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LATE 20 TH CENTURY & MOST MODERNISM (1970 – 2000)

LATE 20 TH CENTURY & MOST MODERNISM (1970 – 2000). English & U. S . History Paper 11 th Grade 2011. EDWARD ABBEY THE MONKEY WRENCH GANG.

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LATE 20 TH CENTURY & MOST MODERNISM (1970 – 2000)

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  1. LATE 20TH CENTURY & MOST MODERNISM (1970 – 2000) English & U.S. History Paper 11th Grade 2011

  2. EDWARD ABBEYTHE MONKEY WRENCH GANG • “Ex-Green Beret George Hayduke has returned from war to find his beloved southwestern desert threatened by industrial development. Joining with Bronx exile and feminist saboteur Bonnie Abzug, wilderness guide and outcast Mormon Seldom Seen Smith, and libertarian billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, M.D., Hayduke is ready to fight the power-taking on the strip miners, clear-cutters, and the highway, dam, and bridge builders who are threatening the natural habitat.” • Historical Connections: Environmental movement

  3. EDWARD ABBEYDESERT SOLITAIRE: A SEASON IN THE WILDERNESS • “An account of the author's existence, observations and reflections, as a seasonal park ranger in southeast Utah.” • Historical Connections: Environmental movement, National Parks development

  4. PHILIP CAPUTOA RUMOR OF WAR • “In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenent Philip J. Caputo landed at Da Nang with the first ground combat unit deployed to Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home-- physically whole but emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism forever gone.” • Historical Connections: Vietnam War

  5. SANDRA CISNEROSTHE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET • “The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero. Told in a series of vignettes – sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous – it is the story of a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for herself who and what she will become.” • Historical Connections: Hispanic experience in America

  6. BOB DYLANLYRICS: 1962-2001 “This collection contains Bob Dylan's lyrics, from his first album, Bob Dylan, to 2001's "Love and Theft.”” Historical Connections: Social issues

  7. LOUISE ERDRICHLOVE MEDICINE • “Multigenerational saga of two extended families who live on and around a Chippewa reservation in North Dakota.” • Historical Connections: Contemporary Native American experience

  8. JONATHAN FRANZENTHE CORRECTIONS • “As her husband's health deteriorates, Enid faces the disappointments in her life including her three grown children.” • Historical Connections: Changing American dream, 1990s, Disintegration of the family

  9. ERNEST GAINESTHE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE PITTMAN • “This is a novel in the guise of the  tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has  lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a  witness to the black militancy of the 1960's.” • Historical Connections: African American experience

  10. ERNEST GAINESA LESSON BEFORE DYING • “A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.” • Historical Connections: Povery among African Americans

  11. KAYE GIBBONSELLEN FOSTER • “This novel, about an 11-year-old-girl who, after the death of her mother, summons the strength to escape from her abusive father.” • Historical Connections: Foster care & adoption issues in America

  12. TONY HILLERMANA THIEF OF TIME • “At a moonlit Indian ruin-where "thieves of time" ravage sacred ground in the name of profit-a noted anthropologist vanishes while on the verge of making a startling, history-altering discovery. At an ancient burial site, amid stolen goods and desecrated bones, two corpses are discovered, shot by bullets fitting the gun of the missing scientist.There are modern mysteries buried in despoiled ancient places. And as blood flows all too freely, Navajo Tribal Policemen Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee must plunge into the past to unearth an astonishing truth and a cold-hearted killer.” • Historical Connections: Contemporary Native Americans

  13. JOHN IRVINGA PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY • “A terrifying and unforgettable story of what happens in Meany's life as a result of hitting a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother.” • 1950s into Vietnam era.” • Historical Connections 1950s into 1960s America

  14. WILLIAM KENNEDYIRONWEED • “Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, a man trying to make peace with the ghosts of his past and present.” • Historical Connections: Great Depression

  15. SUE MONK KIDDTHE SECRET LIFE OF BEES • “In "The Secret Life of Bees," she explores a young girl's search for the truth about her mother; her courage to tear down racial barriers; and her joy as she claims her place within a community of women.” • Historical Connections: Civil Rights South

  16. MAXINE HONG KINGSTONTHE WOMAN WARRIOR: MEMOIRS OF A GIRLHOOD AMONG GHOSTS • “A fiercely honest autobiography of growing up Chinese-American in California chronicles Kingston's struggle to balance the “ghosts'' of her Chinese tradition with her new American values.” • Historical Connections: Asian American experience

  17. WALLY LAMBSHE’S COME UNDONE • “In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years. Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Stranded in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally orbits into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before she really goes under.” • Historical Connections: Mental illness in America, 1990s

  18. LARRY MCMURTRYLONESOME DOVE • “A cattle drive from Texas to Montana captures the history of the American West in truly epic fashion. The author takes almost every hoary tradition of the nineteenth-century western--i.e., the good-hearted scarlet lady, friendly and unfriendly Indians, strong-backed frontier folk--and gives each one new life and vitality.” • Historical Connections: Western life

  19. TONI MORRISONTHE BLUEST EYE • “The story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove--a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others--who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different.” • Historical Connections: Struggle of African American women

  20. GLORIA NAYLORTHE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE • “ It chronicles the communal strength of seven diverse black women who live in decaying rented houses on a walled-off street of an urban neighborhood.” • Historical Connections: Struggle of African American women

  21. JOYCE CAROL OATESBLACK WATER • “It all began when Kelly Kelleher was introduced to The Senator, a man she had wanted to meet since selecting him as the topic of her senior honors thesis. Charmed and infatuated, Kelly eagerly accepts his invitation to leave the island party where they've met and ride back to Boothbay Harbor together on the late night ferry.” • Historical Connections: Violence in American life

  22. TIM O’BRIENTHE THINGS THEY CARRIED • “A series of stories about the Vietnam experience, based on the author's recollections. O'Brien begins by sharing the talismans and treasures his select small band of young soldiers carry into battle.” • Historical Connections: Vietnam War

  23. LESLIE MARMON SILKOCEREMONY • “Thirty years since its original publication, Ceremony remains one of the most profound and moving works of Native American literature, a novel that is itself a ceremony of healing. Tayo, a World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. He is deeply scarred by his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese and further wounded by the rejection he encounters from his people. Only by immersing himself in the Indian past can he begin to regain the peace that was taken from him.” • Historical Connections: Post World War II veterans, Native American experience

  24. AMY TANTHE JOY LUCK CLUB • “In 1949 four Chinese women - drawn together by the shadow of their past - begin meeting in San Francisco to play mahjong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club. Nearly forty years later, one of the members has died. When her daughter comes to take her place, she learns of her mother's lifelong wish, and the tragic way in which it has come true.” • Historical Connections: Asian immigration, Asian American women experiences

  25. ALICE WALKERTHE COLOR PURPLE • “Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband has been keeping her sister's letters from her and the rage she feels, combined with an example of love and independence provided by her close friend Shug, pushes her finally toward an awakening of her creative and loving self.” • Historical Connections: Racism

  26. TOM WOLFETHE RIGHT STUFF • “Wolfe's 1979 volume chronicled the handful of adrenaline-junkie military test pilots who became the Mercury astronauts. Their story is juxtaposed against that of Chuck Yeager, the ace of aces pilot who broke the sound barrier but couldn't apply to the space program because he lacked a college degree. Wolfe also provides insight into the political motivations for the space race and the paranoia of the Cold War.” • Historical Connections: New Journalism, Space race, Cold War

  27. TOBIAS WOLFFTHIS BOY’S LIFE: A MEMOIR • “In this unforgettable memoir of boyhood in the 1950s, we meet the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning. Separated by divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are constantly on the move. Between themselves they develop an almost telepathic trust that sees them through their wanderings from Florida to a small town in Washington State. Fighting for identity and self-respect against the unrelenting hostility of a new stepfather, Toby's growing up is at once poignant and comical. His various schemes--running away to Alaska, forging cheeks, and stealing cars--lead eventually to an act of outrageous self-invention that releases him into a new world of possibility.” • Historical Connections: 1950s American life

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