Repression and realism in post-war American literature /
Mercer, Erin,1977-
New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan,
2011.
Includes bibliographical references.
Missing in action: repression, return, and the postwar uncanny -- Automatons and the atomic abyss: Norman Mailer's The naked and the dead -- Haunting and race: Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- The sacred other: Flannery O'Connor's Wise blood -- The dubious double: Saul Bellow's The victim -- The familiar made strange: Paul Bowles' The sheltering sky -- Repression and confession: Jack Kerouac's On the road -- The concealment that fails to conceal.
American fiction
Repression (Psychology) in literature.
Realism in literature.