Book contents
- American Literature in Transition, 1940–1950
- American Literature in Transition
- American Literature in Transition, 1940–1950
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I The United States in the World
- Chapter 1 Why We Fight
- Chapter 2 Human Rights in American Political Discourse
- Chapter 3 Fictions of Anti-Semitism and the Beginning of Holocaust Literature
- Chapter 4 The Fatal Machine
- Chapter 5 Antifascism as a Political Grammar and Cultural Force
- Chapter 6 From Confession to Exposure
- Chapter 7 The Contested Origins of the Atomic Age and the Cold War
- Part II Emergent Publics
- Part III Media and Genre
- Index
Chapter 1 - Why We Fight
Contending Narratives of World War II
from Part I - The United States in the World
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 December 2017
- American Literature in Transition, 1940–1950
- American Literature in Transition
- American Literature in Transition, 1940–1950
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I The United States in the World
- Chapter 1 Why We Fight
- Chapter 2 Human Rights in American Political Discourse
- Chapter 3 Fictions of Anti-Semitism and the Beginning of Holocaust Literature
- Chapter 4 The Fatal Machine
- Chapter 5 Antifascism as a Political Grammar and Cultural Force
- Chapter 6 From Confession to Exposure
- Chapter 7 The Contested Origins of the Atomic Age and the Cold War
- Part II Emergent Publics
- Part III Media and Genre
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- American Literature in Transition, 1940–1950 , pp. 13 - 28Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017