A Concise Companion to Postwar American Literature and Culture
Book Details
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
ISBN / ASIN1405121807
ISBN-139781405121804
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank732,411
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
This ConciseCompanion is a guide to the creative output of the United States in the postwar period, in its diverse energies, shapes and forms.
- 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.
