Repression and Realism in Post-War American Literature
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Repression and Realism in Post-War American Literature

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Repression and Realism in Post-War American Literature

About this book

This study of fiction produced in America in the decade following 1945 examinesliterature by writers such as Kerouac and Bellow. Itexamines how, though such fiction seemed to resolutely avoid the events and implications of World War II, it was still suffused with dread and suggestions of war in imagery and language.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. 1 Missing in Action: Repression, Return, and the Post-War Uncanny
  7. 2 Automatons and the Atomic Abyss: Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead
  8. 3 Haunting and Race: Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
  9. 4 The Sacred Other: Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood
  10. 5 Dubious Reality and the Double: Saul Bellow’s The Victim
  11. 6 The Familiar Made Strange: Paul Bowles’s The Sheltering Sky
  12. 7 Repression and Confession: Jack Kerouac’s On the Road
  13. 8 The Concealment that Fails to Conceal
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index