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Critical Insights: Social Justice and American Literature

Table of Contents

About This Volume, Robert C. Hauhart & Jeff Birkenstein




On Social Justice in American Literature, Robert C. Hauhart & Jeff Birkenstein




Identities without Borders: June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, and the Legacy of Post-Civil Rights Black Feminism, David M. Jones




Stories of Place: Appalachian Literature as Locus of Environmental and Social Justice, Katherine E. Ledford




Embattled Terrains: The Body as the Site of Social (In)justice in American Literature, Ann M. Ciasullo




Chester Himes’s Dilemma, Kimberly Drake




“This Is the Way That I Am”: Early Indigenous American Women’s Literature, Tabitha A. Morgan




Port of Entry: Hidden Correspondence by Frederick Douglass to Anna Murray (Douglass), Katherine Cottle




Social Justice and Nineteenth-Century Realism: William Dean Howells’s A Hazard of New Fortunes, Todd Barosky




From Fugitive Slave to Harlem Housewife: The “Tragic Mulatto” in American Literature, Cynthia Cravens




Privilege on the Prairie: Western Expansion in the Writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Louise Erdrich, Mária I. Cipriani




“It Gets Better”: A Short History of Feminism, Body Policing, and Women’s Suicide, Erin Mavis Guydish




Liberation from Family, Class, Race, Culture, and Tribe in Early Philip Roth, Robert C. Hauhart & Alyssa M. Slate




The Social Justice-Legal Justice Cleavage in Modern American Literature, Almas Khan




Developing Morality by Exploring Social Justice in the Works of Walter Dean Myers, Sarah Minslow




Grand Narratives of Social Justice in Chang-Rae Lee’s Native Speaker and Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist, Peter Sloane




Margaret Atwood and Women’s Dystopic Fiction, Jeff Birkenstein & Ericka Manthey




Additional Works




Bibliography




About the Editors




Contributors