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AMERICAN LITERATURE AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR - Coggle Diagram
AMERICAN LITERATURE AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR
BEAT POETRY AND CONFESSIONAL POETRY
Main representatives (beat poetry)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Gregory Corso
Allen Ginsberg
no distinction between poetry and prose
experimentations with graphic visual layout
impetus from the youth rebellion of the 1950s and the protests of 1960s
Main representatives (confessional poetry)
Robert Lowell Jr.
Sylvia Plath
the quality of confessions of the most private experiences
madness, family relationships, female awareness
FICTION IN THE 1960s AND 1970s
rejection of realism, use of double meanings, grotesque, surrealism
Main representatives
Harper Lee
To kill a mockingbird
Italian:
Il buio oltre la siepe
Thomas Pynchon
Kurt Vonnegut
Philip Roth
Portnoy's complaint
the monologue of a Jewish-American to his psychoanalyst
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Jewish writers
FICTION IN THE 1950s
Main representatives
Jerome David Salinger
The Catcher in the rye
Italian:
Il giovane Holden
autobiography of an adolescent who tries to maintain his innocence in the world of the grown-ups
Jack Kerouac
On the road
Ralph Ellison
Invisible man
a milestone in black literature
reflects the tensions and contradictions of America's society
FICTION IN THE 1980s
Main representatives
David Leavitt
Jay McInerney
Raymond Carver
influenced by painters and sculptors
Andy Warhol
George Segal
minimalism
clear and dry style to convey disturbing meaning
Themes
drugs
homosexuality
crisis of the family
AIDS
AFRO-AMERICAN NOVELISTS
Main representatives
James Baldwin
Alex Haley
Alice Walker
literary voices of women and minorities, combining feminism, ethnic and psychological issues
Toni Morrison
Richard Wright
Native son
Rich and powerful since the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s
CONTEMPORARY DRAMA
American regional speech, film techniques
Main representatives
Arthur Miller
Tennessee Williams
Broadway (NY) was the centre
West side story
Hair
My fair lady
The Living Theatre, founded in NY in 1947, provided an alternative to conventional theatre
Off-Broadway movement
Edward Albee
New experimental theatres in the 1960s
Off-off-Broadway
Vietnam war