Selected Topics in Amer. Lit.: War and Post-War in 20th Cent. US Lit.

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The unprecedented, meritocratic mobilizations for the World Wars and Vietnam effected dramatic social transformations in masculinity, the role of women, gender relations, sexual behavior, and the status of ethnic Americans and African-Americans. This course explores the representation of these mobilization-inspired transformations in modernist and postmodern literature, a brand new project in literary study.