Let’s Talk About It Themes by Subject

African American Studies
Long Gone: The Literature and Culture of African American Migration The Work of Freedom: Individual and Communal

American Indian Studies
Seeds of Change: The Encounter That Transformed the World
Sovereign Worlds: Native Peoples Reclaim Their Lives and Heritage
Exploring the West … Whose West?

Arthurian Fantasy
The Many Realms of King Arthur

Careers and Employment
Making a Living, Making a Life: Work and Its Rewards in a Changing America

Children’s Literature
Not for Children Only: Children’s Classics for Adults

Chinese Americans
Being Ethnic, Becoming American: Struggles, Successes, Symbols

Citizenship—Rights and Obligations
Individual Rights and Community in America

Civil War—United States (1861–1865)
Making Sense of the American Civil War
Rebirth of a Nation: Nationalism and the Civil War

Coming of Age
A Mind of Her Own: Fathers and Daughters in a Changing World

Cuban Americans
One Vision, Many Voices: Latino Literature in the U.S.

Cultural Myths
What America Reads: Myth Making in Popular Fiction

Death and Dying
The End of Life: Conversations on Death and Dying for Contemporary Americans
Love and Forgiveness in the Light of Death

Epic Fiction
New American Worlds: Writing the Hemisphere
The Many Realms of King Arthur
What America Reads: Myth Making in Popular Fiction

Ethnic Groups—Experience in America
Long Gone: The Literature and Culture of African American Migration
One Vision, Many Voices: Latino Literature in the U.S.
Sovereign Worlds: Native Peoples Reclaim Their Lives and Heritage

Family and Friendship
Between Two Worlds: Stories of Estrangement and Homecoming
Family: The Way We Were, The Way We Are: Seasons in the Contemporary American Family

Fathers and Daughters
A Mind of Her Own: Fathers and Daughters in a Changing World

Forgiveness
Love and Forgiveness in the Light of Death
Love and Forgiveness in the Presence of the Enemy
Love, Forgiveness, and Wisdom

Home and Place
Places in the Heart

Illusion and Reality
Demons, Golems, and Dybbuks: Monsters of the Jewish Imagination

Immigration and Emigration
Between Two Worlds: Stories of Estrangement and Homecoming
One Vision, Many Voices: Latino Literature in the U.S.

Individualism
Individual Rights and Community in America

Japanese Literature
Contemporary Japanese Literature

Jewish Literature
A Mind of Her Own: Fathers and Daughters in a Changing World
Being Ethnic, Becoming American: Struggles, Successes, Symbols
Between Two Worlds: Stories of Estrangement and Homecoming
Demons, Golems, and Dybbuks: Monsters of the Jewish Imagination
Your Heart’s Desire: Sex and Love in Jewish Literature

Latinos/Latinas
Being Ethnic, Becoming American: Struggles, Successes, Symbols
One Vision, Many Voices: Latino Literature in the U.S.

Memoirs
A Mind of Her Own: Fathers and Daughters in a Changing World
Being Ethnic, Becoming American: Struggles, Successes, Symbols
Between Two Worlds: Stories of Estrangement and Homecoming
Family: The Way We Were, The Way We Are: Seasons in the Contemporary American Family
Isabella’s Sisters: Women Creating Worlds
The Journey Inward: Women’s Autobiography

Mexican Americans
One Vision, Many Voices: Latino Literature in the U.S.

Myths, Legends and Fables
Not for Children Only: Children’s Classics for Adults

Native American Studies
Seeds of Change: The Encounter That Transformed the World
Sovereign Worlds: Native Peoples Reclaim Their Lives and Heritage
Exploring the West … Whose West? Objects of Art

Opportunity in America
Land of Opportunity

Puerto Ricans
Being Ethnic, Becoming American: Struggles, Successes, Symbols
One Vision, Many Voices: Latino Literature in the U.S.

Railways in America
Making Tracks

Romantic Love
Destruction or Redemption: Images of Romantic Love
Your Heart’s Desire: Sex and Love in Jewish Literature

Tradition and Change
Contemporary Japanese Literature
Family: The Way We Were, The Way We Are: Seasons in the Contemporary American Family

Utopias/Dystopias
End of the World or World Without End: Readings for the Millennium

Western Frontier
Exploring the West … Whose West?

Women’s Studies
Isabella’s Sisters: Women Creating Worlds
The Journey Inward: Women’s Autobiography

Work Life—Quality of
Making a Living, Making a Life: Work and Its Rewards in a Changing America