A Concise Companion to Postwar American Literature and Culture

This hugely ambitious volume seeks to convey the diversity and, in the words of its editor, “the sheer intensity of creative drive” of post‐war cultural discourses in the US. An introduction by Hendin, an English professor and Tiro A. Segno professor of Italian American studies at New York University, is followed by 15 contributed essays. These cover subjects as diverse as the Fifties, the Beats, literary representation of the Vietnam War, the Downtown New York art scene, post‐war popular music, drama, film, and Black, Jewish, Irish, Italian and emergent ethnic (Native and Asian American, Hispanic) literatures. Each piece is followed...