Walker Percy's "Love in the Ruins" and the Modern Conservative Identity
Walker Percy's "Love in the Ruins" and the Modern Conservative Identity
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Chapel Hill: DEPARTMENT OF AMERICAN STUDIES ∎ THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
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Chapel Hill: DEPARTMENT OF AMERICAN STUDIES ∎ THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
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Walker Percy's novel Love in the Ruins (1971) reveals the complications of American suburban politics at the height of the Cold War and of the civil rights movement in the United States, a moment during which racial anxieties became disguised as political moderation. The novel's suburban Cold War dystopia depicts a post-South in which political ide...
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Walker Percy's "Love in the Ruins" and the Modern Conservative Identity
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1734162364
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1734162364
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0038-4291,1534-1461,2470-9506
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1534-1461,2474-8102
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10.1353/slj.2015.0012
