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Title:

Invisible suburbs : recovering protest fiction in the 1950s United States / edited by Josh Lukin.

Publisher:

University Press of Mississippi,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xxiv, 156 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

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.

Other Authors:

Lukin, Josh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-150) and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

1934110876 (alk. paper)
9781934110874 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)180908026

LCCN:

2007045824

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)