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Apostles of modernity : American writers in the age of development / / Guy Reynolds



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Autore: Reynolds Guy Visualizza persona
Titolo: Apostles of modernity : American writers in the age of development / / Guy Reynolds Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2008
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
Disciplina: 813/.5409358
Soggetto topico: American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Internationalism in literature
American literature - Foreign influences
Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century
Foreign countries in literature
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-255) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: Apostles of modernity  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-281-73397-0
9786611733971
0-8032-1646-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910826796503321
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