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English 329W: Contemporary Literature Fall 2010 Jefferson Hendricks Centenary College of Louisiana contact info texts/syllabus contexts for reading contemporary American literature policies/requirements theory links literature links writing links

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Contexts for Reading Contemporary American Literature

• American Cultural History, 1940-1949  --  Sue Goodwin, Lone Star College-Kingwood
• American Cultural History, 1950-1959  --  Becky Bradley, Lone Star College-Kingwood
• American Cultural History, 1960-1969  --  Sue Goodwin and Becky Bradley, Lone Star College-Kingwood
• American Cultural History, 1970-1979  --  Charles Gillis, Lone Star College-Kingwood
• American Cultural History, 1980-1989  --  Peggy Whitley, Lone Star College-Kingwood
• American Cultural History, 1990-1999  --  Peggy Whitley, Becky Bradley, Bettye Sutton, and Sue Goodwin, Lone Star College-Kingwood

• brief overview of post-1945 American literature  --  Norton Anthology

• The Cold War:  A Brief History  --  AtomicArchive.com

• "A Step Away From Them:  Poetry 1956"  --  Marjorie Perloff, Stanford U.  

• "Believing in Literature"  --  Amy Hungerford,  Chapter One of  Postmodern Belief:  American Literature and Religion Since 1960  (Princeton U. Press)

• "The Twilight of the Middle Class"  --  Andrew Hoberek,  "Introduction" to The Twilight of the Middle Class: Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work   (Princeton U. Press)