Facing the abyss : American literature and culture in the 1940s / George Hutchinson.
Facing the abyss : American literature and culture in the 1940s / George Hutchinson.
Facing the abyss : American literature and culture in the 1940s / George Hutchinson.
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New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
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G 2019/0647
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English
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Physical content
xvii, 439 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction -- When literature mattered -- Popular culture and the avant-garde -- Labor, politics, and the arts -- The war -- America! America! : a Jewish renaissance? -- A rising wind : "literature of the Negro" and civil rights -- Queer horizons -- Women and power -- Ecology and culture -- Epilog...
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New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
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New York (State)
Date Published
[2018]
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Summary
"Mythologized as the era of the "good war" and the "Greatest Generation," the 1940s are frequently understood as a more heroic, uncomplicated time in American history. Yet just below the surface, a sense of dread, alienation, and the haunting specter of radical evil permeated American art and literature. Writers returned home from World War II and...
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Facing the abyss : American literature and culture in the 1940s / George Hutchinson.
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American literature and culture in the 1940s
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-420) and index.
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G 2019/0647
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74VKV0866WBA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV0866WBA
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9780231163385 hardcover
023116338X hardcover
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810.90052
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991024227491102626
