LEADER 03415nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910454478003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-84964-499-3 010 $a1-281-72514-5 010 $a9786611725143 010 $a1-4356-6101-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000533533 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH22933787 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000116233 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11984924 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000116233 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10027351 035 $a(PQKB)10237395 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000290654 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12068160 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000290654 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10230576 035 $a(PQKB)11126996 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3386343 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3386343 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10479874 035 $a(OCoLC)666931906 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000533533 100 $a20031016d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe business of America$b[electronic resource] $ethe cultural production of a post-war nation /$fGraham Thompson 210 $aLondon ;$aSterling, Va. $cPluto Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (200 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7453-1808-8 311 $a0-7453-1809-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aWhite 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. 330 $bThe 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. 606 $aBusiness anthropology$zUnited States 606 $aCorporate culture$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization 607 $aUnited States$xStudy and teaching 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aBusiness anthropology 615 0$aCorporate culture 676 $a306.4/0973 700 $aThompson$b Graham$f1965-$0781130 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454478003321 996 $aThe business of America$92073929 997 $aUNINA