The Columbia History of the American Novel569 Labor movement, 148, 322 Labor unrest, 158, 327 Lacombe, Patrice, La terre paternelIe, 568 Ladies' Home Journal, 371 Ladoo, Harold Sonny, Yesterdays, 575 La Farge, Oliver, Laughing Boy, 409 Lamming, George, 587, 589, 594 -96, 600; The Emigrants, 594, 595; In the Castle of My Skin, 589, 594, 595; Natives of My Person, 594, 595; Of Age and Innocence, 594 The Pleasures of Exile, 595-96; Season of Adventure, 594, 595; Water with Berries, 595, 595 L'Amour, Louis, 440 Land, importance of: in frontier novels, 438; in Western fiction, 441, 446 47, 459 -60 Landon, Brooks, 449 Langer, Elinor, 355 Language: Abish and, 737; Barth and, 730 -31; class differences and, 174 75; colonialism and, 655 -56; dialects, 251, 571; of early American novels, 11; experimental, Stein and, 215; Gass and, 741; Millhauser and, 747; New Critics and, 488; postcolonial, 661; postmodernism and, 700; of realism, 172; and reality, 448, 620 -21; of social types, 191; women's appropriation of, 641 -42 Lapolla, Garibaldi Marto, 398 Larsen, Nella, ...»