Key Terms

  • Adrienne Rich
  • Alice Walker
  • Allen Ginsberg
  • Beat Literature
  • City Lights Books
  • Cold War
  • Cosmic Vision
  • David Foster Wallace
  • Dialect
  • Deconstruction
  • Don DeLillo
  • Donald Barthleme
  • Explicit
  • Flannery Othlemer
  • Flash Fiction
  • GI Bill
  • Gravitas
  • Implicit
  • James Baldwin
  • James Dickey
  • Jim Crow Laws
  • Korean War
  • Leslie Marmon Silko
  • Metanarrative
  • National Book Award
  • PEN/Faulkner Award
  • Postmodernism
  • Poststructuralist
  • Pulitzer Prize
  • Ralph Ellison
  • Satire
  • Signs
  • Southern Gothic
  • Southern Renaissance
  • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
  • Sylvia Plath
  • Tennessee Williams
  • Theodore Roethke
  • Toni Morrison
  • World War II

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Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865-Present Copyright © by Amy Berke; Jordan Cofer; Robert R. Bleil; and Doug Davis is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.