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Hardcover Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s Book

ISBN: 023116338X

ISBN13: 9780231163385

Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s

Mythologized as the era of the "good war" and the "Greatest Generation," the 1940s are frequently understood as a more heroic, uncomplicated time in American history. Yet just below the surface, a sense of dread, alienation, and the haunting specter of radical evil permeated American art and literature. Writers returned home from World War II and gave form to their disorienting experiences of violence and cruelty. They probed the darkness that...

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