This course studies the post-WWII period in American Literature, usually called American Postmodernism. It examines various literary manifestations of the postmodern ethos (e.g. Beats, Black Arts Movement, feminism, LGBT, Chicano/a) as the country enters the tumultuous decades of the 1960s and 1970s. It looks at the literatures of the late eighties through the early twenty-first century, as they continue their conversations with the past, with politics, and with technological advancement, and respond to calls for a « new » literature.
This course studies the post-WWII period in American Literature, usually called American Postmodernism. It examines various literary manifestations of the postmodern ethos (e.g. Beats, Black Arts Movement, feminism, LGBT, Chicano/a) as the country enters the tumultuous decades of the 1960s and 1970s. It looks at the literatures of the late eighties through the early twenty-first century, as they continue their conversations with the past, with politics, and with technological advancement, and respond to calls for a « new » literature.
