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Stranger America : A Narrative Ethics of Exclusion /

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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Toth, Josh (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Series:Cultural frames, framing culture.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.