Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Crucial Contingencies and Critical Patriotism
  • African American Histories and Hopes: Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition and David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident
  • Native American Histories and Hopes: Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine
  • Great Depression Histories and Hopes: John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart
  • Caribbean American Histories and Hopes: Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker
  • AIDS Epidemic Histories and Hopes: Tony Kushner's Angels in America and Alice Hoffman's At Risk
  • Refugee Histories and Hopes: Mark Bixler's The Lost Boys of Sudan and Dave Eggers's What Is the What
  • Conclusion: Finding the Road to Hope: Cormac McCarthy's The Road.