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  1. The encyclopedia sought to provide a "comprehensive discussion of literary practices within the United States from colonial times to the present" and consisted of 4 volumes and 350 essays drawn from 190 authors. The contributors were predominantly drawn from American institutions. The essays analyzed aspects of literature including books ...

  2. 6 days ago · 350 entries. This award-winning Encyclopedia surveys the vibrant terrain of American literature in 350 essays from leading scholars, encompassing the range and depth of American literary history from the 1600s to the present day. The Encyclopedia includes essays on poets, playwrights, essayists, and novelists, as well as major works and essays ...

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  4. May 14, 2010 · Physical therapist Leslie Wright (Queen Latifah) lands the dream job of working with basketball superstar Scott McKnight (Common). All goes well until Leslie finds that she is falling in love with ...

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  5. 2 Inventing Americas: The Making of American Literature 1800–1865 47 Making a Nation 47 The Making of American Myths 47 The Making of American Selves 59 The Making of Many Americas 71 The Making of an American Fiction and Poetry 90 3 Reconstructing the Past, Reimagining the Future: The Development of American Literature 1865–1900 115

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    61277693. Dewey Decimal. 813.52. Native Son (1940) is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright. It tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s. Thomas accidentally kills a white woman at a time when racism is at its peak and he pays the ...

    • Richard Wright, Arnold Rampersad
    • March 1, 1940
  7. Signature. William Cuthbert Faulkner ( / ˈfɔːknər /; [1] [2] September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life. A Nobel laureate, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated ...

  8. Other articles where Just Wright is discussed: Queen Latifah: …romantic comedies Valentine’s Day (2010), Just Wright (2010), and The Dilemma (2011). In Joyful Noise (2012) Queen Latifah starred opposite Dolly Parton as the director of a competitive church gospel choir. She followed that performance with a role as a Southern matriarch in the TV movie Steel Magnolias (2012), which,…