Concise Companion to Postwar American Literature and Culture
Regular price
€54.99
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
became
Category=DSBH
Category=JBCC
characteristic
companion
concise
contributions
contributors
creative energy
demonstrate
different
directions
diversity
drama
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
new
particular aspect
paths
period
perspective
postwar
postwar american
Product details
- ISBN 9781405121804
- Weight: 595g
- Dimensions: 156 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jun 2004
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
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.
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: A View of American Fiction Since 1945 (1978), and Heartbreakers: Women and Violence in Contemporary Culture and Literature (2004).
