A concise companion to postwar American literature and culture
by Josephine Hendin
Blackwell Concise Companions To Literature And Culture
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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 show more period.; Portrays the postwar United States split by differences of wealth and position, by ethnicity and rac show lessTags
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Josephine Hendin is Professor of English at New York University. She is the author of Vulnerable People: A View of American Fiction Since 1945, Heart-Breakers: Women, and Violence in American Culture and Literature, and editor of the The Concise Companion to Postwar American Literature and Culture. Her novel, The Right Thing to Do won an American show more Book Award. Her literary essays have appeared in The New Republic, Harper's Magazine, American Literary History and other publications. show less
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
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- 810.9 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American literature in English History and criticism of American literature
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- PS225 .C66 — Language and Literature American literature American literature By period 20th century
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