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Author:

Rowe, John Carlos.

Title:

Afterlives of modernism : liberalism, transnationalism, and political critique / John Carlos Rowe.

Publisher:

Dartmouth College Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xiii, 222 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Liberalism in literature.
Transnationalism in literature.
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
Politics and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Re-mapping the transnational : a Dartmouth series in American studies

ISBN:

1584659963 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781584659969 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1584659955 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781584659952 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)694394443

LCCN:

2011000295

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)