This is the second part of a two-semester lecture that provides a survey of the key texts, genres, developments in North American literature and culture. The survey offered in this part covers the periods of Modernism and Postmodernism (with an excursus into Realism and Naturalism) and concludes with recent ethnic literatures. The authors studied in this course include Mark Twain, Henry James, William Dean Howells, Theodore Dreiser, Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mary Antin, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, Zora Neal Hurston, William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, John Updike, J.D. Salinger, Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Amiri Baraka, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Thomas Pynchon, David Mamet, Toni Morrison, N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, Sandra Cisneros, and Junot Diaz.