Period of the Confessional Self

Question 0

• A time of uncertainty, revolt, & cynicism in America & a strong turning inward of American writers.
• Involvement in Vietnam & Cambodia.
• Widespread student revolt-highered.
• Disillusionist furthered by Watergate.
• Struggle for civil rights.
• Found values in self rather than society.
• By 90’s-private exploration of self-expire ament

Answer 0

Period of the Confessional Self

Question 1

1960-Present

Answer 1

Period of the Confession Self

Question 2

•-Night Mother- (PP Drama 1983)

Answer 2

Marsha Norman

Question 3

•-The Hard Hours- (PP Poetry 1968)

Answer 3

Anthony Hecht

Question 4

•-The Fixer- (PP 1967)

Answer 4

Bernard Malamud

Question 5

• -American Dream-

* -The Executioner’s Song- (PP)

Answer 5

Norman Mailer

Question 6

•-The Killer Angels- (PP 1975)

Answer 6

Michael Shaarra

Question 7

• -Beloved- (PP 1988)

* Last American Nobel Prize Winner (1993)

Answer 7

Toni Morrison

Question 8

•-Lost in Yonkers- (PP Drama 1991)

Answer 8

Neil Simon

Question 9

• Nobel Prize 1987

* Russian-American

Answer 9

Jasef Brodsky

Question 10

• -Fences- (PP Drama 1987)

* -The Piano Lesson- (PP Drama 1990)

Answer 10

August Wilson

Question 11

•-Live or Die- (PP Poetry 1967)

Answer 11

Anne Sexton

Question 12

•-The Young Man from Atlanta- (PP Drama 1996)

Answer 12

Horton Foote

Question 13

•-All the Way Home- (PP Drama 1961)

Answer 13

Tad Mosel

Question 14

•-To Kill a Mockingbird- (PP Fiction 1961)

Answer 14

Harper Lee

Question 15

•-The morning of the Poem- (PP 1981)

Answer 15

James Schuyler

Question 16

•-The Joy Luck Club-

Answer 16

Amy Tan

Question 17

• -Vineland-
• -The Crying of Lot 49-
• -V.-
• -Gravity’s Rainbow-
• -Slow Learner-
• -Mason & Dixon-

Answer 17

Thomas Pynchon

Question 18

•-Angels in America…- (PP 1993)

Answer 18

Tony Kushner

Question 19

•-Buried Child- (PP Drama 1979)

Answer 19

Sum Shepard

Question 20

•-The Reivers- (PP Fiction 1963)

Answer 20

William Faulkner

Question 21

• Nobel Prize 1978

* Polish

Answer 21

Isaac B. Singer

Question 22

•-Roots-

Answer 22

Alex Haley

Question 23

•-The Heidi Chronicles- (PP Drama 1989)

Answer 23

Wendy Wasserstein

Question 24

•-Partial Accounts: New & Selected Poems- (PP Poetry 1988)

Answer 24

William Merideth

Question 25

•-The Wild Iris- (PP Poetry 1993)

Answer 25

Louise Glück

Question 26

Dramas:
 •-Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf-
 •-A Delicate Balance- (PP)
 •-Three Tall Women- (PP)
 •-Seascape- (PP)

Answer 26

Edward Albee

Question 27

•-Crimes of the Heart- (PP Drama 1981)

Answer 27

Beth Henley

Question 28

• Nobel Prize 1980

* Polish-American

Answer 28

Czeslaw Milosz

Question 29

•Nobel Prize 1962

Answer 29

Steinbeck

Question 30

•-The Confessions of Nat Turner- (PP 1968)

Answer 30

William Styron

Question 31

•-The Mambo King’s Play-
•-Songs of Love-
?(PP Fiction 1990)

Answer 31

Oscar Hijuelo

Question 32

•-American Pastoral- (PP 1998)

Answer 32

Philip Roth

Question 33

• Nobel Prize 1976

* -Humboldt’s Gift- (PP 1976)

Answer 33

Saul Bellow

Question 34

• -Rabbit is Rich- (PP 1982)

* -Rabbit at Rest- (PP 1991)

Answer 34

John Updike

Question 35

•-Rent- (PP Drama 1996)

Answer 35

Jonathan Larson

Question 36

•-I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings-

Answer 36

Maya Angela

Question 37

•-Collected Short Stories- (PP Fiction 1966)

Answer 37

Katherine Anne Porter

Question 38

•-Talley’s Folly- (PP Drama 1980)

Answer 38

Lanford Wilson

Question 39

•-Lonesome Dove-

Answer 39

Larry McMurtry

Question 40

•-The Color Purple- (PP Fiction 1983)

Answer 40

Alice Walker

Question 41

•-Driving Miss Daisy- (PP Drama 1989)

Answer 41

Alfred Uhry

Question 42

• -Ariel-
• -Collected Poems- (PP Poetry)
• -The Bell Jar-

Answer 42

Sylvia Plath