Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. List of Illustrations xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 When Literature Mattered 15
7. 2 Popular Culture and the Avant-Garde 43
8. 3 Labor, Politics, and the Arts 75
9. 4 The War 114
10. 5 America! America! A Jewish Renaissance? 159
11. 6 A Rising Wind: “Literature of the Negro” and Civil Rights 196
12. 7 Queer Horizons 251
13. 8 Women and Power 293
14. 9 Ecology and Culture 324
15. Epilogue: One World 355
16. Notes 383
17. Index 421