1. AMERICAN CULTURE 1945-Present
The literary world of the early 1950s was energized by a confident and diverse new generation. ... African Americans, Irish Americans, Polish Americans, Jews from Eastern Europe, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanic Americans gained large audiences and won prestigious literary prizes. ... This rapid growth meant tens of millions more readers "and colleges and universities began to encourage the reading of writers and literary movements outside of "the canon- that had been established decades before. ... The interstate highways that spread across the continent in the late 1960s,...
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