American Literature / Unit 19 AML 1807 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Band 5 in One Entry: 1945–Present
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The idea
Twenty-five percent, the largest band. Postwar fiction from Ellison and Baldwin through Bellow, Roth, Updike and Salinger; confessional poetry, the Beats and the Black Arts Movement; postmodernism in Pynchon and Barth; Williams and Miller on stage; then the multicultural writers.
In practice
The biggest band, and the newest.
Where people slip
Two of the nine sample questions come from here.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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