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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"postwar United States"”.
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Elasticity and Hegemony: A Brief History of Addiction Narrative in the Postwar United States
The 20th century has demonstrated a great diversity of thought when it comes to defining addiction: a phenomenon that has been supposed to be everything from a chronic brain disease to a moral failing. Given that range, literary studies of addiction are often led to define addiction in narrow ways …
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A Specific Elsewhere: Locating Masculinity in Jack Kerouac's On The Road
In travelling across the postwar United States, Jack Kerouac hoped to revive what he perceived as the lost essence of America. Kerouac’s travels – many of which were shared with his friend Neal Cassady – represented a resistance to the postwar social ideal, an exchange in spatial systems that …
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Marketing modernism: Aluminum cladding and the American commercial landscape
In the postwar United States, aluminum became more widely used than any other metal in building construction except for steel. It was first produced in the early nineteenth century, finding architectural uses in the latter part of the century. By the 1960s, it was broadly employed to clad buildings …
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Resonant Bodies: Pauline Oliveros, David Tudor, and Music Mediated, 1950–1980
… art” evolved out of experimental music in the postwar United States. Substantially expanding the scope of Oliveros and Tudor’s legacies, long understood in purely music-historical terms, I argue that their engagements with electronic media—including magnetic tape, do-it-yourself circuitry, and …
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The Feel of the Road: Anxiety, Passivity, and Empathy in Postwar Women’s Road Narratives
… of challenging gendered expectations in a postwar era. Some women go on the road and work through their anxiety to imagine new roles for themselves where they reject patriarchal control to establish their own agency, embracing opportunities to exert control over their lives. Yet, others …