Secret histories [electronic resource] : reading twentieth-century American literature / David Wyatt

Author:: Wyatt, David, 1948-
Additional Titles:: Reading twentieth-century American literature
Published:: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
Physical Description:: xix, 400 p. ; 24 cm.

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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.

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9780801897115 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0801897114 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780801897122 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0801897122 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-391) and index.

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