Southern Literature, Cold War Culture, and the Making of Modern America /

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"During the Cold War, national discourse strove for unity through patriotism and political moderation to face a common enemy. Some authors and intellectuals supported that narrative by casting America's complicated history with race and poverty as moral rather than merely political problem...

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Autor principal: Dominy, Jordan J., 1982- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social aspects.
Manners and customs.
American literature.
Guerre froide > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Cold War > Social aspects > United States.
American literature > Southern States > History and criticism.
United States.
Southern States.
Southern States > Social life and customs.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Southern culture, US nationalism, late modernism, and the Cold War
  • Part I: Southern canons and the vital center. Reviewing the South: competing canons in South Today and the Kenyon Review ; Southern studies as area studies: Faulkner and provincial nationalism during the Cold War ; American canons, southern fiction, and the institution of literary prizes
  • Part II: The return to politics. Eudora Welty and the problem of crusading ; Suburbs, civil rights, and southern identities
  • Epilogue: white working-class identity and US nationalism in twenty-first-century popular texts
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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