A Concise Companion to Postwar American Literature and Culture

A Concise Companion to Postwar American Literature and Culture
ISBN-10
0470756381
ISBN-13
9780470756386
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
448
Language
English
Published
2008-04-15
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Author
Josephine Hendin

Description

This Concise Companion is a guide to the creative output of the United States in the postwar period, in its diverse energies, shapes and forms. Embraces diversity, covering Vietnam literature, gay and lesbian literature, American Jewish fiction, Italian American literature, Irish American writing, emergent ethnic literatures, African American writing, jazz, film, drama and more. Shows how different genres and approaches opened up creative possibilities and interacted in the postwar period. Portrays the postwar United States split by differences of wealth and position, by ethnicity and race, and by agendas of left and right, but united in the intensity of its creative drive.

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