Linda Wagner-Martin

A History of American Literature (eBook, ePUB)

1950 to the Present

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE 1950 TO THE PRESENT Featuring works from notable authors as varied as Salinger and the Beats to Vonnegut, Capote, Morrison, Rich, Walker, Eggers, and DeLillo, A History of American Literature: 1950 to the Present offers a comprehensive analysis of the wide range of literary works produced in the United States over the last six decades and a fascinating survey of the dramatic changes during America's transition from the innocence of the fifties to the harsh realities of the first decade of the new millennium. Author Linda Wagner-Martin - a highly acclaimed authority on all facets of modern American literature - covers major works of drama, poetry, fiction, non- fiction, memoirs, and popular genres such as science fiction and detective novels. Viewing works produced during this fertile literary period from a wide-ranging perspective, Wagner-Martin considers literature in relation to such issues as the politics of civil rights, feminism, sexual preferences, and race- and gender-based marketing. She also places a special emphasis on works produced during the twenty-first century, and writings influenced by recent historic events such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Hurricane Katrina, and the global financial crisis. With its careful balance of scholarly precision and accessibility, A History of American Literature: 1950 to the Present provides readers of all levels with rich and revealing insights into the diversity of literary forms and influences that characterize postmodern America. "A monumental distillation of an enormous range of material, Wagner-Martin's rich book should be required reading for anyone grappling with making sense of the prolific, broad-spectrum, and diverse writing in the US since 1950." Thadious M. Davis, University of Pennsylvania "Linda Wagner-Martin's history impressively and judiciously surveys all fields of American writing over the past sixty years, taking full account of significant cultural and historical contexts and the major critical commentaries that have helped shape our understanding of developments in the second half of the last century and the dozen years following the millennium. Balanced, informative, and always highly readable there is much here for general readers, students, and specialists alike." Christopher MacGowan, the College of William and Mary

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118329160
• Artikelnr.: 37345676

Autorenporträt

Linda Wagner-Martin is Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. She is the recipient of Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Bunting Institute, and other fellowships, as well as holding the Hubbell Medal for American Literature. She writes widely on twentieth-century American literature, biography, women's writing, and pedagogy. Her publications include "Favored Strangers": Gertrude Stein and Her Family (1995), The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States and its anthology(1995), Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life (1999/2003), Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (2004), Emily Dickinson, A Literary Life (2013) Barbara Kingsolver's World: Nature, Art and the 21st Century (2014) and Toni Morrison and the Maternal, from the Bluest Eye to Home, 2014.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations ix Preface xi 1 Locating Contemporary Literature 1 American
Poetry During the 1950s 13 A. Poems of the Mind and the Body 13 B. The
Farthest Edge: The Beats and the Confessional School 19 American Theater
During the 1950s 25 American Fiction During the 1950s 28 A. Fiction and the
War 28 B. Class and Sexuality in the Novel 32 C. The Novel, Jewish and
Southern 38 2 The Sixties and the Necessities of Change 47 Theater of the
1960s 53 African American Writing in the 1960s 58 1960s Fiction, Mainstream
Markers 69 Feminism 74 3 Conventions and Eruptions 79 Poetry of the
Anti-War and Feminist Years 81 Feminist Fictions 90 Postmodern Fictions 101
Science Fiction and Alternative Worlds 112 The New Journalism 123 Theater
During the 1970s 129 4 New Ages and Old 139 Memoir: Another New Direction
142 Crime and Detective Fiction, American Style 150 Theater During the
1980s 168 5 The 1980s, Ethnicity and Change 175 Asian American Writing 178
Native American Writing 183 Mexican American Writing (i.e., Latino/Latina)
189 African American Writing 194 Poetry in the 1980s 203 Fiction in the
1980s 214 6 The 1990s and the Sexual 225 Sexual Preferences and
Social/Legal Issues 227 Theater of the 1990s 235 The Poem at the Turn into
the Twenty-First Century 242 Story at the Turn into the Twenty-First
Century 250 Southern Literature at the Turn into the Twenty-First Century
260 7 The Twenty-First Century 277 The Story of 9/11 and Its Aftermath 286
Theater 2000-2010 307 Poetry 2000-2010 311 Memoir and Life-Writing
2000-2010 319 Fiction 2000-2010 326 References 353 Index 365

Rezensionen

"This commendable handbook should stimulate renewed debate on the canon. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." (Choice, 1 September 2013)