Afterlives of modernism : liberalism, transnationalism, and political critique /
John Carlos Rowe.
- Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press, (c)2011.
- xiii, 222 pages ;
- Re-mapping the transnational : a Dartmouth series in American studies .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: the inevitable intimate connection -- Part 1. Liberal modernism and transnationalism: Naming what is inside: Gertrude Stein's use of names in Three lives; John Dos Passos's imaginary city in Manhattan transfer; Faulkner and the Southern arts of mystification in Absalom, absalom!; our invisible man: the aesthetic genealogy of U.S. diversity -- Part 2. Postwar liberalism and the new cosmopolitanism: Racism, fetishism, and the gift economy in Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird; alien encounter: Thomas Berger's Neighbors as a critique of existential humanism; buried alive: the Native American political unconscious in Louise Erdrich's fiction; neoliberalism and the U.S. literary canon: the example of Philip Roth.
9781611688146
2011000295
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015847453 Uk
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century Liberalism in literature. Transnationalism in literature. Modernism (Literature)--United States. Politics and literature--History--United States--20th century.