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

Author/creator Wyatt, David, 1948-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,
Descriptionxix, 400 p. ; 24 cm.
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Portion of title Reading twentieth-century American literature
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [377]-391) and index.
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LCCN 2009052701
ISBN9780801897115 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0801897114 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780801897122 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0801897122 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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