{"product_id":"american-literature-in-transition-1950-1960-hardback-9781108418232","title":"American Literature in Transition, 1950–1960 (Hardback) 9781108418232","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAmerican Literature in Transition, 1950–1960\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChallenges the widespread misconception that the American 1950s was a placid decade with a literature to match.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSteven Belletto (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108418232, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 December 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e390 pages, 4 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.8 x 2.5 cm, 0.78 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAmerican Literature in Transition, 1950–1960 explores the under-recognized complexity and variety of 1950s American literature by focalizing discussions through a series of keywords and formats that encourage readers to draw fresh connections among literary form and concepts, institutions, cultures, and social phenomena important to the decade. The first section draws attention to the relationship between literature and cultural phenomena that were new to the 1950s. The second section demonstrates the range of subject positions important in the 1950s, but still not visible in many accounts of the era. The third section explores key literary schools or movements associated with the decade, and explains how and why they developed at this particular cultural moment. The final section focuses on specific forms or genres that grew to special prominence during the 1950s. Taken together, the chapters in the four sections not only encourage us to rethink familiar texts and figures in new lights, but they also propose new archives for future study of the decade.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction Steven Belletto\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Cultural Issues: 1. Cold War Arthur Redding\u003cbr\u003e 2. Mass media Katie Muth\u003cbr\u003e 3. When psychoanalysis was in vogue Mary Esteve\u003cbr\u003e 4. Towards decolonization Cathy J. Schlund-Vials\u003cbr\u003e 5. Religion Jason Stevens\u003cbr\u003e 6. Politics Tracy Floreani\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Varieties of Literary Experience: 7. WASP culture Keith Wilhite\u003cbr\u003e 8. African American literature Steven Belletto\u003cbr\u003e 9. Los(t) 'happy days': Chicana\/o literature, 1950–1960 Spencer R. Herrera\u003cbr\u003e 10. Asian American literature Tara Fickle\u003cbr\u003e 11. Gay and lesbian culture in the 1950s Michael Trask\u003cbr\u003e 12. Feminist literature Kathlene McDonald\u003cbr\u003e 13. Youth culture and the postwar drop-out narrative Denis Jonnes\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Schools, Movements, and Sensibilities: 14. Proto-postmodernism Robert Genter\u003cbr\u003e 15. Black mountain college as experimental arts community Anne Dewey\u003cbr\u003e 16. The beat movement Fiona Paton\u003cbr\u003e 17. Advertisements for themselves: poetry, confession, and the arts of publicity Christopher Grobe\u003cbr\u003e 18. New York School Ben Hickman\u003cbr\u003e 19. Literary exiles, cultural émigrés Martin Halliwell\u003cbr\u003e 20. The literature of commitment Alan Wald\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Formats and Genres: 21. From consensus to conflict: little magazines in the 1950s Loren Glass\u003cbr\u003e 22. Best sellers and the 1950s Evan Brier\u003cbr\u003e 23. A genre comes of age: the maturation of science fiction in the 1950s Rob Latham.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary reference works [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary reference works\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20reference%20works%20%5BDSR%5D%22\"\u003eDSR\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20fiction,%20novelists%20\u0026amp;%20prose%20writers%20%5BDSK%5D%22\"\u003eDSK\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: from c 1900 -\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20from%20c%201900%20-%20%5BDSBH%5D%22\"\u003eDSBH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46266252624152,"sku":"9781108418232","price":89.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108418232i_6e079aff-8a4b-44fe-ae2f-7db8d051467a.jpg?v=1696753987","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/american-literature-in-transition-1950-1960-hardback-9781108418232","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}