Invisible suburbs
Subtitle: recovering protest fiction in the 1950s United States
By: edited by Josh Lukin.
Contributors: Lukin, Josh.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9781934110874
Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Protest literature, American -- History and criticism; Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Protest in literature; Dissenters in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-150) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : thirty-three years of the fifties / Josh Lukin; title: Good old boy masculinity and same-sex desire in Cat on a hot tin roof and The bitterweed path / Harry Thomas; title: The wrong side of town : a walk on the wild side in an age of reaction / Ian Peddie; title: Postwar left feminism and antifascist resistance in the cultural work of Martha Dodd / Kathlene McDonald; title: Anybody's protest novel : Chester Himes and the prison of authenticity / Stephanie Brown; title: Rewriting patriarchal paradigms of retardation in Elizabeth Spencer's The light in the piazza / Ladislava Khailova; title: The mid-century pulp novel and the imagining of lesbian community / Jennifer Worley; title: Afterword : the conditions of reception / Josh Lukin.