The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction after 1945 1st edition by John Duvall ISBN 1107484383 9781107484382

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ISBN 10:  1107484383
ISBN 13: 9781107484382
Author:  John 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.

The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction after 1945 1st Table of contents:

Introduction: A story of the stories of American fiction after 1945

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

Conclusion: Whither American fiction?

Index

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