Facing the abyss : American literature and culture in the 1940s /
"Mythologized as the era of the "good war" and the "Greatest Generation," the 1940s are frequently understood as a more heroic, uncomplicated time in American history. Yet just below the surface, a sense of dread, alienation, and the haunting specter of radical evil permeate...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- When literature mattered
- Popular culture and the avant-garde
- Labor, politics, and the arts
- The war
- America! America! a Jewish renaissance?
- A rising wind: "literature of the Negro" and civil rights
- Queer horizons
- Women and power
- Culture and ecology
- Epilogue: one world.