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Posmodernism
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Robert Penn Warren
The most famous American novel set in the realm of politics.I t took place during the era of the Great Depression. Stark rises to power as a principled voice of the common people; when he discovers that he has been used as a tool by politics -
Cold War 1947–1991
The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union ). -
Norman Mailer
is one of the most acclaimed war stories of the 20th century. Rooted in Mailer's own experiences as a G.I., the book follows an infantry platoon in and out of combat on a Japanese-held island in the South Pacific. The action is set during World War II, and some of its concerns are relatively specific to its time and culture. -
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Korean War
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J.P. Salinger
A controversial novel originally published for adults, it has since become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage rebellion . -
Ralph Ellison
the only one of Ellison's published during his lifetime.The hero, an educated and imaginative black man, is thwarted in opportunity largely because of the color of his skin. He chooses life underground, invisibility, in part because he is already invisible, (too visible) -
Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow, (1915-2005), was an American author. In 1976, Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature -
James Baldwin
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Beat Generation
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Civil Rights Act
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Vietnam War
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Woman´s Liberation
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Maya Angelou
born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry, and was credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. -
Moon Landing
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Watergate Scandal
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Pesident Nixon resings
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Alice Walker
born February 9, 1944) is an American author and activist. She wrote the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple (1982) for which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.The novel follows a young troubled black woman fighting her way through not just racist white culture but patriarchal black culture as well. -
Antinuclear and first cases of AIDS
is a social movement that opposes various nuclear technologies. Some direct action groups, environmental groups, and professional organisations[2][3] have identified themselves with the movement at the local, national, and international level. -
Sandra Cisneros
is a novelist, poet, short story writer, and essayist whose work gives voice to working-class Latino and Latina life in America. Her lyrical, realistic work blends aspects of "high" and popular culture. Her novel THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET (1983), a series of vignettes told from the perspective of a young girl growing up in Chicago, is required reading in schools across the country. -
Sovietic Union Collapses
The dissolution of the Soviet Union was formally enacted on December 26, 1991, as a result of the declaration of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union,acknowledging the independence of the erstwhile Soviet republics and creating the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) -
First Web Pages
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Don Delillo
is an American novelist, playwright and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television, nuclear war, sports, the complexities of language, performance art, the Cold War, mathematics, the advent of the digital age, politics, economics, and global terrorism. -
Terrorist Attacks
were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C -
Iraq War
was a protracted armed conflict that began with the 2003 invasion of Iraq led by the United States. The invasion toppled the government of Saddam Hussein -
Marlynne Robinson
Marilynne Summers Robinson (born November 26, 1943) is an American novelist and essayist. She has received several awards including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005 and the 2012 National Humanities Meda
