Contested terrain : suburban fiction and U.S. regionalism, 1945-2020 /

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"Drawing on a body of literature published between 1945 and 2016, Contested Terrain proposes a more expansive treatment of suburban fiction as a discourse that operates within national and transnational geographies. Wilhite argues that the suburbs and suburban narratives reflect the latest, per...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wilhite, Keith (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2022]
Colección:New American canon.
Temas:
1900-2099
Suburban life in literature.
Suburbs in literature.
Regionalism in literature.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
American fiction.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The suburbs as region. Part I. Cold War battle lines and prohibitions (1940s-1960s). Moving out, moving in : race, residential rights, and domestic security
  • Adjustment culture : compulsory domesticity and its discontents
  • Part II. Neoliberalism and the post-Cold War era (1970s-1990s). Serious fiction : consumer-citizenship, market logic, and the postmetropolis
  • Containment culture : suburban domesticity and nation as home
  • Part III. Regional crossroads and the new Millennium (2000s-2010s). Moving back, moving on : transnational suburban regions
  • Housing crises : race, history, and recession-era domesticity
  • Epilogue: The end of the suburbs?.

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