The Cambridge History of American Literature Volume 7: Prose Writing, 1940–1990

• Frontmatter
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• pp. i-xii

• Introduction
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• pp. xiii-xxiv

The Drama, 1940—1990 by Christopher Bigsby

• 1 - Introduction
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• pp. 1-9

• 2 - Tennessee Williams
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• pp. 10-19

• 3 - Arthur Miller
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• pp. 20-43

• 4 - Edward Albee
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• pp. 44-51

• 5 - Sam Shepard
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• pp. 52-64

• 6 - David Mamet
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• pp. 65-75

• 7 - Changing America: A Changing Drama?
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• pp. 76-100

Fiction and Society, 1940–1970 by Morris Dickstein

• 1 - War and the Novel: From World War II to Vietnam
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• pp. 101-134

• 2 - The New Fiction: From the Home Front to the 1950s
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• pp. 135-164

• 3 - On and Off the Road: The Outsider as Young Rebel
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• pp. 165-223

• 4 - Apocalypse Now: A Literature of Extremes
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• pp. 224-310

After the Southern Renascence by John Burt

• 1 - Introduction
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• pp. 311-319

• 2 - Robert Penn Warren
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• pp. 320-341

• 3 - Carson McCullers
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• pp. 342-346

• 4 - Flannery O’Connor
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• pp. 347-355

• 5 - Eudora Welty
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• pp. 356-366

• 6 - Novels of Race and Class
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• pp. 367-374

• 7 - Novels of Slavery and Reconstruction
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• pp. 375-391

• 8 - Walker Percy
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• pp. 392-404

• 9 - Reynolds Price
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• pp. 405-420

• 10 - Peter Taylor
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• pp. 421-424

Postmodern Fictions, 1960–1990 by Wendy Steiner

• 1 - Rethinking Postmodernism
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• pp. 425-450

• 2 - Fables of the Fetish
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• pp. 451-478

• 3 - The End of Traditionalism
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• pp. 479-498

• 4 - Women’s Fiction: The Rewriting of History
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• pp. 499-527

• 5 - Conclusion
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• pp. 528-538

Emergent Literatures by Cyrus R. K. Patell

• 1 - From Marginal to Emergent
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• pp. 539-563

• 2 - Comparative Racism and the Logic of Naturalization
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• pp. 564-591

• 3 - Nisei Sons and Daughters
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• pp. 592-614

• 4 - Legacies of the Sixties
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• pp. 615-654

• 5 - Refusing to Go Straight
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• pp. 655-670

• 6 - Beyond Hybridity
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• pp. 671-675

• Appendix: Biographies
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• pp. 676-716

• Chronology, 1940–1990
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• pp. 717-762

• Bibliography
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• pp. 763-774

• Index
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• pp. 775-795