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Despite the devasation 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.
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Repression and realism in post-war American literature
2011, Palgrave Macmillan
in English
0230111661 9780230111660
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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
The concealment that fails to conceal.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-245).
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