Invisible suburbs : recovering protest fiction in the 1950s United States / edited by Josh Lukin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lukin, Josh.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Protest literature, American--History and criticism.

Protest literature, American.

Politics and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Politics and literature.

United States.

History.

Protest in literature.

Dissenters in literature.

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 156 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2008]

Contents:

Introduction : thirty-three years of the fifties / Josh Lukin

Good old boy masculinity and same-sex desire in Cat on a hot tin roof and The bitterweed path / Harry Thomas

The wrong side of town : a walk on the wild side in an age of reaction / Ian Peddie

Postwar left feminism and antifascist resistance in the cultural work of Martha Dodd / Kathlene McDonald

Anybody's protest novel : Chester Himes and the prison of authenticity / Stephanie Brown

Rewriting patriarchal paradigms of retardation in Elizabeth Spencer's The light in the piazza / Ladislava Khailova

The mid-century pulp novel and the imagining of lesbian community / Jennifer Worley

Afterword : the conditions of reception / Josh Lukin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-150) and index.

ISBN:

9781934110874

1934110876

OCLC:

180908026