5 American Literature Diversified
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A History of American Literature Part 5-American Literature Diversified
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Literature Diversified Under New Conditions
Two Halves of a 50-year Period
1945-1960s
The Cold War mentality
The age of anxiety
McCarthysim (the Red Scare)
Civil Rights Movement
The "Beat generation"
The Late 1960s-21st century
Post-colonial
immigrants
information revolution
The Influence of Existentialism
Heideggar
Sartre
Camus
Postmodernism
1. Critical of the systemized modernity
2. In the context of Western Marxism, standing for the cultural logic in post-industrialist society.
3. In its literary and aesthetic function, stronger emphasis on the flexibility and playfulness of literature as “text”.
American Theater: Three Major Playwrights
Eugene O'Neill
The Emperor Jones 琼斯皇
The Hairy Ape 毛猿
Desire under the Elms 榆树下的欲望
Long Day's Journey into Night 长日慢慢将入夜
Tenessee Williams
A streetcar Named Desire 欲望号街车
The Glass Menagerie 玻璃动物园
Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman 推销员之死
The Crucible 熔炉
Major Fiction Writers:1945-1960s
Carrying on the tradition of Harlem Renaissance
Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man
James Baldwin
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Giovanni's Room
Sonny's Blues
The Southern Tradition
Flannery O'Connor
Wise Blood
Good Country People
Eudora Welty
Delta Wedding
Petrified Man
The Jewish Tradition
Saul Bellow
Dangling Man (1944)
The Adventures of Augie March (1953)
Henderson the Rain King (1958)
Seize the Day (1956)
Herzog (1964)
Mr. Sammler’s Planet (1970)
Humboldt’s Gift (1975)
More Die of Heartbreak (1987)
Bernard Malamud
The Assistant
Literary tradition responding to social and political events of the time
J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
Joseph Heller
Catch-22
Black humor
Norman Mailer
The Naked and the Dead
Poetic Tendencies Since 1945
Theodore Roethke
I Knew a Woman
My Papa's Waltz
Elizabeth Bishop
The Fish
Robert Lowell
Waking in the Blue
Sylvia Plath
Daddy
Allen Ginsberg (The Beat Generation)
Howl
Gary Snyder
Riprap & Cold Mountain Poems
Turtle Island
Richard Wilbur
Digging for China
Fictional Inclinations Since the 1960s
The "Postmodern" inclinations
Thomas Pynchon (the concept of "entropy")
Gravity's Rainbow
The realist and modernist inclinations
Joyce Carol Oates
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been
Raymond Carver
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Cathedral
Where I Am Calling From
John Updike
Rabbit, Run (1960)《兔子,跑吧》
Rabbit Redux (1971)《兔子归来》
Rabbit is Rich (1981)《兔子富了》
Rabbit at Rest (1990)《兔子歇了
Contemporary Multi-ethnic Literature and Fiction
African American Fiction
Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye
Song of Solomon
Beloved
Alice Walker
The Color Purple
Asian American Fiction
Maxine Hong Kingston
The Woman Warrior
Amy Tan
The Joy Luck Club
Native American Literature
Natachee Scott Momaday
The Way to Rainy Mountain
Latino/Latina Fiction
Sandra Cisneros
The House on the Mango Street
Diasporic Writers
Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita
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