Alice Walker, The Color Purple（紫色） (1982)--black women’s status Jewish American Literature:
Background: enormous contributions, persecutions and racial discrimination, holocaust around World War Ⅱ, great immigration to America, city life, Jewish subjects
Saul Bellow: （1915~2005）-- combination of realism and existentialism
Representative novels: Seize the Day 只争朝夕 (1956); Herzog赫索格 (1964) -- Nobel Prize in 1976 Chinese American Literature Pearl Buck赛珍珠
The Good Earth (1931) --- Noble Prize
Maxine Hong Kingston （1940~ ）-- The Woman Warrior (1976) 《女勇士》-- ethnic and gender issues, various literary forms
Amy Tan (1952 ~ ): The Joy Luck Club (1989)《喜福会》-- mother-daughter relationship