States that the history of the nation is hidden - in plain sight - within the pages of twentieth-century American literature. This title argues that the nation's fiction and nonfiction expose a 'secret history' that cuts beneath the 'straight histories' of our official accounts.
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Examines novels, short stories, memoirs, and films that document the Vietnam war's impact on the home front. This book focuses on the process of readjustment, on how the war continued to insinuate itself into their lives, their families, and their communities long after they ret…
This collection of essays devoted to the centrality of place in the short stories and novels of some of the twentieth century's most famous American writers was conceived as a way to honor the life and career of Walter Sullivan, an author for whom place was central both in his f…
Reading Asian American and Latino literature, Bilingual Brokers traces the shift in attitudes toward bilingualism in postwar America from the focus on cultural assimilation to that of resource management. Interweaving the social significance of language as human capital and the …
Examining gay and lesbian historical fiction, this book demonstrates how the sub-genre helps us understand gay and lesbian history. It shows not only why the sub-genre should be taken seriously by historians but also how it implicitly works to ameliorate divisions between Christ…
This student-friendly Handbook provides an engaging overview of American fiction over the twentieth century, with entries on the important historical contexts and central issues, as well as the major texts and writers. Provides extensive coverage of short stories and short story…
In this newest volume in Oxford's Lives and Legacies series, Porter, a leading authority on William Faulkner, offers an insightful account of Faulkner's life and work, with special focus on the breathtaking 12-year period when he wrote some of the finest novels in American liter…
