Includes bibliographical references and index. Introducing American Literature and Culture in the Postwar Years / Josephine G. Hendin -- The Fifties and After: An Ambiguous Culture / Frederick R. Karl -- The Beat Generation is Now About Everything / Regina Weinreich -- From Bebop to Hip Hop: American music after 1950 / Perry Meisel -- American Drama in the Postwar Period / John Bell --Hollywood Dreaming: Postwar American Film / Leonard Quart and Albert Auster -- The Beauty and Destructiveness of War: A Literary Portrait of the Vietnam Conflict / Pat C. Hoy II -- Postmodern Fictions / David Mikics -- Gay and Lesbian Writing in Post World War II America / Mary Jo Bona -- Identity and the Postwar Temper in American Jewish Fiction / Daniel Fuchs -- Fire and Romance: African American Literature Since World War II / Sterling Lecater Bland, Jr. -- Italian/American Literature and Culture / Fred L. Gardaphé -- Irish American Writing: Political Men and Archetypal Women / Robert E. Rhodes -- Emergent Ethnic Literatures: Native American, Hispanic, Asian American / C Print version record.