Acknowledgments ixIntroduction iChapter One The Shocks of Transplantation World’s End * Continental Drift * How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents * The Joy Luck Club * China Men * The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love * The Xenogenesis Trilogy * JasmineChapter Two Mythical Innocence Dandelion Wine * The Bluest Eye * Mama Day * Continental Drift * Original Sins * So the Wind Won’t Blow It All Away * Deadeye Dick * The Things They Carried * 1968: A Novel * Invisible Man * The Sot-Weed FactorChapter Three Yearning for Lost Civilization Fools Crow * Mr.Sammler’s Planet * The Dean’s December * Love in the Ruins * Snow White * The Free-Lance Pallbearers * Flight to CanadaChapter Four Seeking Spiritual Reality House Made of Dawn * Rabbit, Run * Rabbit Redux * Rabbit Is Rich * Rabbit at Rest * Bless Me, Ultima * Legs * Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game * Ironweed * An American Dream * Gravity’s RainbowChapter Five The Fragility of Democracy The Crying of Lot 49 * The Book of Daniel * Libra " The Terrible Twos * The Terrible Threes * The Turner Diaries * Ecotopia * Ecotopia Emerging * Cities of the Red Night * The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress * VinelandChapter Six Demonic Visions The Free—Lance Pallbearers * The Public Burning * One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest * Woman on the Edge of Time * Blood and Guts in High School * American Psycho * Why Are We in Vietnam? * Mercy * Bearheart：The Heirship Chronicles* Almanac of the DeadChapter Seven Liberating the Land of Freedom Sombrero Fallout： A Japanese Novel * Dhalgren * Tripmaster Monkey： His Fake Book * Griever： An American Monkey King in China * Always Coming Home * The Dispossessed * Woman on the Edge of Time * He, She and It * The Fifth Sacred ThingChapter Eight Small Is Beautiful 240 Sula * Hiding Place * Damballah * Sent for You Yesterday * Tracks * Love Medicine * Ceremony * The Beans of Egypt, Maine * Letourneau’s Used Auto Parts * Merry Men * Slapstick; or, Lonesome No More! * Islands in the NetChapter Nine The Failure of the Dream in Fiction Notes Bibliography Index
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