A history of American literature : 1950 to the present / Linda Wagner-Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wagner-Martin, Linda.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--21st century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

xv, 393 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons, 2013.

Contents:

1 Locating Contemporary Literature 1

American Poetry During the 1950s 13

A Poems of me Mind and the Body 13

B The Farthest Edge: The Beats and the Confessional School 19

American Theater During the 1950s 25

American Fiction During the 1950s 28

A Fiction and the War 28

B Class and Sexuality in the Novel 32

C The Novel, Jewish and Southern 38

2 The Sixties and the Necessities of Change 47

Theater of the 1960s 53

African American Writing in the 1960s 58

1960s Fiction, Mainstream Markers 69

Feminism 74

3 Conventions and Eruptions 79

Poetry of the Anti-War and Feminist Years 81

Feminist Fictions 90

Postmodern Fictions 101

Science Fiction and Alternative Worlds 112

The New Journalism 123

Theater During the 1970s 129

4 New Ages and Old 139

Memoir: Another New Direction 142

Crime and Detective Fiction, American Style 150

Theater During the 1980s 168

5 The 1980s, Ethnicity and Change 175

Asian American Writing 178

Native American Writing 183

Mexican American Writing (i.e., Latino/Latina) 189

African American Writing 194

Poetry in the 1980s 203

Fiction in the 1980s 214

6 The 1990s and the Sexual 225

Sexual Preferences and Social/Legal Issues 227

Theater of the 1990s 235

The Poem at the Turn into the Twenty-First Century 242

Story at the Turn into the Twenty-First Century 250

Southern Literature at the Turn into the Twenty-First Century 260

7 The Twenty-First Century 277

The Story of 9/11 and Its Aftermath 286

Theater 2000-2010 307

Poetry 2000-2010 311

Memoir and Life-Writing 2000-2010 319

Fiction 2000-2010 326.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781405192323

1405192321

OCLC:

798437869