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Apostles of modernity American writers in the age of development /
In a revisionist account that takes "development" as its main theme, Guy Reynolds charts the responses of novelists, travel writers, and literary intellectuals to America's deepening engagement in world affairs following World War II." "Apostles of Modernity offers an origin...
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Format: | Government Document Book |
Language: | English |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2008]
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268 pages ; 24 cm. |
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Online Access: | Table of contents |
Contents:
- 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.