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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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A History of American Literature; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Chapter 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; Chapter 2 The Sixties and the Necessities of Change; Theater of the 1960s; African American Writing in the 1960s; 1960s Fiction, Mainstream Markers; Feminism.

Chapter 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; Chapter 4 New Ages and Old; Memoir: Another New Direction; Crime and Detective Fiction, American Style; Theater During the 1980s; Chapter 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; Chapter 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; Chapter 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.

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 centuryCovers drama, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, science fiction, and detective novelsFeatures discussion of American works within the context of such 21st-century issues as globalization, medicine, gender, education, and other topics.