Secret histories : : reading twentieth-century American literature / / David Wyatt.

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Place / Publishing House:Baltimore : : Johns Hopkins University Press,, 2010.
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (423 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • The body and the corporation: Norris, Chambers
  • Double consciousness: Johnson, Chesnutt, Du Bois, Washington
  • Pioneering women: Austin, Eaton, Stein, Eliot, Williams, Cather
  • Performing maleness: Hemingway
  • Colored me: Toomer, Hurston
  • The rumor of race: Faulkner
  • The depression: Dreiser, Fitzgerald, Yesierska, Di Donato, Himes, Farrell, Steinbeck
  • The second World War: Mori, Vonnegut, Pynchon, Silko, Hersey
  • Civil rights: Wright, Gaines, Baldwin, Walker, King, Clark
  • Love and separateness: Welty, Petry, Douglas, Mary Mccarthy, Friedan, Steinbeck
  • Revolt and reaction: Mailer, Didion
  • The postmodern: Shepard, Beattie, Carver, Delillo, Gaddis
  • Studying war: Cormac Mccarthy, Herr
  • Slavery and memory: Morrison
  • Pa not pa: Kingston, Walker, Ellison, Lee, Rodriguez
  • After innocence: Roth.