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" A history of American literature : "
Linda Wagner-Martin.
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BL
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664452
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| Main Entry
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Wagner-Martin, Linda.
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A history of American literature : : 1950 to the present /\ Linda Wagner-Martin.
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| Publication Statement
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Chichester, West Sussex :Malden, MA :: John Wiley & Sons,, 2013.
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xv, 393 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm.
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9781405192323 (cloth)
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: 1405192321 (cloth)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-364) and index.
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| Contents
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Locating Contemporary Literature. American Poetry During the 1950s ; Poems of the Mind and the Body ; The Farthest Edge: The Beats and the Confessional School ; American Theater During the 1950s ; American Fiction During the 1950s ; Fiction and the War ; Class and Sexuality in the Novel ; The Novel, Jewish and Southern. -- The Sixties and the Necessities of Change. Theater of the 1960s ; African American Writing in the 1960s ; 1960s Fiction, Mainstream Markers ; Feminism. -- Conventions and Eruptions. Poetry of the Anti-War and Feminist Years ; Feminist Fictions ; Postmodern Fictions ; Science Fiction and Alternative Worlds ; The New Journalism ; Theater During the 1970s. -- New Ages and Old. Memoir: Another New Direction ; Crime and Detective Fiction, American Style ;Theater During the 1980s. -- 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. -- The 1990s and the Sexual. Sexual Preferences and Social/Legal Issues ; Theater 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. -- 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.
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"The History of American Literature from 1950 to the Present offers a comprehensive analysis of the wide range of literary works that extends into the 21st century. It covers drama, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, science fiction, and detective novels. This book features discussion of American works within the context of such 21st-century issues as globalization, medicine, gender, education, and other topics."--Publisher's website.
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American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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American literature-- 21st century-- History and criticism.
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PS225.W34 2013
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