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Facing the abyss : American literature and culture in the 1940s / George Hutchinson. by Hutchinson, George, author. New York : Columbia University Press, [2018] Description:  xvii, 439 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents:  Introduction -- When literature mattered -- Popular culture and the avant-garde -- Labor, politics, and the arts -- The war -- America! America! a Jewish renaissance? -- A rising wind: "literature of the Negro" and civil rights -- Queer horizons -- Women and power -- Culture and ecology -- Epilogue: one world. Summary:  "Mythologized as the era of the "good war" and the "Greatest Generation," the 1940s are frequently understood as a more heroic, uncomplicated time in American history. Yet just below the surface, a sense of dread, alienation, and the haunting specter of radical evil permeated American art and literature. Writers returned home from World War II and gave form to their disorienting experiences of violence and cruelty. They probed the darkness that the war opened up and confronted bigotry, existential guilt, ecological concerns, and fear about the nature and survival of the human race. In Facing the Abyss, George Hutchinson offers readings of individual works and the larger intellectual and cultural scene to reveal the 1940s as a period of profound and influential accomplishment. Facing the Abyss examines the relation of aesthetics to politics, the idea of universalism, and the connections among authors across racial, ethnic, and gender divisions. Modernist and avant-garde styles were absorbed into popular culture as writers and artists turned away from social realism to emphasize the process of artistic creation. Hutchinson explores a range of important writers, from Saul Bellow and Mary McCarthy to Richard Wright and James Baldwin. African American and Jewish novelists critiqued racism and anti-Semitism, women writers pushed back on the misogyny unleashed during the war, and authors such as Gore Vidal and Tennessee Williams reflected a new openness in the depiction of homosexuality. The decade also witnessed an awakening of American environmental and ecological consciousness. Hutchinson argues that a common belief in art's ability to communicate the universal in particulars united the most important works of literature and art during the 1940s" -- Genre:  Criticism, interpretation, etc.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Peosta Library Circulation Stacks 810.9 Hut 2018 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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