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LCC1- Postmodern
Postmodern Literary Period
Question | Answer |
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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 |