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Author:

Wyatt, David, 1948-

Title:

Secret histories : reading twentieth-century American literature / David Wyatt.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xix, 400 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--History and criticism.
History in literature.
United States--In literature.
Literature and history--United States--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

0801897122 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780801897122 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0801897114 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780801897115 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)490811349

LCCN:

2009052701

Locations:

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

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)