Afterlives of modernism
Subtitle: liberalism, transnationalism, and political critique
By: John Carlos Rowe
Series: Re-mapping the transnational : a Dartmouth series in American studies; Re-mapping the transnational
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Hanover, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781584659952; 9781584659969
Subjects: History; Modernism (Literature); Politics and literature; Liberalism in literature; History and criticism; American fiction; Transnationalism in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the inevitable intimate connection; title: 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; title: 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.