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Writing America: Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee (A Reader's Companion) 9780813576008
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W r it ing A mer ic a
Other Books by Shelley Fisher Fishkin Author From Fact to Fiction: Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America Was Huck Black? Mark Twain and African-American Voices Lighting Out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture Feminist Engagements: Forays into American Literature and Culture
Editor The Oxford Mark Twain, 29 volumes A Historical Guide to Mark Twain “Is He Dead?” A Comedy in Three Acts by Mark Twain The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Work Mark Twain’s Book of Animals
Coeditor Listening to Silences: New Essays in Feminist Criticism People of the Book: Thirty Scholars Reflect on Their Jewish Identity Race: The History of an Idea in America Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America “The Sport of the Gods” and Other Essential Writings by Paul Laurence Dunbar Anthology of American Literature Concise Anthology of American Literature
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Before I come to Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself, I begin this long overdue blog-essay in the parking lot of my eleven-year-old grandson’s elementary school, across the river in Kentucky where I had just witnessed the first couple of rounds of his academic-bowl team’s quick-response rounds. As I turned on the radio for my return trip to Indiana’s southern shore, switching from the opera on my regular NPR station to a neighboring one playing folk music, I was pleased to recognize the strains of an old Woody Guthrie song called “Deportee.”
Another song about our immigrant nation immediately followed. All of which led me, no doubt, to reflect on the U. S. Congress’s still-unfolding saga (as of this writing) of holding hostage the Homeland Security budget in order to be seen determinedly and heroically fighting President Obama’s executive actions on immigration – executive actions, by the way, that are not significantly different than executive actions on immigration taken earlier by Presidents Reagan and both George H. W. and George W. Bush; and only necessary, on this occasion, because of Congress’s inability or refusal to pass its own more extensive and permanent plan.
Personally, whatever differences I may have with the President on th