... of their means and ethnicity. The literary world of the early 1950s was energized by a confident and diverse new generation. As a result, the authors represent an unprecedented variety of national origins and social backgrounds. African Americans, Irish Americans, Polish Americans, Jews from Eastern Europe, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanic Americans gained large audiences and won prestigious literary prizes. As the ... and come into their own. Thus symbolizing what all of America desired after feeling betrayed by the war and the situations they could have never imagined p...

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