Ameerika kirjandus alates I maailmasõjast kuni tänapäevani.
The fear of the abomb was
real, they were scared that one of them will start a war. Several features of this period: new
books that appeared after the war, were novels of noncommitment, unlike earlier authors,
these authors did not believe in one specific philosophy, they were searching, some of them
found, some of them did not. Humour- it acquired new signs, became more ironic, sarcastic,
black humour. The problem of identity became central. Sexual identity, religious identitiy,
class identity, racial identity, on all levels it became important.
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Second WW novels
The 2nd WW novelists tried to imitate Hemingway, his style and social critisism became very
important. Horrors of wellfare.
Normaln Mailer, ,,The naked and the dead" his most famous anti war novel. It shows the
soldiers so as they are/were. Men do not control fate, chanche does. Any war is irrational, it is
like a wave. Soldiers are just molcules of water in it, moving randomly. They do not
annaabi.ee 
