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1980-1989

Political and Social History Literature
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