writing: http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/chekwrit.htm
...Chekhov's Legacy: http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/chekleg.htm
...& What the Critics Say about Chekhov: http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/chekcrit.htm

Taganrog Central virtual tour of Chekhov's birthplace: Can't Find 10/22/03 CA
home page: http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/a/amakhank/taganrog/
virtual tour of Chekhov's birthplace: Can't Find 10/22/03 CA

Visit Chekhov's gravesite in Novo-Devichy Cemetery, Moscow (Find a Grave):
New URL: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=193 (10/22/03, CA)
Old URL: http://www.findagrave.com/pictures/193.html

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) (Eldrich Press, Eric Eldred) offers many of Chekhov's works online
http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/ac/chekhov.html [broken link, 10/22/03, CA]
...including E-text of "Lady with Lapdog" - trans. Ivy Litvinov as "The Lady with the Dog"
http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/ac/lapdog.html [broken link, 10/22/03, CA]

Anton P. Chekhov (Felice Aull, Ph.D., New York Univ.) Literature, Arts & Medicine Database, 51st ed. 2003. http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webauthors/chekhov68-au-.html
Literature Annotations: "The Lady with the Dog" (Annotated by Jack Coulehan):
http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/chekhov11775-des-.html

Anton Chekhov Quotes (BilLee's Fabulous Quotes):
http://www.cp-tel.net/miller/BilLee/quotes/Chekhov.html [broken link, 10/22/03, CA]

CORA's NOTE: the following  site does not address Anton Chekhov explicitly, but does provide interesting and useful deep background.
The Face of Russia (PBS Online) addresses questions like, "Who are the Russian people? How have they expressed their character and inner conflicts in their art and culture?"--a remarkable journey through "Russia’s cultural history by one of America’s pre-eminent Russian scholars, James H. Billington":
Entry page: http://www.pbs.org/weta/faceofrussia/

Davis, Clive. "Chronicler of a Dying World."
The Wilson Quarterly 22.4 (Autumn 1998): 95(4). Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A21240870.
Davis discusses the character of this "strong-willed genius" as portrayed in recent biographies, as well as Chekhov's attractions for modern readers.

Stanion, Charles. "Oafish Behavior in 'The Lady with the Pet Dog.'"
Studies in Short Fiction 30.3 (Summer 1993): 402(2). Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A14337006.
Abstract: "The transformation of Dmitry Gurov from lecher to caring lover
in Anton Chekhov's "The Lady with the Pet Dog" is reflected in a scene in the middle of the story that had previously been ignored by critics...."

Palmer, James.  "Mastering Chekhov: Heifitz's The Lady with the Dog." [Film adaptation, Russia, 1960].  Literature Film Quarterly 19.4 (1991): 252 (6pp).  EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite Article No. 9608053460.  
Abstract:  Palmer "evaluates the film adaptation of Anton Chekhov's . . . "The Lady with the Dog,' by director Josef Heifitz," who emphasizes small details and commonplace dialogue to "capture Chekhov's humor and pathos," expands the story "using leisurely characterization and pacing," and restricts on film Chekhov's "open-ended approach."  

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Chopin Page: Photo (American Literature Since 1865 course, Stephen Railton, Univ. of Virginia):
http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/enam312/kchp.html

Kate Chopin, "The Story of an Hour" (from Reading About the World, Vol. 2, eds. Paul Brians, et al):: E-text with discussion questions: http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/chopin.html

Kate Chopin, "The Story of an Hour" - Workshop (Litweb: W. W. Norton)
http://www.wwnorton.com/introlit/aut.htm
http://www.wwnorton.com/introlit/fiction/kchop/home.htm
including links like Biography of Kate Chopin by Neal Wyatt (with chronology) http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/eng384/katebio.htm
and essays like Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, and Local Color (Neal Wyatt, 1995) http://www.wwnorton.com/introlit/fiction/kchop/nwyatt.htm

"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin annotated Study Text by Ann Woodlief (click the footnotes):
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/eng384/hour1.htm

Study Text of "The Story of an Hour" (Full text with response prompts and notes on relevant literary terminology from San Diego State Univ.): http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/course/morgris/hour.html

Kate Chopin Web Page (maintained by students of Assumption College), with student interpretations, a biography, bibliography, and list of related sites: http://www.assumption.edu/html/academic/users/ady/hhromanticism/hhchopin/hpChopin.html

Louisiana Local Color: Short Stories of Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Kate Chopin (by Bryan D. Bourn)
http://www.usinternet.com/users/bdbourn/localc.htm

Kate Chopin (1851-1904) http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap6/chopin.html
from "Chapter 6: Late Nineteenth Century: 1890-1910: American Naturalism" (Paul P. Reuben, PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide)

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Fiction: Sandra Cisneros (Bedford/St. Martins): biography, links
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/fiction/cisneros.htm

Sandra Cisneros (Kelly Mathias , Voices from the Gap: Women Writers of Color, Univ. of Minnesota): biography, photo, bibliography, links: http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/SandraCisneros.html

Sandra Cisneros: (Internet School Library Media Center, James Madison Univ.): biography, bibliography, links, including:
...Teacher Resource Guide: http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/cisneros.htm
...Sandra Cisneros: A Bibliography: http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/cisnerosbib.htm
Of related interest: Hispanic Americans History & Literature for K12: http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/hispan.htm

Interview with Sandra Cisneros, by Reed Dasenbrock (Rpt. from Interviews with Writers of thePost-Colonial World, Feroza Jusawalla and Reed Dasenbrock [Jackson: University of Mississippi Press], 289-291.)
http://acunix.wheatonma.edu/rpearce/MultiC_Web/Authors/Sandra_Cisneros/body_sandra_cisneros.html

Sandra Cisneros, (Patricia Rollins Trosclair, Asst. to the Dean of Students for Multicultural Students, Skidmore College) - excerpt from "Original Sin," from Loose Women (1994): http://www.skidmore.edu/~ptroscla/cisneros.html

"Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street: An Appropriate Word, Sign, and Space" -- Alvina Quintana, USIA Winter Institute, 14 Feb. 1996 (Prepared by Patricia de Borjas and Cecilia Mafla), Univ. of Delaware:
http://odin.english.udel.edu/josephk/usia/maflapr.htm

"A House of My Own": Sandra Cisneros and the Art of Storytelling (Delores Zumwalt, Texas Women's Univ., 1995): http://twu.edu/www/twu/library/zumwalt.html

My collection of Sandra Cisneros essays (S. Gustafson), plus photo, glossary, bibliography, & links:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Workshop/4911/wgww/sandra/omain.html

Geniuses Can Come in Many Colors (by Rick Martinez, Hispanic Link News Service, 1995) on Cisneros' winning the MacArthur "genius" Fellowship: http://www.latino.com/genius.html

Carter, Nancy Corson. "Claiming the Bittersweet Matrix: Alice Walker, Sandra Cisneros, and Adrienne Rich." CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 35.4 (Summer 1994): 195(8pp).Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A15776024.
Abstract: "'Three books by Alice Walker, Sandra Cisneros, and Adrienne Rich exemplify the examination of women's personal identities from a communal perspective....Cisneros' The House on Mango Street covers Hispanic identity."

Jones, Malcolm, Jr. "The Desi Chain: The Rewriting of American Identity."Newsweek 10 July 1995: 34(2pp). Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A17212432.
Abstract: "Immigrant authors, only recently embraced by mainstream US publishers,
are producing stories of America from diverse cultural viewpoints.
They often find their cultural identity halfway between that of their native and adopted homes." "When Chicana writer Sandra Cisneros declares, 'I'm really a product of the planet,' she speaks for legions."

Matchie, Thomas. "Literary Continuity in Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street." The Midwest Quarterly 37.1 (Autumn 1995): 67(13pp). Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A17604084.
Abstract: "Edgar Branch identified an archetypal continuity which is both literary and cultural that linked J.D. Salinger's A Catcher in the Rye to Twain's Huckleberry Finn.
Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street forms a third chain in that link.
Speranza, her protagonist, parallels the growth of both Holden and Huck, from innocence to knowledge, all the while keeping a vulnerability which, paradoxically is a source of strength. The final paralleL is authorial. All three authors enter their respective novels through the narration, defining their respective novel's ultimate meaning."

Sagel, Jim. "Sandra Cisneros: Conveying the Riches of the Latin American Culture Is the Author's Literary Goal." [Biographical sketch & Interview with Cisneros.] Publisher's Weekly (May-Aug. 1997): 72 29 Mar. 1991: 74(2pp). Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A10526855.
Abstract: "'I'm trying to write stories that haven't been written'....Universal as her themes are, Cisneros knows her characters live in an America very different from that of her potential readers." The House on Mango Street is "a series of interlocking stories, alternately classified as a novel and as a collection of prose poems because of the vivid and poignant nature of the language." Now Cisneros is "'looking forward to the books I'll write when I'm 60'" and those of "other Latina and Latino writers" of the future. "'Chicano writers have a lot to say.'"

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REDO THIS:  Study Guide:  Heart of Darkness (1899; 1902), by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
(Cora Agatucci, English 103: Survey of British Literature, Spring 2001)
Reading & Discussion Questions; Resources for Further Study (WWW Links & extensive Bibliography)  http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng103/conrad.htm

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, including Heart of Darkness e-text
(Univ. of Texas-Austin course Literary Contexts and Contests)
"Africa and Africans in Conrad's Heart of Darkness"
(Essay by Candice Bradley on Heart of Darkness, with useful links)
Heart of Darkness Page created by students, explores the issues of "light vs. dark, or colonized vs. uncolonized;
the superiority of the English and how that relates to other texts written; and Conrad's own racism in the book"
for the course The Development of Empire: Narratives of Colonialism and Resistance in British Literature
(Bret Benjamin, Univ. of Texas-Austin)
Links of Interest to Conradians (Joseph Conrad Society of America,
designed in conjunction with the Cambridge University Press Edition
of the Works of Joseph Conrad, Kent State University Libraries & Media Services)
The Joseph Conrad Society, United Kingdom
http://www.pmpc.napier.ac.uk/scob/conrad/conrad.html
(Dr. Linda Dryden, Scottish Centre for the Book,
Dept. of Print Media, Publishing and Communication, Napier Univ., Edinburgh EH10 5HH)
Resources for the Study of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
(Martin Irvine, Georgetown Univ.)

Apocalypse Now 1979, dir. Frances Ford Coppola
(Internet Movie Database) based on Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Battlefield: Vietnam "Search and Destroy"/"Showdown on the Iron Triangle"
OPB TV: Suitable for Middle/High School/College: Friday, May 7, 1999 (9-10:00 pm)
"This series objectively examines the military realities of the Vietnam War. The first segment of this installment analyzes the soldiers, resources and weaponry of the Americans and the Vietcong, including the latter's remarkable tunnel system, while the second segment shows how, in one operation after another, Vietcong tactics frustrate American efforts to defeat them in set-piece battles, forcing the United States to reassess its strategy. (CC, 1 year)
Companion website: http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/
"access a multimedia timeline of the major battles of the Vietnam War,
trace the evolution of military air power, experience the siege of Khe Sanh through a Shockwave activity, and much more."

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Stephen Crane (1871-1900) http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap6/crane.html
from "Chapter 6: Late Nineteenth Century: 1890-1910: American Naturalism" (Paul P. Reuben, PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide)

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Sources copied from old authors1 webpage to be checked & reformatted or deleted:

Don DeLillo's America - A Don DeLillo Page (Curt Gardner), rich resource dedicated to "one of the most distinctive and interesting American writers of our day": http://perival.com/delillo/delillo.html
...including Don DeLillo Biography, with photo and many interview clips: http://perival.com/delillo/ddbio.html
...bibliography of Interviews with Don DeLillo: http://perival.com/delillo/ddinterviews.html
...DeLillo on Writing: http://perival.com/delillo/ddwriting.html
...Literary Criticism of Don DeLillo: http://perival.com/delillo/ddlitcrit.html

White Noise: Contemporary American Fiction (amazon.com) with reader comments

Review of Underworld, by Don DeLillo (Oregon Live: [Portland] Oregonian, Oct. 23, 1997): http://www.oregonlive.com/books/oct/BK971023FL_03.html

Don DeLillo on the Web (About.com): http://authors.tqn.com/library/weekly/aa102597.htm

Sources copied from old authors1 webpage to be checked & reformatted or deleted:

Ralph Ellison Webliography (Claude Henry Potts, UCLA): a rich site offering biography, timeline, criticism, bibliography, and much more. http://centerx.gseis.ucla.edu/weblio/

Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914-1994) http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/ellison.html
from "Chapter 10: Late Twentieth Century":
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/CHAP10.HTML
(Paul P. Reuben, PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide)

Writing and Resistance: Ralph Ellison (Jody F. Kerr, 1999): biography, bibliography, criticism, links
http://www.public.asu.edu/~metro/aflit/ellison/index.html

Ellison, Ralph (Felice Aull, Ph.D., New York Univ.):
http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webauthors/ellison583-au-.html
...Invisible Man [from which "Battle Royal" was taken], annotated by Ann Folwell Stanford:
http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/ellison1088-des-.html

Sources copied from old authors1 webpage to be checked & reformatted or deleted:

Louise Erdrich (Amy Leigh McNally and Piyali Nath Dalal, 1999, for Voices from the Gap: Women Writers of Color, Univ. of Minnesota): biography, bibliography, links: http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/LouiseErdrich.html

Fiction: Louise Erdrich (Bedford/St Martins): biography, links
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/fiction/erdrich.htm

"More Love Medicine: Louise Erdrich, who reads at Ted Mann Wednesday, says writing is her passion, not her political platform" (Story by Polly Sprenger, A&E feature, 11 Apr. 1996) - interview and reviews, with photo, link to biography:
http://www.daily.umn.edu/ae/Print/ISSUE25/cover.html

Erdrich, Louise (Felice Aull, Ph.D., New York University):
http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webauthors/erdrich166-au-.html
...Love Medicine (novel from which "The Red Convertible" was taken] annotated by Felice Aull
http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/erdrich153-des-.html

Ferguson, Suzanne. "The Short Stories of Louise Erdrich's Novels."
Studies in Short Fiction 33.4(Fall 1996): 541(15pp). Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A20906638.
Abstract: "In reading short stories, the reader often focuses on theme and symbol
rather than living vicariously through the character in a novel. The reader will focus on text
to determine the theme of the novel rather than scenes depicted in longer stories.
Louise Erdrich's offer alternative implications when they are read a short stories rather than as parts of novels."
From the article: "...Erdrich's theory of fiction appears to be based upon a conviction that people tell stories constantly to make sense of their lives, that 'reality' itself...is for humans the stories that we tell as means to analyze, understand, and control our history and our identity."

Howard, Jane. "Louise Erdrich: A Dartmouth Chippewa Writes
a Great American Novel [Love Medicine]." Life 8(Apr.1985): 27(3pp.).
Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A3710422.
Biographical profile and interview with Erdrich and her writer husband Michael Dorris,"
just after Erdrich's Love Medicine won the the National Book Critics Circle Award
and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' prize for best first fiction
"'I accept this award,' she said at the Critics Circle ceremony, 'in the spirit of the people who speak through the book.'".

Sanders, Karla. "A Healthy Balance: Religion, Identity, and Community
in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine." MELUS 23.12(Summer 1998): 129(19p.).
Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A54543101.
Abstract: "Louise Erdrich's 1993 novel Love Medicine portrays paths Native Americans can take to establish a healthy psychological and social balance in a culture often dominated by white Americans. Erdrich explores the tension between native and white identity, the natural and supernatural legacies of Native Americans, the power of language in fiction and everyday life, and the necessity to discard old identities and forge new ones."

Sutton, Brian." "Erdrich's Love Medicine." The Explicator 57.3(Spring 1999): 187(3pp). Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A55082546.
Abstract: "A critic has argued that author Louise Erdrich uses water as an all-pervasive symbolic link with the past and the natural environment and the automobile as the epitome of the present. However, Erdrich departs from this vehicle in the chapter entitled 'The Red Convertible,' and associates the car with a more natural state of affairs in the past and water with the unnatural times...closer to the present. An analysis of this chapter is presented."