Literature of the Vietnam War crosses genres, appearing in poetry, fiction, drama, memoir, and other nonfiction literary forms. The complex and varied literary images in these works match the public’s complicated and conflicting views of the war with representations echoing… Read More ›
Women’s social movements in the United States can be divided into three “waves” (although these divisions are not strictly chronological or oppositional). First-wave feminism emerged from the involvement of women activists in the antislavery, temperance, and women’s-suffrage movements in the… Read More ›
Literature is forever transforming. A new literary age is new precisely because its important writers do things differently from their predecessors. Thus, it could be said that almost all significant literature is in some sense innovative or experimental at its… Read More ›