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LCC1- Postmodern
Postmodern Literary Period
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Anne Sexton | The Death Notebooks |
| Jack Kerouac | On the Road, The Dharma Bums |
| Ralph Ellison | Invisible Man |
| Thomas Pynchon | Gravity's Rainbow |
| James Baldwin | Going to Meet the Man, Go Tell it on the Mountain |
| Gloria Anzaldúa | Borderlands/La Frontera |
| Donald Barthelme | The Dead Father |
| Tennessee Williams | A Streetcar Named Desire |
| John Updike | Rabbit, Run, The Witches of Eastwick |
| Allen Ginsberg | Reality Sandwiches, Howl and Other Poems |
| Gary Snyder | Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems. |
| Sylvia Plath | Ariel, The Bell Jar |
| Alice Walker | The Color Purple |
| Toni Morrison | Sula, The Bluest Eye |
| Flannery O'Connor | A Good Man is Hard to Find, Wise Blood |
| Leslie Marmon Silko | Ceremony |
| Adrienne Rich | "Diving into the Wreck" |
| John Ashberry | "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" |
| Raymond Carver | Cathedral |
| Maxine Hong Kingston | The Woman Warrior |
| Joy Harjo | The Woman Who Fell from the Sky |
| Donald Barthelme | Snow White, The Dead Father |
| A. R. Ammons | The Snow Poems |
| Annie Dillard | Pilgrim at Tinker Creek |
| Genres | Beat Poetry |
| Main TOPICS & Themes | Rejection of traditional literary forms and conventions, including the novel. Fragmentary style and lack of historical congruity. Modernist themes of alienation and existential thought.Key words: existentialism, metafiction, magical realism. |
| Historical Background | 1945-present |