Invisible suburbs : recovering protest fiction in the 1950s United States /
Lukin, Josh.
Jackson, Miss. : University Press of Mississippi,
c2008.
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.
American fiction
Protest literature, American
Politics and literature
Protest in literature.
Dissenters in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.