2130_American Lit Module 3 _Introduction

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American Literature 1945 to the Present

An Introduction

World War II and Its Aftermath

The Civil Rights Movement

Voices of the Cultural Revolution

• “The Great American Novel”

• Realism and “The Death of the Novel”

• Minimalism

• Metafiction

Fiction and the Novel

• Short lyric meditation

• The Beat poets

• Confessional poetry

• Deconstruction and language poetry

Poetry

• African Americans and the Black Arts Movement

• Southern writers

• Jewish American writers

• The Native American Renaissance

• Asian American writers

• Latino/Latina writers

Diversifying the Field

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An Introduction

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