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Secret histories : reading twentieth-century American literature / David Wyatt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wyatt, David, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- History in literature.
- Literature and history.
- History.
- United States--In literature.
- United States.
- Literature and history--United States--History.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 400 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801897115
- 0801897114
- 9780801897122
- 0801897122
- OCLC:
- 490811349
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