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

Contributor(s): Publication details: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2008.Description: xxiv, 156 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781934110874 (alk. paper)
  • 1934110876 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.540935873 22
LOC classification:
  • PS228.P73 I58 2008
Online resources:
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.

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.

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

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