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American Passages: A Literary Survey
Publisher
Annenberg Learner (Firm)
Publication Date
[2003]
Language
English
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From the eVideo
Garden of the World (3:46) --
John Steinbeck (3:44) --
Call for Unity (4:17) --
Carlos Bulosan (2:26) --
Bulosan's Success (3:18) --
Helena Maria Viramontes (2:37) --
Mexican American Women in the Land of Plenty (4:02) --
Steinbeck, Bulosan, and Viramontes' Legacies (1:18) --
Credits: Migrant Struggle-American Passages: A Literary Survey (0:57)
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Exploring Identity (3:47) --
Maxine Hong Kingston (3:57) --
Discovering Adulthood (2:37) --
Oppression and Culture (3:38) --
Sandra Cisneros (4:12) --
Leslie Feinberg (6:35) --
Critiquing Oppression and Diversity (0:48) --
Credits: Search for Identity-American Passages: A Literary Survey (0:56)
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American South (4:21) --
Mark Twain (3:31) --
Samuel Clemens (4:03) --
Charles Chestnutt (2:27) --
Chestnutt's Early Years (3:29) --
Kate Chopin (3:04) --
Breaking Down Stereotypes (2:34) --
Final Thoughts (2:00) --
Credits: Regional Realism-American Passages: A Literary Survey (0:57)
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Southern History (1:28) --
Southern Agrarians (2:02) --
Yoknapatawpha Coaunty (3:43) --
Non-Linear Storytelling (2:22) --
Addressing New Race and Class Issues (3:46) --
Moving On (0:59) --
Great Migration (3:35) --
Different Vision of the South (2:38) --
Not a Problem Novel (2:45) --
Hearston's Final Work (2:13) --
Credits:Southern Renaissance-American Passages: A Literary Survey (0:53)
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Ezra Pound (2:09) --
T.S. Eliot (2:05) --
William Carlos Williams (3:11) --
Minimalist Poetry (1:58) --
Allen Ginsberg (3:44) --
Great Migration (2:03) --
Langston Hughes (4:35) --
Defining African American Culture (4:34) --
Hughes and Williams (1:09) --
Credits: Rhythms in Poetry-American Passages: A Literary Survey (0:56)
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Slavery in America (3:11) --
Frederick Douglass (2:45) --
Self-Made Man (5:11) --
Harriet Jacobs (2:01) --
Jacobs' Self-Preservation (4:14) --
Harriet Beecher Stowe (2:31) --
Sentimental Novel (4:28) --
Stow, Jacobs, and Douglass' Legacies (1:06) --
Credits: Slavery and Freedom-American Passages: A Literary Survey (0:56)
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American Affluence (2:38) --
Ralph Ellison (3:12) --
Ellison's Jazz (3:58) --
Philip Roth (4:21) --
Roth's Reoccurring Themes (2:05) --
N. Scott Momaday (5:39) --
Momaday Wins Pulitzer Prize (2:16) --
Hero's Journey (1:24) --
Credits: Becoming Visible-American Passages: A Literary Survey (0:52)
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War to End All Wars (3:56) --
Gertrude Stein (1:33) --
Modernist Art Revolution (2:37) --
Experimental Painting (2:13) --
Ernest Hemingway (3:37) --
Hemingway and Death (3:19) --
F. Scott Fitzgerald (5:33) --
Fitzgerald and Loss (1:54) --
Expatriates (0:47) --
Credits: Modernist Portraits-American Passages: A Literary Survey (0:56)
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Ancient Oral Tradition (4:20) --
Non-Linear Storytelling (3:32) --
Luci Tapahonso (3:39) --
Simon Ortiz (3:55) --
Native American Soldiers (1:49) --
Leslie Marmon Silko (3:44) --
Silko's Early Years (2:47) --
Native American Authors (1:45) --
Credits: Native Voices-American Passages: A Literary Survey (0:55)
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Cold War Influence (2:35) --
Allen Ginsberg (3:54) --
Ginsberg's Heroes (3:05) --
Amiri Baraka (2:01) --
Baraka's Trip to Cuba (5:53) --
Adrienne Rich (3:02) --
Heroes of Women (3:42) --
Final Thoughts (1:23) --
Credits: Poetry of Liberation-American Passages: A Literary Survey (0:56)
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New World (3:33) --
John Winthrop (2:43) --
John Winthrop's New Israelites (2:52) --
New Christian World (5:46) --
Salem Witch Trials (1:52) --
William Penn (3:57) --
Peaceful Coexistence with Native Americans (2:23) --
City on a Hill (2:23) --
Credits: Utopian Promise-American Passages: A Literary Survey (0:56)
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Gilded Age (3:38) --
America's New Voices (2:52) --
Edith Wharton (2:53) --
Gender Observations (5:20) --
Anzia Yezierska (4:06) --
Immigration and Assimilation (4:49) --
Exposing America (1:55) --
Credits: Social Realism-American Passages: A Literary Survey (0:56)
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American Identity (3:09) --
Benjamin Franklin (3:06) --
Preserving Virtue (3:22) --
Benjamin Franklin's Influence (2:48) --
Ralph Waldo Emerson (3:16) --
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nature (3:01) --
Emerson's "American Scholar" (3:06) --
Recognizing Self (2:05) --
Waldo and Franklin's Legacies (1:45) --
Credits: Spirit of Nationalism-American Passages: A Literary Survey (0:55)
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Aztlan (3:39) --
Bernal Diaz del Castillo (4:07) --
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (3:46) --
Mestizo Identity (1:48) --
Americo Paredes (3:53) --
Gloria Anzaldua (2:13) --
La Malinche (3:54) --
Mestizo Voice (2:05) --
Exploring Borderlands-American Passages: A Literary Survey (0:56)
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Future Shock (3:00) --
Nathaniel Hawthorne (3:00) --
Absolute Faith (2:01) --
Herman Melville (3:32) --
Melville's Early Years (3:13) --
What is America? (2:06) --
Emily Dickinson (3:37) --
Dickinson's Dash (3:42) --
Deep Uncertainty (1:11) --
Credits: Gothic Undercurrents-American Passages: A Literary Survey (0:58)
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New Frontier (2:36) --
Manifest Destiny (3:36) --
James Fenimore Cooper (4:29) --
American Masculinity (2:50) --
John Rollin Ridge (4:57) --
Walt Whitman (6:58) --
Credits: Masculine Heroes-American Passages: A Literary Survey (0:56)
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