A history of American literature : 1950 to the present /
- Malden, MA : Wiley Blackwell, 2013.
- xv, 393p.
- (Wiley-Blackwell Histories of American literature) .
1. Locating Contemporary Literature:- American Poetry During the 1950s; A. Poems of the Mind and the Body; B. The Farthest Edge: The Beats and the Confessional School; American Theater During the 1950s; American Fiction During the 1950s; A. Fiction and the War; B. Class and Sexuality in the Novel; C. The Novel, Jewish and Southern
2. The Sixties and the Necessities of Change:- Theater of the 1960s; African American Writing in the 1960s; 1960s Fiction, Mainstream Markers; Feminism
3. Conventions and EruptionsPoetry of the Anti-War and Feminist Years:- Feminist Fictions; Postmodern Fictions; Science Fiction and Alternative Worlds; The New Journalism; Theater During the 1970s
4. New Ages and Old:- Memoir: Another New Direction; Crime and Detective Fiction, American Style; Theater During the 1980s
5. The 1980s, Ethnicity and Change:- Asian American Writing; Native American Writing; Mexican American Writing (i.e., Latino/Latina); African American Writing; Poetry in the 1980s; Fiction in the 1980s
6. The 1990s and the Sexual. Sexual Preferences and Social/Legal IssuesTheater of the 1990s:- The Poem at the Turn into the Twenty-First Century; Story at the Turn into the Twenty-First Century; Southern Literature at the Turn into the Twenty-First Century
7. The Twenty-First Century:- The Story of 9/11 and Its Aftermath; Theater 2000-2010; Poetry 2000-2010; Memoir and Life-Writing 2000-2010; Fiction 2000-2010; References; Index.
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American Literature, 20th Century--History and Criticism American Literature, 21th Century Literary Criticism