1. Fascism, Civil War (Hellman), falsity of American dream (Miller), innocence versus reality (Williams); Williams, Streetcar Named Desire, Miller, All My Sons. 

2. Protest against mainstream culture, liberalism, political activism, ecology, and non-Western religions. 

3. Depression, poetry as a therapy, personal issues, taboo topics such as abortion, and drug abuse. 

4. Major war writers: Heller (Catch-22), Mailer (The Naked and the Dead), Uris Mila 15. 

5. Morrison (Beloved), Ellison (Invisible Man), Walker (The Color Purple). 

6. Bellow (Herzog), Malamud (Assistant, Fixer), Roth (The Human Stain).