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03773aam a2200481 i 4500 001 47953C160CD411EEAAE9666853ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230617010022 008 221125s2023 iaua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022041377 020 $a 1609389018 020 $a 9781609389017 035 $a (OCoLC)1358739864 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS169.T74 $b S77 2023 082 00 $a 810.9/32 $2 23/eng/20230313 100 1 $a Strand, Eric, $d 1971- $e author. 245 14 $a The global frontier : $b postwar travel in American literature / $c Eric Strand. 264 1 $a Iowa City : $b University of Iowa Press, $c [2023] 300 $a xii, 263 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a The new American canon : the Iowa series in contemporary literature and culture 520 $a "The Global Frontier argues that midcentury American writers were not straitjacketed by the anticommunist Red Scare, but rather pioneered a transnational sensibility. Enabled by air travel and the expansion of the tourist industry, they departed from the West/East binaries criticized by postcolonial writers and academics. American novelists and poets imagined themselves as egalitarian and culturally borderless, an ideology that Strand associates with the frontier. Although we associate the heterosexual white male with the "Ugly American" stereotype, a wide variety of literary travelers sought personal freedom and cultural enrichment outside their nation's borders, including Black, female, and queer writers. However, while minorities as well as straight white males went abroad to achieve autonomy and creativity, they were complicit in imperialism and the formation of global inequality. This book thus takes a critical view of the postwar frontier, a paradigm that displaced the collectivist ethos of the New Deal era. For American writers, the price of incorporation into a transnational professional class was not only forswearing communism, but also rejecting 1930s social commitments and the concept of an interventionist state. Even Richard Wright, who questions the privilege of white flight, himself enjoyed the privilege of the American traveler, leading to a blurring of racial identities. In our day, the explosion of mass air travel, communications, and various subcultures has threatened to discredit the nation-state form altogether. The Global Frontier concludes that a progressive orientation toward state-based reform has never been more important, especially in a new era of ethnocentric nationalisms"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a American literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Travel in literature. 650 0 $a Literature and transnationalism $z United States. 650 0 $a Literature and society $z United States. 650 7 $a American literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807113 650 7 $a Literature and society. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000096 650 7 $a Literature and transnationalism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01762400 650 7 $a Travel in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01155640 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01986215 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i Online version: $a Strand, Eric, 1971- $t Global frontier $d Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2023] $z 9781609389024 $w (DLC) 2022041378 830 0 $a New American canon. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240217011433.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=47953C160CD411EEAAE9666853ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search