Secret Histories: Reading Twentieth-Century American Literature

by David Wyatt

Book Overview

Secret Histories claims that the history of the nation is hidden--in plain sight--within the pages of twentieth-century American literature. David Wyatt argues that the nation's fiction and nonfiction expose a "secret history" that cuts beneath the "straight histories" of our official accounts. And it does so by revealing personal stories of love, work, family, war, and interracial romance as they were lived out across the decades of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801897122
• ISBN13: 9780801897122
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 to 22 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary