LEADER 03375nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910451586403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-73397-0 010 $a9786611733971 010 $a0-8032-1646-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000483923 035 $a(EBL)332855 035 $a(OCoLC)476135418 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000104516 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11114343 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000104516 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10079756 035 $a(PQKB)10314032 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC332855 035 $a(OCoLC)232607388 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse11852 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL332855 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10233890 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL173397 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000483923 100 $a20070827d2008 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aApostles of modernity$b[electronic resource] $eAmerican writers in the age of development /$fGuy Reynolds 210 $aLincoln $cUniversity of Nebraska Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (279 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8032-1377-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [223]-255) and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aApostles 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 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aInternationalism in literature 606 $aAmerican literature$xForeign influences 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aForeign countries in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aInternationalism in literature. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xForeign influences. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aForeign countries in literature. 676 $a813/.5409358 700 $aReynolds$b Guy$0850704 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451586403321 996 $aApostles of modernity$92474325 997 $aUNINA