American Literature / Unit 18 AML 1713 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Identity Plot in Postwar Fiction
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The idea
The witness proposes the identity plot as a rubric for twentieth-century novels, in the way the marriage plot serves the nineteenth. American novels after nineteen forty-five explore the tension between individual and collective identity and question competing notions of authenticity.
In practice
The marriage plot, replaced by an identity plot.
Where people slip
The rubric is the lecturer's, not a period label.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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