African American histories and hopes: Charles Chesnut's The Marrow of tradiotion 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 Grape 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 -- Finding the road to hope: Cormac McCarthy's The Road

1. American literature -- History and criticism
2. Literature and history -- United States
3. History in literature
4. Hope in literature