A new section titled "Into the Future" contains a discussion of the best young writers of recent years. A concise, engaging guide to American contemporary literature, this volume provides information on 21st-century writers; the 1950s, '60s, and beyond; contemporary American poetry; and the postmodern movement.
Topics include:
- Post-World War II and Vietnam War literature
- New Journalism
- Beat literature and existentialism
- The rise of ethnic and minority literature
- The civil rights movement
- Postmodernism
- Confessional poetry and poetry of witness
- Millennial voices in fiction
- And more.
Writers covered include:
- Raymond Carver
- Sandra Cisneros
- Ralph Ellison
- Robert Frost
- Norman Mailer
- N. Scott Momaday
- Toni Morrison
- Sylvia Plath
- Thomas Pynchon
- Adrienne Rich
- J.D. Salinger
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Tom Wolfe
- And many others.
Specifications
Full-color illustrations. Appendixes. Glossaries. Cross-references. Further reading. Chronology. Sidebars. Index.
