Contemporary Literature: 1970–Present covers American literature in the contemporary period, leading up to the present day. Ideal for student researchers, this new resource examines
works, authors, movements, and themes.
Topics covered include:
- Sandra Cisneros's House on Mango Street
- Genre fiction and popular reading
- Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies
- Literature and the environment
- David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross
- Toni Morrison's Beloved
- Multiculturalism and globalization
- Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried
- Postmodernism
- John Updike's "Rabbit" novels
- and more.
