The proposed manual is based on a course of lectures and introduces readers to the most significant US novelists of the second half of the 20th and early 21st centuries. within the framework of the paradigm of regionalism and multiculturalism, including authors from the Southern, African-American, Asian-American, Mexican-American (Chicano) and Native American subtraditions. A separate chapter is devoted to English-language writers of Russian origin, whose work has become increasingly noticeable in US literature in the last few years, and a brief overview of the interaction of the modern US novel with Russian classics. For philology students and anyone interested in US literature.

Contents : Literature of the “mainstream” of the USA of the second half of the 20th century (Jerome Salinger, Jack Kerouac; John Barth, Thomas Pynchon; John Gardner, John Irving; Truman Capote, Norman Mailer; John Updike, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Edgar Doctorow). Mythology of the American South (William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, Carson McCullers, William Styron, Truman Capote, Harper Lee, Daniel Wallace, Kathryn Stockett). The slave narrative as an archetype of African-American literature (Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Alice Randall).Mythology and the Oral Word in Native American and Mexican-American Traditions (N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie, Rudolph Anaya, Sandra Cisneros). Syncretism in Asian American Literature (Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Gish Zheng, Ha Jin, Jhumpa Lahiri).Russian-American tradition and Russian classics in the modern novel of the USA (Vladimir Nabokov, Vasily Aksenov, Lara Vapnyar, Irina Rein, Olga Grushina, Harry Shteyngart).Questions for discussion.References .Recommended texts and film adaptations.