Invisible suburbs : recovering protest fiction in the 1950s United States /
Invisible suburbs : recovering protest fiction in the 1950s United States /
edited by Josh Lukin.
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2008.
- xxiv, 156 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-150) and index.
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.
9781934110874 (alk. paper) 1934110876 (alk. paper)
2007045824
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Protest literature, American--History and criticism.
Politics and literature--History--United States--20th century.
Protest in literature.
Dissenters in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
PS228.P73 / I58 2008
813/.540935873
Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-150) and index.
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.
9781934110874 (alk. paper) 1934110876 (alk. paper)
2007045824
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Protest literature, American--History and criticism.
Politics and literature--History--United States--20th century.
Protest in literature.
Dissenters in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
PS228.P73 / I58 2008
813/.540935873