A concise companion to postwar American literature and culture / edited by Josephine G. Hendin.

Contributor Hendin, Josephine.

Imprint:Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.

Descriptionxii, 430 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Introducing American Literature and Culture in the Postwar Years / Josephine G. Hendin. - The Fifties and After: An Ambiguous Culture / Frederick R. Karl. - The Beat Generation is Now About Everything / Regina Weinreich. - Jazz Myth, Jazz Reality / Perry Meisel. - American Drama in the Postwar Period / John Bell. - Hollywood Dreaming: Postwar American Film / Leonard Quart, Albert Auster. - The Beauty and Destructiveness of War: A Literary Portrait of the Vietnam Conflict / Pat C. Hoy II. - Postmodern Fictions / David Mikics. - Gay and Lesbian Writing in Post World War II America / Mary Jo Bona. - Identity and the Postwar Temper in American Jewish Fiction / Daniel Fuchs. - Fire and Romance: African American Literature Since World War II / Sterling Lecater Bland, Jr. - Italian/American Literature and Culture / Fred L. Gardaph. - Irish American Writing: Political Men and Archetypal Women: "Polytics Ain't Bean Bag": The Twentieth Century Irish-American Political Novel" / Robert E. Rhodes. - "Grandmothers and Rebel Lovers: Archetypes in Irish-American Women's Poetry" / Patricia Monaghan. - Emergent Ethnic Literatures: Native American, Hispanic, Asian American / Cyrus R. K. Patell. - "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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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