Kelley, Emma Dunham, 283
Kennedy, John F., 490
Kennedy, Louise, 671
Kenner, Hugh, 744; A Homemade World, 313
Kerouac, Jack, 739; The Dharma Bums, 447; On the Road, 446, 493
Kerr, Jean: Please Don't Eat the Daisies, 507; The Snake Has All the Lines, 507
Kerslake, Susan, Penumbra, 566
Kesey, Ken, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 447- 48, 493
Kessler-Harris, Alice, 389
Khan, Ismkh, 600; The]umbie Bird, 602; The Obeah Man, 602
Kincaid, Jamaica, 604 -5, 653, 669 -70, 670 -72; Annie John, 595, 605, 671; At the Bottom of the River, 671; Lucy, 605, 671, 672; A Small Place, 672
King, Stephen, Misery, 87
King, Thomas, Medicine River, 576
Kingston, Maxine Hong, 406, 462, 463, 521, 522, 524, 528 -29, 533, 653, 669, 788; China Men, 463, 522, 533- 34; Tripmaster Monkey, 463, 522; The Woman Warrior, 463, 522, 533
Kingston, Paul W., The Wages of Writing, 681 -82
Kinsella, Thomas, Shoeless Joe, 581 -82
Kinsey, Alfred C., Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, 546
Kipling, Rudyard, 658; influence of, 263; 'A White Man's Burden,' 249
Kirby, William, The Golden Dog, 562
Kirkland, Caroline, 788
Kirkland, Joseph, Zury, 255
Kitsch, postmodern fiction as, 690 -91
Klein, Marcus, 345, 393
Klinkowitz, Jerome, 448, 732, 736 -37
Knight, Sarah Kemble, The Journal of Madam Knight, 33–34
Kogawa, Joy, 406, 567, 573 -74, 653, 788- 89; Obasan, 574, 575
Kollwitz, Kathe, 178
Kostelanetz, Richard, 686
Kramer, Hilton, 517, 518
Kramer, Larry, Faggots, 549
Krause, Herbert, Wind Without Rain, 441
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Krauze, Ethel, 628 -29
Kreiner, Philip: Contact Prints, 564; Heartlands, 584
Kristeva, Julia, 700
Kroetsch, Robert, 564, 565, 566, 585; Badlands, 580, 582; Gone Indian, 563
Kromer, Tom, Waiting for Nothing, 340 -41
Kruger, Barbara, 516
Krupat, Arnold, 43, 44
Kiinstlerroman, Canadian, 580
Kureishi, Hanif, 653, 659, 661 -65; The Buddha of Suburbia, 663 -65; 'The Rainbow Sign,' 661- 62
Kyk-over-al (literary review), 593
Laberge, Albert, La Scouine (Bitter Bread), 569
Labor movement, 148, 322
Labor unrest, 158, 327
Lacombe, Patrice, La terre paternelIe, 568
Ladies' Home Journal, 371
Ladoo, Harold Sonny, Yesterdays, 575
La Farge, Oliver, Laughing Boy, 409
Lamming, George, 587, 589, 594 -96, 600; The Emigrants, 594, 595; In the Castle of My Skin, 589, 594, 595; Natives of My Person, 594, 595; Of Age and Innocence, 594 The Pleasures of Exile, 595-96; Season of Adventure, 594, 595; Water with Berries, 595, 595
L'Amour, Louis, 440
Land, importance of: in frontier novels, 438; in Western fiction, 441, 446 47, 459 -60
Landon, Brooks, 449
Langer, Elinor, 355
Language: Abish and, 737; Barth and, 730 -31; class differences and, 174 75; colonialism and, 655 -56; dialects, 251, 571; of early American novels, 11; experimental, Stein and, 215; Gass and, 741; Millhauser and, 747; New Critics and, 488; postcolonial, 661; postmodernism and, 700; of realism, 172; and reality, 448, 620 -21; of social types, 191; women's appropriation of, 641 -42
Lapolla, Garibaldi Marto, 398
Larsen, Nella, 411, 420; Quicksand, 421
Larson, Magalia, 568, 691
Late nineteenth century: realism, 160 88; women's status, 269
Late twentieth century: literary marketplace, 679 -96; postmodern fiction, 697 -725
Latin American fiction, 607 -48
Latin American immigrant writers, 406
Laughlin, James, 693
Laurence, Margaret, 584, 789; A Bird in the House, 580; The Diviners, 578; The Stone Angel, 564, 578
Law: of immigration, 381, 406; status of, in Western fiction, 368
Lawrence, D. H.: influence on Le Sueur, 350 -51; The Rainbow, 314; Studies in Classic American Literature, 51
Lea, Tom, 461
Leacock, Stephen, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, 560, 561
League of American Writers, 344
Leal, Luis, 524
Lean, David, A Passage to India (film), 658
Leatherstocking tales, Cooper, 294, 437
Leavis, F. R., The Great Tradition, 488
Leavitt, David, The Lost Language of Cranes, 551
Lecker, Robert, 578
Lederer, William J., The Ugly American, 490
Lee, Ann, 133
Lee, C. Y., The Flower Drum Song, 500
Lee, Dennis, 579
Lee, Eliza Buckminster, Parthenia, 119 -20
Lee, Harper, To Kill a Mockingbird, 490
Lee, Manfred (Ellery Queen), 802
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Lee, Sky, Disappearing Moon Cafe, 574
Left, political, and sexuality of women, 351 See also Communism; Communist Party
Legal status of women, nineteenth century, 65, 142 -43
Le Guin, Ursula, 789; Always Coming Home, 460
Leiber, Fritz, Gather Darkness, 365
Lemelin, Roger, Au pied de la pente douce (The Town Below), 569
Leonard, John, 661
Leprohon, Rosanna, Antoinette de Mirecourt; or, Secret Marrying and Secret Sorrowing, a Canadian Tale,
