Postwar American Literature. A Coursebook

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Academic Paper from the year 2023 in the subject American Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: This coursebook focuses on postwar American literature. The paper begins with the first chapter "From brief references to more extended discussion of identity coordinates applied to literary constructions of identity: some illustrations". The second point deals with "Rewriting the American Culturescape. Kurt Vonnegut". The next chapters are "Constructing a Poetic Self: Plath's Identity Transformations", "Traumatic Memory and Artistic Representation in Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and Heller's Catch", "Truman Capote's Voices and Rooms and His Idiosyncratic Expressions of Diversity" and "Rednecks Gone Wild: Ecodefense and Edward Abbey¿s Monkeywrenching". The final chapter deals with "Terror, MonkeyWrenching and (Counter)Netwar: Reading Edward Abbey in the Age of Pure War".