03423nam 2200709Ia 450 991078555130332120230801224012.00-8047-7635-00-8047-8261-X10.1515/9780804782616(CKB)2670000000234160(EBL)994836(OCoLC)809771013(SSID)ssj0000752532(PQKBManifestationID)12280285(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000752532(PQKBWorkID)10787813(PQKB)11570502(MiAaPQ)EBC994836(DE-B1597)563922(DE-B1597)9780804782616(Au-PeEL)EBL994836(CaPaEBR)ebr10590943(OCoLC)1178768973(EXLCZ)99267000000023416020120306d2012 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccrHip figures[electronic resource] a literary history of the Democratic Party /Michael SzalayStanford, California Stanford University Press20121 online resource (337 p.)Post*45Description based upon print version of record.0-8047-7634-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-309) and index.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 --IndexHip 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 effectively branded and marketed the liberalism of their moment—and ours.Post*45American fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismPolitics and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAfrican Americans in literaturePopular culture in literatureLiberalism in literatureRace in literatureAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.Politics and literatureHistoryAfrican Americans in literature.Popular culture in literature.Liberalism in literature.Race in literature.810.9/358Szalay Michael1967-1507070MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785551303321Hip figures3737534UNINA