Secret histories : reading twentieth-century American literature /
Wyatt, David,1948-
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press,
2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The body and the corporation: Norris, Chambers -- Double consciousness: Johnson, Chesnutt, Du Bois, Washington -- Pioneering women: Austin, Eaton, Stein, Eliot, Williams, Cather -- Performing maleness: Hemingway -- Colored me: Toomer, Hurston -- The rumor of race: Faulkner -- The depression: Dreiser, Fitzgerald, Yesierska, Di Donato, Himes, Farrell, Steinbeck -- The second World War: Mori, Vonnegut, Pynchon, Silko, Hersey -- Civil rights: Wright, Gaines, Baldwin, Walker, King, Clark -- Love and separateness: Welty, Petry, Douglas, Mary Mccarthy, Friedan, Steinbeck -- Revolt and reaction: Mailer, Didion -- The postmodern: Shepard, Beattie, Carver, Delillo, Gaddis -- Studying war: Cormac Mccarthy, Herr -- Slavery and memory: Morrison -- Pa not pa: Kingston, Walker, Ellison, Lee, Rodriguez -- After innocence: Roth.
American fiction
History in literature.
Literature and history