Ameerika kirjandus alates I maailmasõjast kuni tänapäevani.
America-jfk, Robert kennedy, martin luther king. Atmosphere of violence and fear, the
atmosphere was not helped in any way by the vietnam war, ended 11 years later. Disgrace for
the american politics, it was a very powerful anti-war movement inside America, socially
speaking 1960's is comparible with 1930's. In art surrealism. Traditional values of American
success. Traditional values were no longer popular, alternative lifestyles appeared, alternative
lifetsyles found expressions in counter-cultures of the 1960's- the hippie movement,
experimented with drugs, unlike the beatniks they lived in communes, they were interested in
arts and crafts, like the beatniks they advertised the sexual freedom. These young people were
infatulated with eastern religions and native american religions. The hippies were known as
pacifists, the flower children. All kinds of new forms of art appeared, rock music became
prominent, in 1969 the major event took place-woodstock