Cambridge Companion to American Fiction after 1945 1st Edition by John N Duvall 9781107484382 1107484383

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• ISBN 10: 1107484383
• ISBN 13: 9781107484382
• Author: John N Duvall

Each generation revises literary history and this is nowhere more evident than in the post-Second World War period. This 2011 Companion offers a comprehensive, authoritative and accessible overview of the diversity of American fiction since the Second World War. Essays by nineteen distinguished scholars provide critical insights into the significant genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors during a period of enormous American global political and cultural power. This power is overshadowed, nevertheless, by national anxieties growing out of events ranging from the Civil Rights Movement to the rise of feminism; from the Cold War and its fear of Communism and nuclear warfare to the Age of Terror and its different yet related fears of the ‘Other’. American fiction since 1945 has faithfully chronicled these anxieties. An essential reference guide, this Companion provides a chronology of the period, as well as guides to further reading.

Table contents:

Part I Poetics and Genres
1 Postmodern metafiction
2 Contemporary realism
3 New journalism and the nonfiction novel
4 Science fiction
5 The short story
Part II Historical and Cultural Contexts
6 African American fiction
7 American Indian fiction
8 Multiethnicities: Latino/a and Asian American fiction
9 American Jewish fiction
10 Feminist fiction
11 Southern fiction
12 Fiction and the Cold War
13 Fiction and 9/11
Part III Major Authors
14 Ralph Ellison
15 Flannery O’Connor
16 Thomas Pynchon
17 Toni Morrison
18 Don DeLillo

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