Concise Companion to Postwar American Literature and Culture (eBook)
448 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-0-470-75638-6 (ISBN)
- 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.
Josephine G. Hendin is Professor of English and Tiro A. Segno Professor of Italian American Studies at New York University. Her novel The Right Thing to Do won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 1988-9 and was reprinted by the Feminist Press in 1999. Her critical works include The World of Flannery O'Connor (1970), Vulnerable People: A View of American Fiction Since 1945 (1978), and Heartbreakers: Women and Violence in Contemporary Culture and Literature (2004).
This Concise Companion 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.
Josephine G. Hendin is Professor of English and Tiro A. Segno Professor of Italian American Studies at New York University. Her novel The Right Thing to Do won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 1988-9 and was reprinted by the Feminist Press in 1999. Her critical works include The World of Flannery O'Connor (1970), Vulnerable People: A View of American Fiction Since 1945 (1978), and Heartbreakers: Women and Violence in Contemporary Culture and Literature (2004).
Notes on Contributors.
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.
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.4.2008 |
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Reihe/Serie | Concise Companions to Literature and Culture |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Literatur |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften | |
Schlagworte | 20th Century & Contemporary American Literature • Amerikanische Literatur / 20. Jhd. u. zeitgenössische Werke • Amerikanische Literatur / 20. Jhd. u. zeitgenössische Werke • Literary & Cultural Theory • Literature • Literatur- u. Kulturtheorie • Literaturwissenschaft |
ISBN-10 | 0-470-75638-1 / 0470756381 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-470-75638-6 / 9780470756386 |
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