![]() When most of Erickson's books were out of print in English, you were able to find his translation in most of the large bookstores in Japan. Some Japanese who consider themselves avid fans of American literature recognize Dybek, while I assume that very few students in American literary history in the States know him. All of the students mentioned at least one contemporary writer only about half of them knew the canonical authors. ![]() ![]() Yet, there also were such names as Paul Auster, John Irving, Tim O'Brien, Raymond Carver, Richard Powers, Steve Erickson, Steven Millhouser, Stuart Dybek. There certainly were Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Since I was teaching the subject for the first time, in order to check the students' general knowledge, I asked them to pick out the names of American authors they know. I am a teacher of English and American Literature at a university in Japan, and last term I had a class on American Literary History for the undergraduate. ![]()
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