Secret histories
Subtitle: reading twentieth American literature
By: David Wyatt.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801897115; 9780801897122
Subjects: American fiction -- History and criticism; History in literature; United States -- In literature; Literature and history -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The body and the corporation: Norris, Chambers; title: Double consciousness: Johnson, Chesnutt, Du Bois, Washington; title: Pioneering women: Austin, Eaton, Stein, Eliot, Williams, Cather; title: Performing maleness: Hemingway; title: Colored me: Toomer, Hurston; title: The rumor of race: Faulkner; title: The depression: Dreiser, Fitzgerald, Yesierska, Di Donato, Himes, Farrell, Steinbeck; title: The second World War: Mori, Vonnegut, Pynchon, Silko, Hersey; title: Civil rights: Wright, Gaines, Baldwin, Walker, King, Clark; title: Love and separateness: Welty, Petry, Douglas, Mary Mccarthy, Friedan, Steinbeck; title: Revolt and reaction: Mailer, Didion; title: The postmodern: Shepard, Beattie, Carver, Delillo, Gaddis; title: Studying war: Cormac Mccarthy, Herr; title: Slavery and memory: Morrison; title: Pa not pa: Kingston, Walker, Ellison, Lee, Rodriguez; title: After innocence: Roth.