Key Terms
- Adrienne Rich
- Alice Walker
- Allen Ginsberg
- Beat Literature
- City Lights Books
- Cold War
- Cosmic Vision
- David Foster Wallace
- Dialect
- Deconstruction
- Don DeLillo
- Donald Barthleme
- Explicit
- Flannery Othlemer
- Flash Fiction
- GI Bill
- Gravitas
- Implicit
- James Baldwin
- James Dickey
- Jim Crow Laws
- Korean War
- Leslie Marmon Silko
- Metanarrative
- National Book Award
- PEN/Faulkner Award
- Postmodernism
- Poststructuralist
- Pulitzer Prize
- Ralph Ellison
- Satire
- Signs
- Southern Gothic
- Southern Renaissance
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
- Sylvia Plath
- Tennessee Williams
- Theodore Roethke
- Toni Morrison
- World War II