Uncontained
Urban Fiction in Postwar America
by Elizabeth A. Wheeler
301 pages· 2001· ISBN 9780813529738
About
In the post-war era, American urban fiction was dominated by the imagery of containment. This book offers a critique of this familiar story, evident in the noir narratives of James M. Cain and in work by Ellison, Roth, Salinger, Percy, Capote and others.
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