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How does Lit. shape or reflect society?
What makes American. Lit. American?
What is the relationship between place and literature?
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The international conflicts affected life in the 1950s and 1960s?
What are The Korean and Vietnam Wars.
100
The questions written in the prosperous 1950s raised about the American Dream?
What does the "pursuit of happiness" really mean?
100
The past-World War II writings differ from writing that arose after World War I?
What is the writing after WWI was filled with despair; writings after WWII had pain, but still showed hope and courage.
100
Discord
What is conflict?
100
Idealism
What is the pure idea or dream?
200
The two important movements pressing for change in American society?
What are the Civil Rights and the Women's Movements.
200
A rebellion against a culture created by our own nation/people.
What is the difference between the rebellion of the 1960s and the American Revolution?
200
The novels and plays that took place in cities included this work...
What is "Raisin in the Sun."
200
Destruction
What is tearing something or someone down?
200
Prosperity
What is financial growth?
300
The Age of Anxiety?
What is the fear and violence of the postwar period.
300
How writers assumed the role of "witness" during this period?
What is the person who participated in the horrors and lived to tell about it.
300
The image of the city influenced the American poetry scene.
What is Its steel and glass beautifies, its overarching bridges and underground tunnels, its smoke, speed, and noise.
300
Suburbia
What is the partly urban and partly pastoral area where many families settled after WWII?
300
Identity
What is personal view of yourself?
400
The Age of Aquarius
When did some Americans put forth an alternative set of idealistic values?
400
The way writers assumed the role of "nonconformist" during this period?
What is writers began to stand apart in greater numbers.
400
The suburbs offered the middle class these.
What is The best chance for families to escape urban crowding and the pace and pressure of city life.
400
Conformity
What is wanting to fit in; to be the same as everyone else.
400
The Cold War
What is competition between Eastern bloc countries and the West?
500
Pop culture favorites in the 1950s and 1960s?
Who are the Beatles, Broadway musicals, and television shows like "I Love Lucy."
500
Writers assumed the role of "standard-bearer" during the period.
How did writers take on the vital task of articulating the principles that drove many social movements.
500
The less than rosy view of the American Dream emerged at this time, and the writers that expressed this view...
Who are John Cheever and John Updike.
500
Anxiety
What is a deep or extreme fear?
500
Conformity
What is everyone and everything being the same?