American Post-war literature-overview

American Post-war literature - overview
In the 1940s America entered an era of post-war, post-atomic and postmodern culture.
The end of history, philosophy, ideology.
“No poetry after Auschwitz”.
The genocide and the atomic bomb.
The Age of Anxiety (the Cold War).
Materialism, military expansion, the age of the media; reality frequently resembling unreality.
Numerous new writers who emerged and new literary trends appeared.
Entirely original thought, as well as the influence of European existentialism or Latin American magical realism, or the impact of popular culture, the new media, the development of virtual reality and high technology.
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