03415nam 2200673 a 450 991045447800332120200520144314.01-84964-499-31-281-72514-597866117251431-4356-6101-X(CKB)1000000000533533(StDuBDS)AH22933787(SSID)ssj0000116233(PQKBManifestationID)11984924(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000116233(PQKBWorkID)10027351(PQKB)10237395(SSID)ssj0000290654(PQKBManifestationID)12068160(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000290654(PQKBWorkID)10230576(PQKB)11126996(MiAaPQ)EBC3386343(Au-PeEL)EBL3386343(CaPaEBR)ebr10479874(OCoLC)666931906(EXLCZ)99100000000053353320031016d2004 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe business of America[electronic resource] the cultural production of a post-war nation /Graham ThompsonLondon ;Sterling, Va. Pluto Press20041 online resource (200 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7453-1808-8 0-7453-1809-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.White male literary culture -- Errands in the post-war/cold war jungle -- Entropy, postmodernism and global systems -- Postnational recovery narratives and beyond -- The difference of gender, race and sexuality -- Objectivist fantasies and the industry of writing and piracy -- Assimilation, citizenship and post-ethnicity -- Queer profits and losses.The Business of America examines the complex linking of business and nationhood in post-war United States literature against the backdrop of changing concepts of the nation in the field of American Studies. The first part of the book examines how white male literary culture has been largely hostile to business during this period and how it has represented transnational shifts in the nature of business as threats to supposedly American values like the individual, the family, or freedom. The book charts the way that such an uneasiness towards business relies upon a discourse about America, business and empire that is increasingly untenable in the post-war world. By way of comparison, The Business of America looks at how literature by women and by writers from different racial, ethnic and sexual groups often deals with business from the more localised angle of work. Graham Thompson shows how this attention to work provides a less abstract and more oppositional approach to the connection between business and America.Business anthropologyUnited StatesCorporate cultureUnited StatesUnited StatesCivilizationUnited StatesStudy and teachingElectronic books.Business anthropologyCorporate culture306.4/0973Thompson Graham1965-781130MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454478003321The business of America2073929UNINA