Synopsis Modern American Literature comprises twenty-two essays which are based on presentations made by IAAS member-delegates mainly at the annual conference at Ludhiana during March, 1999. In the themes and authors selected there is a wide range from twentieth century’s high modernism to post-modernism, voices of African-Americans (theatre), Asian-Americans (theatre and fiction), feminism and the main stream of American theatre. Recent critical concerns too have occupied these scholarly attempts. Keeping in mind that it was the year of Ernest Hemingway’s birth centenary, nine essays have turned to his life and work, the post-war milieu he made his own and the typical Hemingway themes like gender and machismo, love and death, value in the midst of violence, faith and nothingness.