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1980-1989 |
1982 Equal Rights Amendment defeated.
Antinuclear movement protests manufacture of nuclear weapons. AIDS
officially identified in the United States.
1989 Soviet Union collapses; Cold War
ends. Oil tanker Exxon Valdez runs aground in Alaska. |
1980 Toni Cade
Bambara, Medley
1981 Leslie Marmon Silko, Lullaby
1982 Raymond Carver, Cathedral.
Ursula K. Le Guin, Shrödinger's Cat. David Mamet,
Glengarry Glen Ross. Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse than Death
1983 Paule Marshall, Reena.
Toni Morrison, Recitatif
1984 Stephen Dixon, Time to Go
1985 Don DeLillo, White Noise
1986 Denise Chávez, The Last of the Menu Girls.
Louise Erdrich, Fleur
1989 Maxine Hong Kingston,
Tripmaster Monkey. William T. Vollmann, Red Hands |