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.
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.