A Concise Companion to Postwar American Literature and Culture

1. Introducing American Literature and Culture in the Postwar Years: Josephine G. Hendin.

2. The Fifties and After: An Ambiguous Culture: Frederick R. Karl.

3. The Beat Generation is Now About Everything : Regina Weinreich.

4. From Bebop to Hip Hop: American Music After 1950: Perry Meisel.

5. American Drama in the Postwar Period: John Bell.

6. Hollywood Dreaming: Postwar American Film: Leonard Quart, Albert Auster.

7. The Beauty and Destructiveness of War: A Literary Portrait of the Vietnam Conflict: Pat C. Hoy II.

8. Postmodern Fictions: David Mikics.

9. Gay and Lesbian Writing in Post World War II America : Mary Jo Bona.

10. Identity and the Postwar Temper in American Jewish Fiction: Daniel Fuchs.

11. Fire and Romance: African American Literature Since World War II: Sterling Lecater Bland, Jr.

12. Italian/American Literature and Culture: Fred L. Gardaphé.

13. Irish American Writing: Political Men and Archetypal Women: Robert E. Rhodes and Patricia Monaghan.

14. Emergent Ethnic Literatures: Native American, Hispanic, Asian American: Cyrus R. K. Patell.

15. 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.

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