Repression and Realism in Post-War American Literature

1. Missing in Action: Repression, Return, and the Post-War Uncanny
Erin Mercer

2. Automatons and the Atomic Abyss: Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead

Erin Mercer

3. Haunting and Race: Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

Erin Mercer

4. The Sacred Other: Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood

Erin Mercer

5. Dubious Reality and the Double: Saul Bellow’s The Victim
Erin Mercer

6. The Familiar Made Strange: Paul Bowles’s The Sheltering Sky

Erin Mercer

7. Repression and Confession: Jack Kerouac’s On the Road

Erin Mercer

8. The Concealment that Fails to Conceal
Erin Mercer

Keywords: Literature, North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary History, Literary Theory