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A Concise Companion to Postwar American Literature and Culture
Josephine Hendin
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Description for A Concise Companion to Postwar American Literature and Culture
Paperback. * An inspiring guide to the creative output of the United States in the postwar period. * Embraces diversity, covering Vietnam literature, gay and lesbian literature, American Jewish fiction, Italian American literature, Irish American writing, emergent ethnic literatures, African American writing, jazz, film, drama and more. Editor(s): Hendin, Josephine. Series: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 608.
This Concise Companion is a guide to the creative output of the United States in the postwar period, in its diverse energies, shapes and forms.
This Concise Companion is a guide to the creative output of the United States in the postwar period, in its diverse energies, shapes and forms.
- Embraces diversity, covering Vietnam literature, gay and lesbian literature, American Jewish fiction, Italian American literature, Irish American writing, emergent ethnic literatures, African American writing, jazz, film, drama and more.
- Shows how different genres and approaches opened up creative possibilities and interacted in the postwar period.
- Portrays the postwar United States split by differences of wealth and position, by ethnicity and race, and by agendas of left and right, but united in the intensity of its creative drive.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Series
Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781405121804
SKU
V9781405121804
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Ref
99-50
About Josephine Hendin
Josephine G. Hendin is Professor of English and Tiro A. Segno Professor of Italian American Studies at New York University. Her novel The Right Thing to Do won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 1988–9 and was reprinted by the Feminist Press in 1999. Her critical works include The World of Flannery O'Connor (1970), Vulnerable People: ... Read more
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