Describes the emergence of Native American writers and the problems they face with their achievement. Apendixes list publishers of native American poetry and contemporary poets. (CRH)

Examines psychological themes in "Passing," by Nella Larsen, a novelist who wrote about the lives of the Black bourgeoisie. Discusses Larsen's work in the context of American literary tradition. (GC)

Part of Lexicography and Dialect Geography, Festgabe for Hans Kurath''. (DD)

Discusses building language understandings through the multiple channels of visual, auditory, and kinesthetic, with special emphasis on the use of syntactic blocks. (GB)

Examination of the characters of school administrators in British and American literature, supplemented by some biographical works, leads to the conclusion that school administrators are portrayed as villainous ogres, incompetent clods, or kindly altruists in the bulk of the earlier works, and are largely absent from the modern novel. (SK)

Traces the different social, ethnic, and racial connotations of the word "mulatto" since the Spanish colonization of the Americas. Stresses the fact that in Spanish America, the word more often referred to individuals of Black and American Indian admixture than to those of Black and White (Spanish) admixture. (GC)

Narrates Quebec women's struggle for liberty of expression, liberty before the laws and liberty in their lives, stressing the differences between French and American feminist movements. Introduces a bibliography of Canadian publications on the status of women including: bibliographical sources, general studies, documents, resources, and…

Reflections on the annual conference of the Canadian Council of Teachers of English (CCTE) and the development of language study in Canadian education are given. (HTH)

Discussion of English language journals of librarianship of most interest to North Americans includes publications from the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa, and West Africa, as well as from UNESCO, IFLA, and Scandinavia. Some indexes, other secondary publications, and monographs are also discussed. (RAA)

Briefly explores the usage patterns of American English words, terms, or expressions such as "y'all" and other second plural pronouns, English conditionals, "greasy' by East-Central Pennsylvanians, who or whom, the genderless "-person" suffix, and Russianisms. (CB)

In an investigation of the use of the word "hey" in pseudoquotations, invented quotations, in current English communication, tokens (n=26) were collected from public and commercial broadcasts and miscellaneous readings. A speaker uses quote formula + hey + pseudoquotation to dramatize and give emphasis to an important point. (72…

Illustrates how, in far too many ways, biographies of Christopher Columbus for young children have not changed much since the fourth centennial of Columbus' landfall. Asserts that the books are predominantly white, are addressed to whites, and exclude women. (PRA)

Dime novels, a form of American/Canadian subliterature that gained popularity from 1840 to 1910, entertained with fast-paced action, high adventure, and ethically uplifting stories emphasizing the triumph of good over evil. Students can approach North American history creatively and practically by locating, collecting, and organizing information…

Describes an exhibition at the Library of Congress called "From Sea to Shining Sea: An American Sampler" that contains a sampling of children's books that are representative of American life and show how children's literature has evolved over the centuries. Illustrations from several of the books are included. (LRW)