Truman Capote--along with his most famous works In Cold Blood and
Breakfast at Tiffany's--continues to have a powerful hold over the
American popular imagination. His glamorous lifestyle, which
included hobnobbing with the rich and famous and frequenting the
most elite nightclubs in Manhattan, makes him the subject of
ongoing interest for public and academic audiences alike. In
Understanding Truman Capote, Thomas Fahy provides a new direction
for Capote studies that offers a way to reconsider the author's
place in literary criticism, the canon, and the classroom. 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.
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