American Small-Town Fiction, 1940-1960

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  • American Small-Town Fiction, 1940-1960 Book Detail

  • Author : Nathanael T. Booth
  • Release Date : 2019-01-10
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 218
  • ISBN 13 : 1476635722
  • File Size : 2,2 MB
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American Small-Town Fiction, 1940-1960 by Nathanael T. Booth PDF Summary

Book Description: In literature and popular culture, small town America is often idealized as distilling the national spirit. Does the myth of the small town conceal deep-seated reactionary tendencies or does it contain the basis of a national re-imagining? During the period between 1940 and 1960, America underwent a great shift in self-mythologizing that can be charted through representations of small towns. Authors like Henry Bellamann and Grace Metalious continued the tradition of Sherwood Anderson in showing the small town--by extension, America itself--profoundly warping the souls of its citizens. Meanwhile, Ray Bradbury, Toshio Mori and Ross Lockridge, Jr., sought to identify the small town's potential for growth, away from the shadows cast by World War II toward a more inclusive, democratic future. Examined together, these works are key to understanding how mid-20th century America refashioned itself in light of a new postwar order, and how the literary small town both obscures and reveals contradictions at the heart of the American experience.

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