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Modernism authors
William Faulkner wrote "As i lay dying", Ernest Hermingway wrote "For Whom the Bell Tolls", T.S. Eliot wrote "The wasteland(poetry)", F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote "The Great Gatsby", Robert Frost wrote "The Road Not Taken(poetry) -
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Modernism
-WWII ushered in the Atomic Age
-After WWI, Americans left behind many of the optimistic attitudes and humane values of the prewar world -
Harlem Renaissance authors
Langston Hughes wrote "i,Too(poetry & short stories), Zora Neale Hurston wrote "Their Eyes were Watching God", Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote "We wear the Mask(poetry), Ralph Ellison wrote "Invisible Man", Richard Wright wrote "Native Son" -
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Harlem Renaissance
-Provoked prose and poetry that expressed African American experience.
-In 1920s, New York City neighborhood of Harlem Renaissance was home to an unprecedent flowering of African
talent that left an astonshing cultural legacy.
-This remarkable period marked the first that African American artists were taken seriously by the culture. -
Postmodernism authors
Arthur Miller wrote "The Crucible(play)", Toni Morrison wrote "Beloved", J.D Salinger wrote "Catcher in the Rye". -
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Postmodernism
- During the fifties, many Americans who had lived through the Great Depression and WWII cared normaly -During the sixties, many Americans protested against the Vietnam War, racial justice, and social conformity