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American Literature in Transition, 1950-1960
edited by Steven Belletto

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
Steven Belletto

Part I: Cultural Issues

1: Cold War
Arthur Redding

2: Mass Media
Katie Muth

3: When Psychoanalysis Was in Vogue
Mary Esteve

4:Towards Decolonization
Cathy J. Schlund-Vials

5: Religion
Jason Stevens

6: Politics
Tracy Floreani

Part II: Varieties of Literary Experience

7: WASP Culture
Keith Wilhite

8: African American Literature
Steven Belletto

9: Los(t) “Happy Days:” Chicana/o Literature, 1950-1960
Spencer R. Herrera

10: Asian American Literature
Tara Fickle

11: Gay and Lesbian Culture in the 1950s
Michael Trask

12: Feminist Literature
Kathlene McDonald

13: Youth Culture and the Postwar Drop-Out Narrative
Denis Jonnes

Part III: Schools, Movements, and Sensibilities

14: Proto-postmodernism
Robert Genter

15: Black Mountain College as Experimental Arts Community
Anne Dewey

16: The Beat Movement
Fiona Paton

17: Advertisements for Themselves: Poetry, Confession, and the Arts of Publicity
Christopher Grobe

18: New York School
Ben Hickman

19: Literary Exiles, Cultural Émigrés
Martin Halliwell

20: The Literature of Commitment
Alan Wald

Part IV: Formats and Genres

21: From Consensus to Conflict: Little Magazines in the 1950s
Loren Glass

22: Best Sellers and the 1950s
Evan Brier

23: A Genre Comes of Age: The Maturation of Science Fiction in the 1950s
Rob Latham

Bibliography