Learning Outcomes

After completing this chapter, you should be able to:

• Identify Second Wave writers of the Southern Literary Renaissance
• Explain how the Second Wave of the Southern Literary Renaissance differed from the First Wave
• Describe the impact that World War II had on the Southern Literary Renaissance
• Identify selected writers and works of American literature since 1945
• Interpret, compare and contrast selected works of American literature since 1945
• Describe how selected works represent American culture of the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and beyond
• Explain how literary postmodernism relates to literary modernism
• Describe the postmodern style and sensibility of selected works of American literature since 1945