Call for Contributors: Twentieth Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context
Call for Contributors
Twentieth Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Date: 2019
Editor: Dr. Linda De Roche
Dr. Linda De Roche invites you to contribute to a four volume reference work, Twentieth Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context, to be published by ABC-CLIO in mid-2019. The 1,000 – 2,500- word essays should focus as much on historical and cultural contexts as biographical detail and/or plot summary. They should also consider each subject’s place within the American literary canon. Subjects include not only canonical writers and works but also those which may have been forgotten or overlooked and those which deserve to be discovered or are in process of entering the canon. Contributors must be prepared to meet a 15 August 2018 deadline for submission of their work.
Please email Dr. Linda De Roche, Professor of English and American Studies, Wesley College, Dover, De, at linda.deroche@wesley.edu for additional information.
TWENTIETH CENTURY AND CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE IN CONTEXT
HEADWORD WORD COUNT CONTRIBUTOR
Adams, Alice 1,500
*Algren, Nelson 1,000
*An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser 1,500
*Anderson, Sherwood 1,500
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand 1,500
Auchincloss, Louis 1,500
*Bambara, Toni Cade 1,000
Banks, Russell 1,500
*Barrett, Andrea 1,000
*Barthelme, Donald 1,500
Beattie, Ann 1,500
*Beloved, Toni Morrison 1,500
*The Book of the Month Club 1,000
*Boyle, T. Coraghessan 1,500
The “Brat Pack”
*The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder 1,000
Buck, Pearl 1,500
Butler, Robert Olen 1,500
Calisher, Hortense 1,000
Candelaria, Nash 1,500
Caputo, Philip 1,500
Carruth, Hayden 1,000
Casey, John 1,500
*Catch-22, Joseph Heller 1,500
Cheever, John 1,500
Cisneros, Sandra 1,500
*Clampitt, Amy 1,500
*The Color Purple, Alice Walker 1,500
*Dance Night, Dawn Powell 1,000
Dew, Robb Forman 1,000
Dexter, Pete 1,500
Doerr, Harriet 1,500
Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.) 1,500
*Doty, Mark 1,000
Euphoria, Lily King 1,000
Ferris, Joshua 1,500
Flanner, Janet 1,500
Fowler, Karen Joy 1,500
Frazier, Charles 1,500
*Fugitive Poets 1,500
*Gaitskill, Mary 1,500
Gass, William 1,500
Glass, Julia 1,500
Godwin, Gail 1,500
*Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell 1,500
The Good Earth, Pearl Buck 1,000
Goodman, Allegra 1,500
*Graham, Jorie 1,500
*Grey, Zane 1,500
*Groff, Lauren 1,500
*Harrison, Jim 1,500
Hass, Robert 1,500
*Hayden, Robert 1,500
Hazzard, Shirley 1,500
*Heinlein, Robert A. 1,500
*Heller, Joseph 1,500
Herr, Michael 1,500
Hersey, John 1,500
Highsmith, Patricia 1,500
*Hiroshima, John Hersey 1,500
Hood, Ann 1,500
Howard, Maureen 1,500
Ignatow, David 1,500
Irving, John 1,500
*Jen, Gish 1,500
Jin, Ha 1,500
Johnson, Denis 1,500
Johnson, Diane 1,500
Johnson, Josephine 1,500
*Jones, Edward P. 1,500
*Jones, Gayl 1,500
Jones, James 1,500
*The Jungle, Upton Sinclair 1,500
Kesey, Ken 1,500
King, Lily 1,500
*Kingsolver, Barbara 1,500
*Komunyakaa, Yusef 1,000
*Kopit, Arthur 1,000
Kosinski, Jerzy 1,500
Kumin, Maxine 1,500
*Kunitz, Stanley 1,500
Language Poets 1,500
Le Divorce, Diane Johnson 1,500
*Lee, Chang-Rae 1,500
Levine, Philip 1,500
Logan, William 1,500
Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry 1,500
Lurie, Alison 1,000
MacLeish, Archibald 1,500
Macmillan, Terry 1,500
*The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington 1,500
*The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Sloan Wilson 1,500
Martin, Valerie 1,500
McBride, James 1,500
McDermott, Alice 1,500
Merry Pranksters 1,500
*Millhauser, Steven 1,000
*Moore, Lorrie 1,500
Morris, Wright 1,500
*Morrison,Toni 2,000
*My Antonia, Willa Cather 1,500
Nemerov, Howard 1,500
Neo-Fabulists 1,000
New Yorker Style 1,500
*Nightwood, Djuna Barnes 1,500
Now in November, Josephine Johnson 1,500
O’Hara, John 1,500
O’Nan, Stewart 1,500
*Objectivist Poets 1,500
The Odd Woman, Gail Godwin 1,500
Olds, Sharon 1,500
Olsen, Tillie 1,500
*Olson, Charles 1,500
*Packer, ZZ 1,000
*Paley, Grace 1,500
Patchett, Ann 1,500
Phillips, Jayne Anne 1,500
Piercy, Marge 1,500
*Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion 1,500
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse 1,000
*Porter, Katherine Anne 1,500
Powell, Dawn 1,500
*Powers, Kevin 1,500
*Price, Reynolds 1,500
Primitivism 1,500
*Projective Verse 1,500
*Proletarian Novel 1,500
Pulp Fiction 1,500
Rand, Ayn 1,500
Ransom, John Crowe 1,500
*Robinson, E. A. 1,500
Roethke, Theodore 1,500
*Roth, Henry 1,500
*Russell, Karen 1,500
Settle, Mary Lee 1,500
Sexton, Anne 1,500
Simic, Charles 1,500
Simpson, Louis 1,500
*Sinclair, Upton 1,500
*Snyder, Gary 1,500
Soto, Gary 1,500
Spencer, Elizabeth 1,500
Stafford, William 1,500
*Stone, Robert 1,500
*Stranger in a Stranger Land, Robert Heinlein 1,500
*Styron, William 1,500
Tarkington, Booth 1,500
*Taylor, Peter 1,500
*Theroux, Paul 1,500
*This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald 1,500
Three Lives, Gertrude Stein 1,500
Transgressive Fiction 1,500
Tuck, Lily 1,500
Typical American, Gish Jen 1,500
*Walker, Alice 1,500
The Wapshot Chronicle, John Cheever 1,500
*Ward, Jesmyn 1,500
Warren, Robert Penn 1,500
*Welty, Eudora 1,500
*Wilder, Thornton 1,500
*Williams, C. K. 1,500
*Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson 1,500
*Wolfe, Thomas 1,500
*Yellowbirds, Kevin Powers 1,500
*Starred entries have been assigned