Repression and realism in post-war American literature /
[Book]
Erin Mercer
New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2011
viii, 249 p. ;
22 cm
American literature readings in the twenty-first century
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-245) and index
Missing in action: repression, return, and the postwar uncanny -- Automatons and the atomic abyss: Norman Mailer's The naked and the dead -- Haunting and race: Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- The sacred other: Flannery O'Connor's Wise blood -- The dubious double: Saul Bellow's The victim -- The familiar made strange: Paul Bowles' The sheltering sky -- Repression and confession: Jack Kerouac's On the road -- The concealment that fails to conceal
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American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism