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The suburb of dissent : cultural politics in the U.S. and Canada during the 1930s

Author: Caren Irr
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 1998.
Series: New Americanists.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Irr, Caren.
Suburb of dissent.
Durham : Duke University Press, 1998
(OCoLC)607102592
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Caren Irr
ISBN: 0822321769 9780822321767 0822321920 9780822321927
OCLC Number: 37792585
Description: ix, 293 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Before F.O. Matthiessen: 305 literary histories and a radical concept of national culture --
"All right we are two nations" : speed and the stratification of culture in U.S.A. --
A confluence of nationalism: Hugh MacLennan's early writings --
Situating "the worker": an overview of proletarian fiction --
Spatial phobias in Native son : Richard Wright's revisions of the proletarian novel --
Evading the garrison : class and ethnicity in Canadian regional fiction --
Provincial avant-gardes : confronting mass culture in U.S. and Canadian literary periodicals of the 1930s --
Proletarians who resemble Horatio Alger : parody in Nathanael West's A cool million --
The emergence of public culture : Dorothy Livesay's documentary poems --
Conclusion : remembering the suburb of dissent.
Series Title: New Americanists.
Responsibility: Caren Irr.
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