A Concise Companion to Postwar American Literature and Culture

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Josephine Hendin
John Wiley & Sons, 15 באפר׳ 2008 - 448 עמודים
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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1 Introducing American Literature and Culture in the Postwar Years
1
2 The Fifties and After An Ambiguous Culture
20
3 The Beat Generation is Now About Everything
72
4 From Bebop to Hip Hop American Music After 1950
95
5 American Drama in the Postwar Period
110
6 Hollywood Dreaming Postwar American Film
149
7 The Beauty and Destructiveness of War A Literary Portrait of the Vietnam Conflict
168
8 Postmodern Fictions
187
10 Identity and the Postwar Temper in American Jewish Fiction
238
11 Fire and Romance African American Literature Since World War II
263
12 Italian American Literature and Culture
299
13 Irish American Writing Political Men and Archetypal Women
323
14 Emergent Ethnic Literatures Native American Hispanic Asian American
351
15 Ill Be Your Mirror Reflect What You Are Postmodern Documentation and the Downtown New York Scene from 1975 to the Present
383
Index
400
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9 Gay and Lesbian Writing in PostWorld War II America
210

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Josephine G. Hendin is Professor of English and Tiro A. Segno Professor of Italian American Studies at New York University. Her novel The Right Thing to Do won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 1988–9 and was reprinted by the Feminist Press in 1999. Her critical works include The World of Flannery O'Connor (1970), Vulnerable People: A View of American Fiction Since 1945 (1978), and Heartbreakers: Women and Violence in Contemporary Culture and Literature (2004).

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