Contested Terrain: Suburban Fiction and U.S. Regionalism, 1945-2020 - Brossura

Wilhite, Keith

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ISBN 10: 1609388577 ISBN 13: 9781609388577

Casa editrice: Univ of Iowa Pr, 2022

Riassunto

Contested Terrain explores suburban literature between two moments of domestic crisis: the housing shortage that gave rise to the modern era of suburbanization after World War II, and the mortgage defaults and housing foreclosures that precipitated the Great Recession. Moving away from scholarship that highlights the alienating, placeless quality of suburbia, Wilhite argues that we should reimagine suburban literature as part of a long literary tradition of U.S. regional writing that connects the isolation and exclusivity of the domestic realm to the expansionist ideologies of U.S. nationalism and the environmental imperialism of urban sprawl. Wilhite produces new, unexpected readings of works by Sinclair Lewis, Lorraine Hansberry, Richard Yates, Patricia Highsmith, Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen, Jeffrey Eugenides, Chang-rae Lee, Richard Ford, Jung Yun, and Patrick Flanery. Contested Terrain demonstrates how postwar suburban nation-building ushered in an informal geography that recalibrated notions of national identity, democratic citizenship, and domestic security to the scale of the single-family home.
 

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Keith Wilhite is associate professor of English at Siena College. He is editor of The City Since 9/11: Literature, Film, Television. Wilhite lives in Albany, New York.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Iowa Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1609388577
• ISBN 13: 9781609388577
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 296
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile