5 American Literature Diversified

American Literature Diversified

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

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)\u00A0The Adventures of Augie March (1953)\u00A0Henderson the Rain King (1958)\u00A0Seize the Day (1956)\u00A0Herzog (1964) \u00A0Mr. Sammler’s Planet (1970)\u00A0Humboldt’s Gift (1975)\u00A0More 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

Raymond Carver

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Cathedral

Where I Am Calling From

John Updike

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