George Hutchinson

Facing the Abyss

American Literature and Culture in the 1940s

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Produktbeschreibung

George Hutchinson offers readings of individual works and the larger intellectual and cultural scene to reveal the 1940s as a period of profound and influential accomplishment. Facing the Abyss examines the relation of aesthetics to politics, the idea of universalism, and connections across racial, ethnic, and gender divisions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 162mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 766g
• ISBN-13: 9780231163385
• ISBN-10: 023116338X
• Artikelnr.: 48208265

Autorenporträt

George Hutchinson

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. When Literature Mattered
2. Popular Culture and the Avant-Garde
3. Labor, Politics, and the Arts
4. The War
5. America! America! A Jewish Renaissance?
6. A Rising Wind: ¿Literature of the Negrö and Civil Rights
7. Queer Horizons
8. Women and Power
9. Culture and Ecology
Epilogue: One World
Notes
Index