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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.

A Concise Companion to Postwar American Literature and Culture

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 10/06/2004
    ISBN13: 9781405121804, 978-1405121804
    ISBN10: 1405121807

    Number of Pages: 448

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

    Description

    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.

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