Repression and realism in post-war American literature

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Main Authors: Mercer, Erin, 1977
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Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: American literature readings in the twenty-first century
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Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230119093
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780230111660, 2011.
Carrier Form: 258 p.
ISBN: 9780230111660
9780230119093 :
0230119093 :
CLC: I712.074
Contents: Introduction: 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 * Conclusion: The Concealment that Fails to Conceal.