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LOCATION:The Heyman Center\, Second Floor Common Room
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SUMMARY:Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 194
 0s
DESCRIPTION:Mythologized as the era of the “good war” and the “Gre
 atest Generation\,” the 1940s are frequently understood as 
 a more heroic\, uncomplicated time in American history. Yet j
 ust below the surface\, a sense of dread\, alienation\, and the
  haunting specter of radical evil permeated American art and
  literature. Writers returned home from World War II and gav
 e form to their disorienting experiences of violence and cru
 elty. They probed the darkness that the war opened up and co
 nfronted bigotry\, existential guilt\, ecological concerns\, an
 d fear about the nature and survival of the human race. In 
 Facing the Abyss\, George Hutchinson offers readings of indiv
 idual works and the larger intellectual and cultural scene t
 o reveal the 1940s as a period of profound and influential a
 ccomplishment.
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