Introduction: Crucial Contingencies and Critical Patriotism -- African American Histories and Hopes: Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition and David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident -- Native American Histories and Hopes: Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine -- Great Depression Histories and Hopes: John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart -- Caribbean American Histories and Hopes: Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker -- AIDS Epidemic Histories and Hopes: Tony Kushner's Angels in America and Alice Hoffman's At Risk -- Refugee Histories and Hopes: Mark Bixler's The Lost Boys of Sudan and Dave Eggers's What Is the What -- Conclusion: Finding the Road to Hope: Cormac McCarthy's The Road.
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