Afterlives of modernism : liberalism transnationalism and political critique Introduction: the inevitable intimate connection Part 1. Liberal modernism and transnationalism: Naming what is inside: Gertrude Steins use of names in Three lives; John Dos Passoss 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 Lees To kill a mockingbird; alien encounter: Thomas Bergers Neighbors as a critique of existential humanism; buried alive: the Native American political unconscious in Louise Erdrichs fiction; neoliberalism and the U.S. literary canon: the example of Philip Roth