The fourth edition brings readers new full length works, including Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Amiri Baraka's Dutchman, and new sections on the Beat Movement and Vietnam conflict writing. Lesser-known authors continue to appear alongside canonical writers. New authors in the contemporary section include Dorothy Allison, Sherman Alexie, Jack Keroouac, Frank Chin, Jessica agedorn, Mario Suarez, Richard Rodrigues, Lawson Fusao Inada, Yusef Komurnyakan, James Merrill, Kimiko Hahn, and Karen Tei Yamashita.

Product Description: Unrivaled diversity and teachability have made The Heath Anthology a best-selling text. In presenting a more inclusive canon of American literature, The Heath Anthology changed the way American literature is taught. The Sixth Edition continues to balance the traditional, leading names in American literature with lesser-known writers and have built upon the anthology's other strengths: its apparatus and its ancillaries...read more

Product Description: Set in the American Deep South, each of the powerful novellas collected here concerns an aspect of the lives of black people in the post-slavery era, exploring their resistance to white racism and oppression. Originally published in 1938, Uncle Tom's Children was the first book from Richard Wright, who would continue on to worldwide fame as the author of numerous works, most notably the acclaimed novel Native Son and his autobiography, Black Boy...read more

Product Description: Jervey Tervalon's novel about young people in South Central Los Angeles grows out of his experience teaching in a high school there and his pain at the death of one of his favorite students.