From Native Son to Kings Men - The Literary Landscape of 1940s AmericaPevná vazba
From Native Son to Kings Men - The Literary Landscape of 1940s AmericaPevná vazba On the heels of the Great Depression and staring into the abyss of a global war, American writers took fiction and…
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From Native Son to Kings Men - The Literary Landscape of 1940s AmericaPevná vazba
On the heels of the Great Depression and staring into the abyss of a global war, American writers took fiction and literature in a new direction that addressed the chaos that the nation-and the world-was facing. In From Native Son to King's Men: The Literary Landscape of 1940s America, Robert McParland examines notable works published throughout the decade. These authors spoke to the human condition in traumatic times, and their works reflected the dreams, aspirations, values, and hopes of people living in the World War II era.
Buck, James Gould Cozzens, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Hersey, Norman Mailer, Ann Petry, Irwin Shaw, John Steinbeck, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, and Richard Wright. Among the authors covered are James Baldwin, Pearl S. McParland explores how popular novels, literary fiction, and even short stories by these authors represented this pivotal