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UNINA9910785551303321 |
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Autore |
Szalay Michael <1967-> |
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Titolo |
Hip figures [[electronic resource] ] : a literary history of the Democratic Party / / Michael Szalay |
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Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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0-8047-7635-0 |
0-8047-8261-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (337 p.) |
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Collana |
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Soggetti |
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American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century |
African Americans in literature |
Popular culture in literature |
Liberalism in literature |
Race in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-309) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Burden in Blackface -- 2 Copycats -- 3 Selling JFK in The Manchurian Candidate and Rabbit, Run -- 4 Ralph Ellison’s Unfinished Second Skin -- 5 White-Collar Liberation and The Confessions of Nat Turner -- 6 Countercultural Capital, from Alaska to Disneyland -- Conclusion: Joan Didion and the Death of the Hip Figure -- Notes -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Hip Figures dramatically alters our understanding of the postwar American novel by showing how it mobilized fantasies of black style on behalf of the Democratic Party. Fascinated by jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, novelists such as Norman Mailer, Ralph Ellison, John Updike, and Joan Didion turned to hip culture to negotiate the voter realignments then reshaping national politics. Figuratively transporting white professionals and managers into the skins of African Americans, these novelists and many others insisted on their own importance to the ambitions of a party dependent on coalition-building but not fully committed to integration. Arbiters of hip for readers who weren't, they |
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