Understanding Truman Capote
By Thomas Fahy and Linda Wagner-Martin
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
By reading Capote’s work in its historical context, Fahy reveals the politics shaping his writing and refutes any notion of Capote as disconnected from the political. Instead this study positions him as a writer deeply engaged with the social anxieties of the 1940s and 1950s. Understanding Truman Capote also applies a highly interdisciplinary framework to the author’s writing that includes discussions of McCarthyism, the Lavender Scare, automobile culture, juvenile delinquency, suburbia, Beat culture, the early civil rights movement, female sexuality as embodied by celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, and atomic age anxieties. This new approach to Capote studies will be of interest in the fields of literature, history, film, suburban studies, sociology, gender/sexuality studies, African American literary studies, and American and cultural studies.
Capote’s writing captures the isolation, marginalization, and persecution of those who deviated from or failed to achieve white middle-class ideals and highlights the artificiality of mainstream idealizations about American culture. His work reveals the deleterious consequences of nostalgia, the insidious impact of suppression, the dangers of Cold War propaganda, and the importance of equal rights. Ultimately Capote’s writing reflects a critical engagement with American culture that challenges us to rethink our understanding of the 1940s and 1950s.
Thomas Fahy
Thomas Fahy is professor of English and director of graduate studies at Long Island University Post. He has authored numerous books, including Dining with Madmen: Fat, Food, and the Environment in 1980s Horror and The Writing Dead: Talking Terror with TV’s Top Horror Writers, both published by University Press of Mississippi. He has also edited collections on Alan Ball, Aaron Sorkin, and David Chase.
Read more from Thomas Fahy
Night Visions: A Novel of Suspense Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Sleepless Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Unspoken Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Understanding Tracy Letts Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUnderstanding Truman Capote Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Writing Dead: Talking Terror with TV'S Top Horror Writers Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dining with Madmen: Fat, Food, and the Environment in 1980s Horror Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Understanding Truman Capote
Related ebooks
Understanding Truman Capote Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Truman Capote's Christmas Memory Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Jean Toomer's "Cane" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Southern Haunting of Truman Capote Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTruman Capote's Southern Years: Stories from a Monroeville Cousin Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Understanding Tracy Letts Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUncle Mame: The Life of Patrick Dennis Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide for Langston Hughes's "Slave on the Block" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLily's Ride: Saving her Father from the Ku Klux Klan Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Timeless Land Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Blacker the Berry Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mark Twain: Five Novels Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5No Barrier Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Thurber Letters: The Wit, Wisdom and Surprising Life of James Thurber Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Storm Of Time Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5American Follies Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Hippolyte: Little Known Facts About Alexis De Tocqueville's Lesser Known Brother Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWomen in Love (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Kiss and Kin Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUnderstanding Susan Sontag Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCane Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Pioneers (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTallulah's Story Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTouch and Go: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Family Sketch and Other Private Writings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Domestic Manners of the Americans Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide for Carson McCullers's The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRagtime (SparkNotes Literature Guide) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Thomas Mann's "Disorder and Early Sorrow" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBrooklyn Noir 2: The Classics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Literary Criticism For You
A Reader’s Companion to J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 48 Laws of Power: by Robert Greene | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/512 Rules For Life: by Jordan Peterson | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5As I Lay Dying Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of Virtues Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Gulag Archipelago: The Authorized Abridgement Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Alone: by Kristin Hannah | Conversation Starters Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Art of Seduction: by Robert Greene | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Man's Search for Meaning: by Viktor E. Frankl | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Letters to a Young Poet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Verity: by Colleen Hoover | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.by Brené Brown | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lincoln Lawyer: A Mysterious Profile Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Killers of the Flower Moon: by David Grann | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Moby Dick (Complete Unabridged Edition) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain | Conversation Starters Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5One Hundred Years of Solitude: A Novel by Gabriel Garcia Márquez | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Understanding Truman Capote
0 ratings0 reviews