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Title A concise companion to postwar American literature and culture / edited by Josephine G. Hendin.

Imprint Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  810.90054 C748 2004    ---  Available
Description xii, 430 p. ; 24 cm.
Series Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture
Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introducing American Literature and Culture in the Postwar Years / Josephine G. Hendin -- The Fifties and After: An Ambiguous Culture / Frederick R. Karl -- The Beat Generation is Now About Everything / Regina Weinreich -- From Bebop to Hip Hop: American music after 1950 / Perry Meisel -- American Drama in the Postwar Period / John Bell -- Hollywood Dreaming: Postwar American Film / Leonard Quart, Albert Auster -- The Beauty and Destructiveness of War: A Literary Portrait of the Vietnam Conflict / Pat C. Hoy II -- Postmodern Fictions / David Mikics -- Gay and Lesbian Writing in Post World War II America / Mary Jo Bona -- Identity and the Postwar Temper in American Jewish Fiction / Daniel Fuchs -- Fire and Romance: African American Literature Since World War II / Sterling Lecater Bland, Jr. -- Italian/American Literature and Culture / Fred L. Gardaphe -- Irish American Writing: Political Men and Archetypal Women / Robert E. Rhodes -- Emergent Ethnic Literatures: Native American, Hispanic, Asian American / Cyrus R.K. Patell -- "I'll Be Your Mirror, Reflect What You Are": Postmodern Documentation and the Downtown New York Scene from 1975 to the Present / Marvin J. Taylor.
Summary This companion traces the creative energy that surged in new directions in the United States after World War II. Each of the contributors approaches a particular aspect of post-war literature, film, music or drama from his or her own perspective.
Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Literature and the war -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Literature and the war -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Influence -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
United States -- Civilization -- 1945- -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Added Author Hendin, Josephine.
Added Title Postwar American literature and culture
ISBN 0631207090 (alk. paper)
9780631207092 (alk. paper)
1405121807 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781405121804 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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