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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460563903321

Autore

Rowe John Carlos

Titolo

Afterlives of modernism : liberalism, transnationalism, and political critique / / John Carlos Rowe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hanover, New Hampshire : , : Dartmouth College Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-61168-814-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Re-Mapping the Transnational. A Dartmouth Series in American Studies

Disciplina

810.9/112

Soggetti

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Liberalism in literature

Transnationalism in literature

Modernism (Literature) - United States

Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction: The Inevitable Intimate Connection; I: Liberal Modernism and Transnationalism; [1] Naming What is Inside: Gertrude Stein's Use of Names in Three Lives; [2] John Dos Passos's Imaginary City in Manhattan Transfer; [3] Faulkner and the Southern Arts of Mystification in Absalom, Absalom!; [4] Our Invisible Man: The Aesthetic Genealogy of U.S. Diversity; II: Postwar Liberalism and the New Cosmopolitanism; [5] Racism, Fetishism, and the Gift Economy in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

[6] Alien Encounter: Thomas Berger's Neighbors as a Critique of Existential Humanism[7] Buried Alive: The Native American Political Unconscious in Louise Erdrich's Fiction; [8] Neoliberalism and the U.S. Literary Canon: The Example of Philip Roth; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A defense of liberalism in modernist and contemporary American writers