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050	0	4	_aBJ352 _b.S773 2018
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aToth, Josh, _e1
245	1	0	_aStranger America : _ba narrative ethics of exclusion / _cJosh Toth.
260			_aCharlottesville, VA : _bUniversity of Virginia Press, _c(c)2018.
300			_a1 online resource (xii, 282 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
490	1		_aCultural frames, framing culture
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505	0	0	_aMelancholics and specters: between James Weldon Johnson and Alan Crosland -- _tPromising intrusion in Nella Larsen's passing -- _tArticulations of ambiguity: William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and James McBride -- _tTouching Herman Melville's "Bartleby" (and other zombie narratives) -- _tConsuming androids in the work of Philip K. Dick -- _tThe chameleon and the dictator in Woody Allen's Zelig -- _tThe autonarratives of Ernest Hemingway (and others) -- _tThe divinely unshareable self: from Edward Albee to Larry David -- _tBob Dylan's autoplasticity.
520	0		_aContradictory ideals of egalitarianism and self-reliance haunt America's democratic state. We need look no further than Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and victory for proof that early twentieth-century anxieties about individualism, race, and the foreign or intrusive "other" persist today. In Stranger America, Josh Toth tracks and delineates these anxieties in America's aesthetic production, finally locating a potential narrative strategy for circumnavigating them. Toth's central focus is, simply, strangeness--or those characters who adamantly resist being fixed in any given category of identity. As with the theorists employed (Nancy, Žižek, Derrida, Freud, Hegel), the subjects and literature considered are as encompassing as possible: from the work of Herman Melville, William Faulkner, James Weldon Johnson, and Nella Larsen to that of Philip K. Dick, Woody Allen, Larry David, and Bob Dylan; from the rise of nativism in the early twentieth century to object-oriented ontology and the twenty-first-century zombie craze; from ragtime and the introduction of sound in American cinema to the exhaustion of postmodern metafiction. Toth argues that American literature, music, film, and television can show us the path toward a new ethic, one in which we organize identity around the stranger rather than resorting to tactics of pure exclusion or inclusion. Ultimately, he provides a new narrative approach to otherness that seeks to realize a truly democratic form of community.
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650		0	_aEthics _zUnited States _y21st century.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1782016&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell