03375nam 2200673 a 450 991045158640332120200520144314.01-281-73397-097866117339710-8032-1646-7(CKB)1000000000483923(EBL)332855(OCoLC)476135418(SSID)ssj0000104516(PQKBManifestationID)11114343(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000104516(PQKBWorkID)10079756(PQKB)10314032(MiAaPQ)EBC332855(OCoLC)232607388(MdBmJHUP)muse11852(Au-PeEL)EBL332855(CaPaEBR)ebr10233890(CaONFJC)MIL173397(EXLCZ)99100000000048392320070827d2008 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrApostles of modernity[electronic resource] American writers in the age of development /Guy ReynoldsLincoln University of Nebraska Pressc20081 online resource (279 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8032-1377-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-255) and index.The American writer and development : contexts of cultural internationalism -- The "skin game" : Du Bois, Wright, Malcolm X, Baldwin -- "You were in on the last days of Morocco" : Paul Bowles and the end of empire -- Sinophilia : China and the writers -- Nonalignment and writing : rich lands and poor -- Stone ages : Peter Matthiessen and Susan Sontag in Latin America and Asia -- African American representations of the Hispanic : remaking Europe -- Ugly Americans and vanishing Europeans : American presence, European decolonization -- "These great new times" : cosmopolitanism and contemporary writing.Apostles of Modernity offers an original, in-depth study of the literary manifestations of this period of globalism in novels, memoirs, essays, reportage, and political commentary. Through close readings of texts Reynolds revisits and reassesses U.S. internationalism, showing how writers and intellectuals engaged with a cluster of topics: decolonization, the rise of the Third World, Islamic difference, the end of European empires, China's enduring significance, and transatlantic and cosmopolitan identities. Throughout, the ideals of the United States as ""apostle of modernity"" and sponsor of American literature20th centuryHistory and criticismInternationalism in literatureAmerican literatureForeign influencesLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryForeign countries in literatureElectronic books.American literatureHistory and criticism.Internationalism in literature.American literatureForeign influences.Literature and societyHistoryForeign countries in literature.813/.5409358Reynolds Guy850704MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451586403321Apostles of modernity2474325UNINA