Textbook
A Concise Companion to Postwar American Literature and CultureISBN: 978-1-4051-2180-4
Paperback
448 pages
July 2004, ©2004, Wiley-Blackwell
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- An inspiring guide to the creative output of the United States in the postwar period.
- 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.