The Lost Generation and the first postwar in America. A conflicting worldview?

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34096/hyg.n2.11135
Keywords: First World War, American Culture and Society, Literature, Lost Generation, The Roaring Twenties

Abstract

After World War I, bourgeois moral started to be questioned in differents aspects around the Western world. In the United States we can observe a series of conflicts in the cultural sphere, which involved the questioning of thoughts, opinions and practices that were established and supported by diferents powerful areas. This disagreement was expressed in American literature, specially through the writers of the Lost Generation. We propose to analyze in which ways that questioning has been expressed, including its advances and limitations, taking in account three novelists who belonged to that group.

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Author Biography

Griselda Labbate, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina
Griselda Labbate is a Professor and BA in History from the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. She teaches at secondary and higher education levels. Her research interest is focused on the interdisciplinary encounter between History and Literature, especially regarding the first decades of the twentieth century.

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Published
2022-09-19
How to Cite
Labbate, G. (2022). The Lost Generation and the first postwar in America. A conflicting worldview?. Historia & Guerra, (2), 99-117. https://doi.org/10.34096/hyg.n2.11135
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No 2 (2022): Julio-Diciembre
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