Jurca Catherine 1964

White diaspora : the suburb and the twentieth-century American novel / Catherine Jurca. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2001. - viii, 238 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Princeton paperbacks .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-229) and index.

Ch. 1. Tarzan, Lord of the Suburbs -- Ch. 2. Sinclair Lewis and the Revolt from the Suburb -- Ch. 3. Mildred Pierce's Interiors -- Ch. 4. Native Son's Trespasses -- Ch. 5. Sanctimonious Suburbanites and the Postwar Novel -- Epilogue: Same As It Ever Was (More or Less).

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American fiction--History and criticism--20th century
Suburban life in literature
Whites in literature

PS374.S82

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