Beat Poets: Kerouac, Burroughs, & Ginsberg One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest CONTEMPORARY Narratives: both fiction Too soon to tell People beginning a Poetry of Dove, and nonfiction new century and a Cisneros, Soto, Alexie new millennium 1970s-Present (Continuation of postmodernism) Anti-heroes Writings of Angelou, Media culture Baldwin, Allende, Tan, interprets values Kingsolver, Kingston, Concern with connections Grisham, Crichton, between people Clancy Emotion-provoking Walker's The Color & Haley's Purple Roots Humorous irony Butler's Kindred Storytelling emphasized Ordinary Autobiographical essays People Card's Game O'Brien The Things They Carried Frazier's Cold Mountain
Beat Poets: Kerouac, Burroughs, & Ginsberg One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest CONTEMPORARY 1970s-Present (Continuation of postmodernism) Narratives: both fiction and nonfiction Anti-heroes Concern with connections between people Emotion-provoking Humorous irony Storytelling emphasized Autobiographical essays Too soon to tell People beginning a new century and a new millennium Media culture interprets values Poetry of Dove, Cisneros, Soto, Alexie Writings of Angelou, Baldwin, Allende, Tan, Kingsolver, Kingston, Grisham, Crichton, Clancy Walker's The Color Purple & Haley's Roots Butler's Kindred Ordinary People Card's Game O'Brien The Things They Carried Frazier's Cold Mountain
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