Language, Gender, and Community in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction

1. Introduction
Mary Jane Hurst

2. Finding One’s Place by Finding One’s Voice in Ernest J. Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying and Alice Walker’s Possessing the Secret of Joy

Mary Jane Hurst

3. Language and Gender in the Academic Communities of Ann Beattie’s Another You and John Updike’s Memories of the Ford Administration

Mary Jane Hurst

4. Balancing Self and Other through Speech and Silence in Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker and Amy Tan’s The Hundred Secret Senses

Mary Jane Hurst

5. Love, Destruction, and Wounded Hearts in the Fiction of Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris
Mary Jane Hurst

6. Contours of the Future in Denise Chávez’s Face of an Angel and Rudolfo Anaya’s Alburquerque

Mary Jane Hurst

7. Twenty-First-Century Reflections on American Voices and American Identities
Mary Jane Hurst

Keywords: Literature, North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Gender Studies, Fiction, Ethnicity Studies