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Prose Writing 1940–1990

Series The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume 7

Edited by Sacvan Bercovitch

Publication Date 1999

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521497329

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521497329

Overview

Volume VII of the Cambridge History of American Literature examines a broad range of American literature of the past half-century, revealing complex relations to changes in society. Christopher Bigsby discusses American dramatists from Tennessee Williams to August Wilson, showing how innovations in theatre anticipated a world of emerging countercultures and provided America with an alternative view of contemporary life. Morris Dickstein describes the condition of rebellion in fiction from 1940 to 1970, linking writers as diverse as James Baldwin and John Updike. John Burt examines writers of the American South, describing the tensions between modernization and continued entanglements with the past. Wendy Steiner examines the postmodern fictions since 1970, and shows how the questioning of artistic assumptions has broadened the canon of American literature. Finally, Cyrus Patell highlights the voices of Native American, Asian American, Chicano, gay and lesbian writers, often marginalized but here discussed within and against a broad set of national traditions.

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction

The Drama, 1940—1990

Fiction and Society, 1940–1970

After the Southern Renascence

Postmodern Fictions, 1960–1990

Emergent Literatures

Chronology, 1940–1990
by
Jonathan Fortescue

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