| Description |
1 online resource (775 pages) |
| Contents |
The Drama, 1940--1990 / Christopher Bigsby -- Introduction -- Tennessee Williams -- Arthur Miller -- Edward Albee -- Sam Shepard -- David Mamet -- Changing America: A Changing Drama? -- Fiction and Society, 1940-1970 / Morris Dickstein -- War and the Novel: From World War II to Vietnam -- The New Fiction: From the Home Front to the 1950s -- On and Off the Road: The Outsider as Young Rebel -- Apocalypse Now: A Literature of Extremes -- After the Southern Renascence / John Burt -- Introduction -- Robert Penn Warren -- Carson McCullers -- Flannery O'Connor -- Eudora Welty -- Novels of Race and Class -- Novels of Slavery and Reconstruction -- Walker Percy -- Reynolds Price -- Peter Taylor -- Postmodern Fictions, 1960-1990 / Wendy Steiner -- Rethinking Postmodernism -- Fables of the Fetish -- The End of Traditionalism -- Women's Fiction: The Rewriting of History -- Conclusion -- Emergent Literatures / Cyrus R.K. Patell -- From Marginal to Emergent -- Comparative Racism and the Logic of Naturalization -- Nisei Sons and Daughters -- Legacies of the Sixties -- Refusing to Go Straight -- Beyond Hybridity |
| Summary |
"Volume 7 examines a broad range of American literature of the past half century, revealing complex relations to changes in society. Christopher Bigsby discusses American dramatists from Tennessee Williams to August Wilson. Morris Dickstein describes the condition of rebellion in fiction from 1940 to 1970. John Burt discusses the writers of the American South. Wendy Steiner examines postmodern fictions since 1970. Finally, Cyrus Patell highlights the voices of Native American, Asian American, Chicano, gay and lesbian writers." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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American literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bercovitch, Sacvan
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| ISBN |
9781139053679 |
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1139053671 |
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9781139053679 |
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