Despite the devastation of combat in WWII, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb, the fiction produced in America in the decade following resolutely avoided the events and their implications. Repression and Realism in Postwar American Literature challenges popular notions regarding the ability of fantasy genres to force a confrontation with repressed horror by exploring the ways realist literature became a subversive site of reified taboo in America following World War II.
Despite the devastation of combat in WWII, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb, the fiction produced in America in the decade following resolutely avoi...
This study of fiction produced in America in the decade following 1945 examinesliterature by writers such as Kerouac and Bellow. Itexamines how, though such fiction seemed to resolutely avoid the events and implications of World War II, it was still suffused with dread and suggestions of war in imagery and language."
This study of fiction produced in America in the decade following 1945 examinesliterature by writers such as Kerouac and Bellow. Itexamines how, thoug...
