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Cover image for book Repression and Realism in Post-War American Literature

Repression and Realism in Post-War American Literature

By:E. Mercer
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230111660
eText ISBN:9780230119093
Edition:0
Copyright:2011
Format:Page Fidelity

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This study of fiction produced in America in the decade following 1945 examines literature by writers such as Kerouac and Bellow. It examines how, though such fiction seemed to resolutely avoid the events and implications of World War II, it was still suffused with dread and suggestions of war in imagery and language.