Middleman and Other Stories, 676 77; The Tiger's Daughter, 674- 75; Wife, 674, 675
Muller, Arnold, Bram of the Five Corners, 383
Multicultural mass culture, 517 -18
Multinational culture, postmodern, 699
Mumford, Lewis, 360
Munro, Alice: The Beggar Maid, 560; Lives of Girls and Women, 561, 580; Who Do You Think You Are? 560
Munro, George, 291
Munro, Norman, 291
Munsey, Frank, 359
Murder mysteries. See Detective fiction
Murfree, Mary, In the 'Stranger People's' Country, 252
Murray, Anna, 39
Murray, John, 80
Murray, Judith Sargent, 115
Music: popular, mass culture, 517; postmodern, 516
Mystic experiences, Native American accounts, 43 -44
Nabokov, Vladimir, 327, 699, 704 -7, 797; Ada, 699, 708; Lolita, 699, 707, 710; Pale Fire, 699, 702, 707- 9, 710
Naipaul, Shiva, 600, 602; The ChipChip Gatherers, 602; The Fireflies, 602.
Naipaul, V. S., 587 -89, 594, 600, 601 -2; A Bend in the River, 602; The Enigma of Arrival, 595, 601, 602; Guerrillas, 601, 602; A House for Mr. Biswas, 601-2; The Middle Passage, 601; Miguel Street, 601; The Mimic Men, 595, 601, 602; The Mystic Masseur, 601-2; The Suffrage of Elvira, 601-2
Narrative, x- xi; autobiographical, 26 28; Latin American, 611, 625 -26; marketplace for, 695; postmodern voices, 704
Narrative frames, breaking of, 703
Nashoba Community, 820
Nashville Fugitives, 408, 414
Nation, Carry, 236
National Coming Out Day, 552
National consciousness, West Indian, 590
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National identity, 243 -44; African Americans and, 248; Connecticut Yankee and, 257; racism and, 263; regionalism and, 251
Nationalism: Canadian, 566; cultural, West Indian, 592; in dime novels, 294; postmodern, 519; story papers and, 288, 289
National literature, post-Civil War, 241
National mind, Stein's idea, 213
National narrative, technology and, 468
National reconciliation, post-Civil War: Connecticut Yankee and, 257; as fiction theme, 240 -41, 243- 49, 439; regionalism and, 251; Twain and, 245 -46
National traditions, 259
National unity, symbols of, 262
Nationhood, 242 -42
Native American Renaissance, 456 -57
Native Americans, 260 -61, 409; autobiographical writings, early, 43–44; Canadian, 575 -77; Canadian fiction and, 563; captivity narratives and, 31 -32; colonialization and, 30; Eastlake's view, 445; Faulkner and, 427; fiction of, 453 -57; nineteenth century, 268; in Southern states, 412; women authors, 270 -71, 280 -82
Nativism, nineteenth century, 146 -47
Naturalism, 697; economic depression and, 392; historical context, 263; immigrant novels, 394; James and, 200, 202; late nineteenth century, 157 -59, 202- 4; and national identity, 263; in Phelps's work, 226 27; in proletarian fiction, 345; and reform fiction, 225; Western, 438
Nature writers, environmentalists, 459
Naval reform, 149
Negroes. See African Americans
Nelson, Cary, 333
Nelson, Jane, 460
Neobaroque style, Latin American, 612 -13
Neogothic fiction, 327
Neorealism: African American writers, 496; Mailer and, 493; war novels, 491; in Western fiction, 461, 462
Neruda, Pablo, 609
Nettleford, Rex, 656
Neutral territory, for romance, Hawthorne's idea, 75 -76
Nevèrÿon series, Delany, 705
New, W. H., 584
The New Criterion, 517
New Criticism, 330, 488
'New ethnics,' 405 -6
New Harmony Society, 133
Newman, Charles, 690, 699, 734, 739, 742; The Post-Modern Aura, 687, 734- 35
The New Masses, 344, 353
'New Negroes,' 409, 421; Hurston and, 422
Newspapers, and fiction, 50, 203 -4
New-wave literature, Mexican, 631 -32
New World (story paper), 287
New York City: black population, 411; as literary center, 407
The New Yorker, 508
New York Ledger (story paper), 287, 289
New York State, Married Women's Property Act, 143
New York State Temperance Society, 137
New York Times, and Kerouac's On the Road, 446
New York Times Book Review: and Puzo's The Fortunate Pilgrim, 405; and Roth's Call It Sleep, 395
New York Tribune, dime novel advertisements, 293
New York Weekly (story paper), 287, 294, 297
New York Workingman's Party, 148
New York World, 250
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, 656, 668
Nichols, John, 449; American Blood, 450
Nichols, Mary Gove, 137
Nichols, Mary Sargeant, Mary Lyndon, 144
Nickel series, 287, 300, 301 -2
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Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 750
Niggli, Josephina, Mexican Village, 501
Nineteenth Amendment, 269
Nineteenth century, 4–5; book market, 46 -71; captivity narratives, 32; domestic novels, 110 -29; immigration, 380; influence of women, 113 -17, 124 -25; Native American autobiography, 44; publishing, 52 -54; science fiction, 361; sentimental novels, 52; social reform movements, 216; symbolism of machinery, 471
