Visions of Belonging: Family Stories, Popular Culture, and Postwar Democracy, 1940-1960

by Judith E. Smith

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Visions of Belonging explores how beloved and still-remembered family stories--A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, I Remember Mama, Gentleman's Agreement, Death of a Salesman, Marty, and A Raisin in the Sun--entered the popular imagination and shaped collective dreams in the postwar years and into the 1950s. These stories helped define widely shared conceptions of who counted as representative Americans and who could be recognized as...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0231121717

ISBN13:9780231121712

Release Date:May 2006

Publisher:Columbia University Press

Length:464 Pages

Weight:1.45 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

20th Century American Literature Historical Study & Educational Resources History Literature Literature & Fiction Marriage & Family Minority Studies Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences

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