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Hip figures [[electronic resource] ] : a literary history of the Democratic Party / / Michael Szalay



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Autore: Szalay Michael <1967-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Hip figures [[electronic resource] ] : a literary history of the Democratic Party / / Michael Szalay Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, 2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
Disciplina: 810.9/358
Soggetto topico: American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century
African Americans in literature
Popular culture in literature
Liberalism in literature
Race in literature
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-309) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Hip 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Hip figures  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8047-7635-0
0-8047-8261-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910785551303321
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Serie: Post45