Stranger America : a narrative ethics of exclusion /

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Contradictory ideals of egalitarianism and self-reliance haunt America's democratic state. We need look no further than Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and victory for proof that early twentieth-century anxieties about individualism, race, and the foreign or intrusive "other...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Toth, Josh (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville, VA : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
Colección:Cultural frames, framing culture.
Temas:
2000-2099
Ethics > United States > 21st century.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Science Fiction & Fantasy.
Ethics
Social aspects
United States > Social aspects > 21st century.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Melancholics and specters: between James Weldon Johnson and Alan Crosland
  • Promising intrusion in Nella Larsen's passing
  • Articulations of ambiguity: William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and James McBride
  • Touching Herman Melville's "Bartleby" (and other zombie narratives)
  • Consuming androids in the work of Philip K. Dick
  • The chameleon and the dictator in Woody Allen's Zelig
  • The autonarratives of Ernest Hemingway (and others)
  • The divinely unshareable self: from Edward Albee to Larry David
  • Bob Dylan's autoplasticity.

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