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WRT 102 - Desert Vista: Analyzing Selected Literary Works: Historical Background

WRT 102

Selected Sources for Historical Background on the Authors' Works

Louise Erdrich--"The Red Convertible"

GVRL Literature and Its Times
Examines historical background of novel Love Medicine, that includes short story "The Red Convertible."
Critical Insights--Louise Erdrich
The 1970's in America
Featured Article, Louise Erdrich, Univ. of Minnesota
"Erdrich's the Red Convertible"

James Baldwin--"Sonny's Blues"

Tim O'Brien--"The Things They Carried"

GVRL Literature and Its Times
Examines historical background of novel
Critical Insights: American Creative Nonfiction
The Vietnam in Me
The 1970's in America
"The Things That They Carried" Literary Themes
Contains historical overview
"The Things He Carries", Interview
Critical Insights--Tim O'Brien

Luis Valdez--Los Vendidos

Encyclopedia of Hispanic- American Literature
California: Chicano Movement Era
Latino and Latina Authors
The 1960's in America
When Sleeping Giants Awaken
Zoot Suit at the time the play was written
Contains historical information about the 1960's during the time Los Vendidos was written
Valdez--A Life in the River of Humanity
El Teatro's Living Legacy

Charlotte Perkins Gilman--"The Yellow Wallpaper"

GVRL Literature and Its Times
Examines historical background during the time of the short story
Great Lives From History: The 20th Century
Feminism in Literature
American History Through Literature
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Contains discussion on "The Yellow Wallpaper"
Why I Wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper"
(This article by Charlotte Perkins Gilman originally appeared in the October 1913 issue of The Forerunner).

Rosario Morales--"The Day It Happened"

New Ways of Telling: Latinas' Narratives
Gender Justice in Puerto Rico
Together as Women,Writers, Puerto Ricans, and Jews
Latina Writers
The Making of a Curandera Historian: Aurora Levins Morales
Interview: Rosario Morales
Entitled: Voices of Feminism Oral History Project
Grounding Oneself at the Crossroads: Getting Home Alive