Hip figures
Subtitle: a literary history of the Democratic Party
By: Michael Szalay
Series: Post 45
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804776349; 9780804776356; 9780804782616
Subjects: African Americans in literature; Politics and literature; Democratic Party (U.S.); Popular culture in literature; History and criticism; Race in literature; American fiction; Liberalism in literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Burden in blackface; title: Copywriting and the ghost of Ernest Hemingway; title: Selling JFK in the Manchurian candidate and Rabbit, run; title: Ralph Ellison's unfinished second skin; title: White-collar liberation and The confessions of Nat Turner; title: Countercultural capital, from Alaska to Disneyland; title: Conclusion : Joan Didion and the death of the hip figure.