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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Main Author: Reynolds, Guy
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2008]
Physical Description:
268 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
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.
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.

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