Apostles of modernity : American writers in the age of development /

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Apostles of Modernity offers an original, in-depth study of the literary manifestations of this period of globalism in novels, memoirs, essays, reportage, and political commentary. Through close readings of texts Reynolds revisits and reassesses U.S. internationalism, showing how writers and intelle...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reynolds, Guy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2008.
Temas:
1900-1999
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Internationalism in literature.
American literature > Foreign influences.
Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Foreign countries in literature.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Internationalisme dans la littérature.
Littérature américaine > Influence étrangère.
Littérature et société > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Pays étrangers dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
Foreign countries in literature
Internationalism in literature
Literature and society
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The American writer and development : contexts of cultural internationalism
  • The "skin game" : Du Bois, Wright, Malcolm X, Baldwin
  • "You were in on the last days of Morocco" : Paul Bowles and the end of empire
  • Sinophilia : China and the writers
  • Nonalignment and writing : rich lands and poor
  • Stone ages : Peter Matthiessen and Susan Sontag in Latin America and Asia
  • African American representations of the Hispanic : remaking Europe
  • Ugly Americans and vanishing Europeans : American presence, European decolonization
  • "These great new times" : cosmopolitanism and contemporary writing.

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