Primary Sources: Post War America 1945-1974: Literature

"... presents sources from eleven protest movements—political, social, and cultural—from the Revolution to abolition to gay rights to antiwar protest."

Literary conversations series.

"... a gathering of essays, articles, polemics, reviews, and interviews that have never before appeared in book form." publisher's description

Originally published 1953.

Foundation -- Foundation and empire -- Second foundation.

"... provides a substantial anthology of documents for contextualising texts from the Modernist period of Anglo-American literature. The documents are supported by substantial editorial, including an authoritative introduction which outlines key historical events, movements, and literary and cultural issues of the time." Publisher's Description

Presents selections from Jack Kerouac's novels, poetry, letters, and essays.

A three-act play concerned with the tensions in a middle- class African American family living on Chicago's Southside in the 1950s.

Edited, and with an introduction, by George Hendrick

"Gathers over 50 articles, poems, essays, speeches, literary criticisms and interviews, many of whom have never been published before."

The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray

The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and William Maxwell
Edited by Suzanne Marrs
Covers 1942-1996