A Study Of U.S Post-war Nonfiction

This thesis is an analysis of nonfiction based on three great nonfiction works from the perspective of cultural and historical background during the 1960s and 1970s in America, and it includes six parts.Part one is an introduction to the nonfiction and its major writer's achievements as well. Part two is focusing on cultural and historical background, on some great incidents in particular. Part three is to probe into the feature "credibility", comparing realism and nonfiction. Part four comes to analyze the differences between journalism and nonfiction. In the fifth part, the thesis mainly concentrates on many major characteristics, such as narrative strategies and language style of nonfiction. The last part is the part of conclusion.The conclusion to be drawn is that as an important literary phenomenon in American literature, nonfiction reflects precisely on the true social background, especially these great nonfiction works have displayed killing, anti-Vietnam war, and drug culture, and their influence on the psychological aspects of the refugees of the American Dream.Therefore, nonfiction is also useful means to observe American reality in the new century.