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Although Lillian Hellman was obsessed with truth, in her memoirs she often exaggerates, confabulates, and lies. So pervasive was Heliman's penchant for making things up that her reputation as a memoirist has suffered under a deluge of criticism. Hellman personified a era of many societal changes: greater sexual freedom for women, more opportunities for women to work, and television's growing impact on creating celebrities. Foremost, however, central to .Hellman's life was-the advent of McCarthyism, a period she describes in Scoundrel Time Scoundrel Time has drawn more criticism--actually vitriol--than any of her works, possibly because it tells many unwanted truths about that era. Despite her proclivity for fabulation:, Hellman's "stories"--her works of fiction presented as fact--often engage those underlying truths essentially "truer" than her surface fictions.
Advisor: | Cherin, Patricia H. |
Commitee: | |
School: | California State University, Dominguez Hills |
School Location: | United States -- California |
Source: | MAI 55/03M(E), Masters Abstracts International |
Source Type: | DISSERTATION |
Subjects: | American history, American literature |
Keywords: | HUAC Hellman, Hellman McCarthy, Mary McCarthy, McCarthyism Hellman, Truth in Memoir |
Publication Number: | 10020189 |
ISBN: | 978-1-339-51228-0 |