Invisible Suburbs: Recovering Protest Fiction in the 1950s United States, edited by Josh Lukin, has just been published by the University Press of Mississippi.
Here's the Table of Contents:
Introduction: Thirty-Three Years of the Fifties
by Josh Lukin
Good Old Boy Masculinity and Same-Sex Desire in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Bitterweed Path
by Harry Thomas
Postwar Left Feminism and Antifascist Resistance in the Culture Work of Martha Dodd
by Kathlene McDonald
Anybody's Protest Novel: Chester Himes and the Prison of Authenticity
by Stephanie Brown
Rewriting Patriarchal Paradigms of Retardation in Elizabeth Spencer's The Light in the Piazza
by Ladislava Khailova
The Mid-century Pulp Novel and the Imagining of Lesbian Community
by Jennifer Worley
Afterword: The Conditions of Reception
Josh Lukin
Alluring, no? For more about the book, or to purchase it, go here.
1 comment:
I must say the title of Josh's introduction -- "Thirty-Three Years of the Fifties" -- intrigues me no end.
Congrats on the book, Josh. Looks like good and intriguing scholarship to me.
Nancy
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