Secret Histories (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
424
Utgivningsdatum
2010-12-27
Förlag
Johns Hopkins University Press
Illustrationer
No
Dimensioner
231 x 155 x 28 mm
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590 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780801897122

Secret Histories

Reading Twentieth-Century American Literature

av David Wyatt
Häftad,  Engelska, 2010-12-27
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Secret Histories claims that the history of the nation is hidden-in plain sight-within the pages of twentieth-century American literature. David Wyatt argues that the nation's fiction and nonfiction expose a "secret history" that cuts beneath the "straight histories" of our official accounts. And it does so by revealing personal stories of love, work, family, war, and interracial romance as they were lived out across the decades of the twentieth century. Wyatt reads authors both familiar and neglected, examining "double consciousness" in the post-Civil War era through works by Charles W. Chesnutt, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington. He reveals aspects of the Depression in the fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anzia Yezierska, and John Steinbeck. Period by period, Wyatt's nuanced readings recover the felt sense of life as it was lived, opening surprising dimensions of the critical issues of a given time. The rise of the women's movement, for example, is revivified in new appraisals of works by Eudora Welty, Ann Petry, and Mary McCarthy. Running through the examination of individual works and times is Wyatt's argument about reading itself. Reading is not a passive activity but an empathetic act of cocreation, what Faulkner calls "overpassing to love." Empathetic reading recognizes and relives the emotional, cultural, and political dimensions of an individual and collective past. And discovering a usable American past, as Wyatt shows, enables us to confront the urgencies of our present moment.
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A useful introduction to a broad canon of 20th-century authors, this book touches on important issues in literary-historical scholarship and uses clear, conversational language deliberately devoid of jargon; a distinctive feature of the discussion is Wyatt's pointed use of a first-person personal voice that blends his autobiographical insights with his critical readings... Highly recommended. Choice 2011

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David Wyatt is a professor of English at the University of Maryland.

Innehållsförteckning

To the Reader Acknowledments 1. The Body and the Corporation 2. Double Consciousness 3. Pioneering Women 4. Performing Maleness 5. Colored Me 6. The Rumor of Race 7. The Depression 8. The Second World War 9. Civil Rights 10. Love and Separateness 11. Revolt and Reaction 12. The Postmodern 13. Studying War 14. Slavery and Memory 15. Pa Not Pa 16. After Innocence A Personal Note Notes Works Cited Index

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