American Canon
Volume 42, Number 3
March-April 2021
Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.
Gina Masucci MacKenzie’s Introduction to Focus: American Canon
Daniel T. O’Hara’s “Revisionary Allegory in Late Bloom”
Duane Niatum’s “A Few Words on the US Literary Canon”
Arnab Dutta Roy’s “The South Asian American Canon”
Dana C. McClain’s “#OKBloomer: Contesting the American Canon”
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