A concise companion to postwar American literature and culture

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
Group Author: Hendin, Josephine.
Published:
Literature type: Electronic eBook
Language: English
Series: Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture
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Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470756430
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xii, 430 pages).
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780470756430
0470756438
0631207090
9780631207092
1405121807
9781405121804
9781405164948
1405164948
9780470756386
0470756381
Index Number: PS225
CLC: I712.065-62
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 and 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. Gardaphé -- 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.