Contemporary Literature, 1970-present (Research Guide to American Literature)

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.