Visions of Belonging : : Family Stories, Popular Culture, and Postwar Democracy, 1940-1960 / / Judith Smith.
Visions of Belonging explores how beloved and still-remembered family stories-A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, I Remember Mama, Gentleman's Agreement, Death of a Salesman, Marty, and A Raisin in the Sun-entered the popular imagination and shaped collective dreams in the postwar years and into the 1950...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2004] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Classic Editions
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (464 p.) :; 32 photos |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. ORDINARY FAMILIES, POPULAR CULTURE, AND POPULAR DEMOCRACY, 1935-1945
- LOOKING BACK STORIES
- 2. MAKING THE WORKING-CLASS FAMILY ORDINARY: A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN
- 3. HOME FRONT HARMONY AND REMEMBERING MAMA
- TRADING PLACES STORIES
- 4. LOVING ACROSS PREWAR RACIAL AND SEXUAL BOUNDARIES
- 5. SEEING THROUGH JEWISHNESS
- 6. HOLLYWOOD MAKES RACE (IN)VISIBLE
- EVERYMAN STORIES
- 7. COMPETING POSTWAR REPRESENTATIONS OF UNIVERSALISM
- 8. MARITAL REALISM AND EVERYMAN LOVE STORIES
- 9. RERACIALIZING THE ORDINARY AMERICAN FAMILY: RAISIN IN THE SUN
- Notes
- Index