American Literature in Transition, 1940-1950 (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Vials, Christopher

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In the aftermath of World War II, the United States emerged as the dominant imperial power, and in US popular memory, the Second World War is remembered more vividly than the American Revolution. American Literature in Transition, 1940-1950 provides crucial contexts for interpreting the literature of this period. Essays from scholars in literature, history, art history, ethnic studies, and American studies show how writers intervened in the global struggles of the decade: the Second World War, the Cold War, and emerging movements over racial justice, gender and sexuality, labor, and de-colonization. One recurrent motif is the centrality of the political impulse in art and culture. Artists and writers participated widely in left and liberal social movements that fundamentally transformed the terms of social life in the twentieth century, not by advocating specific legislation, but by changing underlying cultural values. This book addresses all the political impulses fueling art and literature at the time, as well as the development of new forms and media, from modernism and noir to radio and the paperback.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108548601
• Artikelnr.: 50463647

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The United States in the World: 1. Why We Fight: contending
narratives of the Second World War Christopher Vials; 2. Human rights in
American political discourse Glenn Mitoma; 3. Fictions of anti-semitism and
the beginning of Holocaust literature Josh Lambert; 4. The fatal machine:
the postwar imperial state and the radical novel Benjamin Balthaser; 5.
Antifascism as a political grammar and cultural force Christopher Vials;
6. From confession to exposure: transitions in anticommunist literature
Alex Goodall; 7. The contested origins of the Atomic Age and the Cold War
Christian Appy; Part II. Emergent Publics: 8. Cross currents: WWII and the
increasing visibility of race Bill Mullen; 9. Good Asian/bad Asian: Asian
American racial formation Floyd Cheung; 10. Social realism, the Ghetto, and
African American literature James Smethurst; 11. From factory to home? The
crisis in the gendered division of labor Julia L. Mickenberg; 12. Public
excursions in fierce truth-telling: literary cultures and homosexuality
Aaron Lecklider; 13. Resurgence: conservatives organize against the new
deal Kathy Olmsted; Part III. Media and Genre: 14. Late modernisms, latent
realisms: the politics of literary interpretation Sarah Ehlers; 15. The
city in the literary imagination Sean McCann; 16. Noir and the ebb of
radical hope Alan Wald; 17. Narrating the war Philip Beidler; 18.
Paperbacks and the literary marketplace Erin Smith; 19. Literary radicals
in Radio's public sphere Judith Smith; 20. The state cultural apparatus:
federal funding of arts and letters Joan Saab.