This course focuses on different uses of genre and prose styles to explore the mysterious and the unknown in the post-World War II U.S. novel, from roughly 1960 to 2000, and how these explorations address the American mythos: the nation’s self-constructed history of exceptionalism and progress. After the triumphal sensationalism of Allied victory in the war and the accompanying economic boom in the U.S., there began a period of cultural uncertainty with the dawn of the Cold War, the Counterculture, nuclear testing, the Civil Rights movement, and the uneven rise of global financial markets.... Read more about Myth and Mystery in Post-World War II US Fiction