Cut off from words: Robert Lowell's "tranquilized Fifties."
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Robert Lowell's 'Life Studies,' published in 1959, is a reflection of his childhood days in a blocked, frustrated, incomplete discourse, which represents him as a victim of failed communication. Tranquillized Fifties suggest a neurotic age with conflicting ethos. 'Skunk Hour,' which is one of the first poems in 'Life Studies,' is an example of the disparity between individual action and the appropriateness of information. The topics of incomplete and problematic discourse is characteristic of the poems in 'Life Studies,' as they are part of the common text of 1950s America.
Publication Name: Prospects
Subject: Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
ISSN: 0361-2333
Year: 1996
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Renarrating the thirties in forties and fifties
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The literary radicalism of the 1930s came into vogue when many American writers embraced the tenets of proletarian literature as a means of protesting the economic hardship of the Depression era. In later decades, the 1940s and 1950s in particular, the literary radicals of the 1930s would be demonized collectively when politicians sought to isolate writers perceived to be sympathetic to the ideals of the Communist Party. As part of the cultural witch-hunt that ensued, literary analysis was recast for the specific purpose of marginalizing leftist writers.
Publication Name: Prospects
Subject: Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
ISSN: 0361-2333
Year: 1995
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Harriet Wilson and the white reader: authority and audience in Our Nig
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The author discusses the intended white audience of African-American writer Harriet Wilson's 1859 work 'Our Nig' and the complexities of the narrative's analysis of racism and slavery in the US.
Publication Name: Prospects
Subject: Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
ISSN: 0361-2333
Year: 1999
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