English and American

Literature since 1945

v Katherine Edith Peña Palacios.

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v Katia Elisabeth Rosales Ortiz.
 Literature since 1945
After World War II ended in
1945, the United States
underwent many changes:
vThe economy prospered, but
the gulf between the rich and the
poor widened.
vThe black civil rights
movement gathered strenght in
the 1960’s.
vWomen began to demand fuller
rights.
vVietnam War.
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 Poetry
By the dominant form. A
generation of poets, Robert
Lowell, John Berryman and
Theodore Roethke, thoroughly
mastered modernist techniques.

Robert Lowell was an American poet, considered the founder

movement.

Robert Lowell
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 Modernist Poetry
Black Mountain Poets:
vCharles Olson.
vRobert Creely.
vRobert Duncan.
vDenise Levertov.
Beat Poets:
vAllen Ginsberg.
vGary Snyder.
vFrank O’Hara.
vJames Merrill.
vElizabeth Bishop.

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Confesional Poetry

Poetry was more personal

and emotional.
Poets:
vSylvia Plath.
vTheodore Roethke.
vAnne Sexton.
vAdrienne Rich.
vGwendolyn Brooks.
vLeRoi Jones.

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 Fiction and Prose
In the postwar period, many
writers continued to create
realist fiction, several authors
drew their subjects from World
War II and other described
regions of the country or the
experiences of certain age
groups or races.

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Southern Fiction

A number of southern
writers focused on the poor,
outcasts or grotesque
characters. Among these
writers were:
vCarson McCullers.
vFlannery O’Connor.
vWalker Percy.

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 Experimental Styles
The stylistic experiments of the
modernists opened the way for a
technique called self-reflexive fiction,
an innovative manipulation of
language and narrative.
The main writers were:
vJohn Barth.
vThomas Pynchon.
vJoseph Heller.
vJohn Hawkes.
vTruman Capote.
vVladimir Nabokov.

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 Minority Writers
of the 1960’s brought forth a number of popular autobiographies. Such

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mily.

novelist Toni Morrison wrote about the lives of black women in the No

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 Essays and Drama

le from the 1930’s to the 1950’s in shaping the public understanding of

The leading playwrights after World War II were Tenesse

Miller.
Other writers were:
vEdward Albee.
vLorraine Hansberry.
vAugust Wilson.

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