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  1. African American political thought and American culture
    the nation's struggle for racial justice
    Author: Zamalin, Alex
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY

    "This book demonstrates how certain African American writers radically re-envisioned core American ideals in order to make them serviceable for racial justice. Each writer's unprecedented reconstruction of key American values has the potential to... more

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    "This book demonstrates how certain African American writers radically re-envisioned core American ideals in order to make them serviceable for racial justice. Each writer's unprecedented reconstruction of key American values has the potential to energize American citizenship today"-- "In African American Political Thought and American Culture, Alex Zamalin argues that African American writers James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison expand the boundaries of American political thought and practice. These three writers uniquely reimagined core American ideals such as freedom, democratic commitment, and generosity, demonstrating that the practice of these values in everyday life, alongside the enactment of public policies and legislation, is essential for achieving racial justice. Through a historically and politically grounded reading of their work, Zamalin demonstrates that attending to these insights illuminates a previously unrecognized aspect of twentieth century African American political thought and intellectual life, and reveals a powerful and energizing source in the contemporary struggle for racial equality"-- 1. African American Political Thought and American Culture -- 2. James Baldwin's Reconstruction of American Freedom -- 3. Ralph Ellison's Democratic Vision -- 4. Toni Morrison's Beloved, Generosity and Racial Justice -- 5. Conclusion: Racial Justice Today

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781137528094
    RVK Categories: HU 1728
    Subjects: Englisch; Soziale Gerechtigkeit <Motiv>; Ethnische Beziehungen <Motiv>; Literatur
    Other subjects: Ellison, Ralph (1914-1994); Baldwin, James (1924-1987); Morrison, Toni (1931-2019); Baldwin, James / 1924-1987 / Political and social views; Ellison, Ralph / Political and social views; Morrison, Toni / Political and social views; American literature / African American authors / History and criticism; African Americans / Intellectual life / 20th century; African Americans / Politics and government / 20th century; Politics and literature / United States / History / 20th century; Ideals (Philosophy) in literature; Race relations in literature; Social justice in literature
    Scope: xi, 192 S.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    1. African American Political Thought and American Culture2. James Baldwin's Reconstruction of American Freedom -- 3. Ralph Ellison's Democratic Vision -- 4. Toni Morrison's Beloved, Generosity and Racial Justice -- 5. Conclusion: Racial Justice Today.
  2. Reagan's war stories
    a Cold War presidency
    Author: Griffin, Benjamin
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland

    "Reagan's War Stories examines the relationship between Ronald Reagan, the public, and popular culture. From an overview of Reagan's youth and the pulp fiction he consumed, we get a sense of the future president's good vs. evil outlook. Carrying that... more

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    "Reagan's War Stories examines the relationship between Ronald Reagan, the public, and popular culture. From an overview of Reagan's youth and the pulp fiction he consumed, we get a sense of the future president's good vs. evil outlook. Carrying that over into Reagan's reading an choices as president, Griffin situates narrative at the center of Reagan's political formation and leadership, providing a compelling account of both Reagan's life, his presidency, and a lens into non-traditional strategy formulation"

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781682477786
    Subjects: Politik; Weltbild; Literatur; Ethik
    Other subjects: Reagan, Ronald (1911-2004); Reagan, Ronald / Books and reading; Reagan, Ronald / Political and social views; Politics and literature / United States / History / 20th century; Politics and culture / United States / History / 20th century; Rhetoric / Political aspects / United States / History / 20th century; National security / United States / Decision making / History / 20th century; United States / Foreign relations / 1981-1989; Cold War in popular culture / United States; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political; Reagan, Ronald; Books and reading; Cold War (1945-1989) in popular culture; Diplomatic relations; National security / Decision making; Political and social views; Politics and culture; Politics and literature; Rhetoric / Political aspects; United States; 1900-1999; History
    Scope: x, 228 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln, Illustrationen
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    Raised on Mars : Reagan and the Power of Narrative -- Friendly Witness : Politics, Belief, and Narrative -- Cowboy Values : Donning a Gray Hat -- Up from the Depths : The Means and the Will -- Techno-Thriller Rising : How to Win the War -- Pebbles from Space : SDI, Cultural Division, and Strategic Success
  3. The politics of Richard Wright
    perspectives on resistance
    Contributor: Gordon, Jane Anna (Publisher); Zirakzadeh, Cyrus Ernesto (Publisher)
    Published: [2018]
    Publisher:  University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

    "A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history. His work championed intellectual freedom amid social and political chaos. Despite the popular and critical success... more

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    "A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history. His work championed intellectual freedom amid social and political chaos. Despite the popular and critical success of books such as Uncle Tom's Children (1938), Black Boy (1945), and Native Son (1941), Wright faced staunch criticism and even censorship throughout his career for the graphic sexuality, intense violence, and communist themes in his work. Yet, many political theorists have ignored his radical ideas. In The Politics of Richard Wright, an interdisciplinary group of scholars embraces the controversies surrounding Wright as a public intellectual and author. Several contributors explore how the writer mixed fact and fiction to capture the empirical and emotional reality of living as a black person in a racist world. Others examine the role of gender in Wright's canonical and lesser-known writing and the implications of black male vulnerability. They also discuss the topics of black subjectivity, internationalism and diaspora, and the legacy of and responses to slavery in America. Wright's contributions to American political thought remain vital and relevant today. The Politics of Richard Wright is an indispensable resource for students of American literature, culture, and politics who strive to interpret this influential writer's life and legacy" --

     
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  4. What Lies Between
    Void Aesthetics and Postwar Post-Politics
    Author: Tierney, Matt
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Rowman & Littlefield International, London

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1783480580; 1783480602; 9781783480586; 9781783480593; 9781783480609
    Series: Disruptions
    Subjects: American literature / 20th century / History and criticism; Criticism / United States; Literature / Aesthetics; Motion pictures / Aesthetics; Politics and culture / United States / History / 20th century; Politics and literature / United States / History / 20th century; Politics in motion pictures; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; American literature; Criticism; Literature / Aesthetics; Motion pictures / Aesthetics; Politics and culture; Politics and literature; Politics in motion pictures; Film; Geschichte; Literatur; Ästhetik; American literature; Politics and literature; Politics and culture; Literature; Motion pictures; Politics in motion pictures; Criticism; Film; Literatur; Ästhetik; Politik <Motiv>
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    Acknowledgments; Part 1 Void; Introduction; 1 Race and Other Voids; 2 Talking Politics in the Fertile Void; Part 2 Medium; 3 Medium upon Matter; 4 Medium upon Medium; Part 3 Void as Medium; 5 Melvillean Aesthetics, Postwar Post-Politics; 6 A Dumb Blankness Full of Meaning; Conclusion; References; Index

    This book explores the emergence of void aesthetics in fiction, film, and theory in the postwar period in order to assert the disruptive opportunity this aesthetic offers to the post-political present
  5. The politics and poetics of journalistic narrative
    the timely and the timeless
    Author: Frus, Phyllis
    Published: 1994
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    The Politics and Poetics of Journalistic Narrative investigates the textuality of all discourse, arguing that the ideologically charged distinction between 'journalism' and 'fiction' is socially constructed rather than natural. Phyllis Frus separates... more

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    The Politics and Poetics of Journalistic Narrative investigates the textuality of all discourse, arguing that the ideologically charged distinction between 'journalism' and 'fiction' is socially constructed rather than natural. Phyllis Frus separates literariness from aesthetic definitions, regarding it as a way of reading a text through its style to discover how it 'makes' reality. Frus examines narratives by Stephen Crane and Ernest Hemingway, showing that conventional understanding of the categories of fiction and non-fiction frequently determines the differences we perceive in texts. When journalists writing about historical events adopt the Hemingway-esque, understated narrative style that is commonly associated with both 'objectivity' and 'literature', it leads to an audience unable to face the historical and social conditions in which it must function. She interprets New Journalistic narratives, such as that of Truman Capote, as ways to counter the reification of modern consciousness to which both objective journalism and aestheticised fiction contribute

     
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  6. What lies between
    void aesthetics and postwar post-politics
    Author: Tierney, Matt
    Published: [2015]
    Publisher:  Rowman & Littlefield International, London

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781783480609; 1783480602; 9781783480586; 1783480580; 9781783480593; 1783480599
    Series: Disruptions
    Subjects: American literature / 20th century / History and criticism; Criticism / United States; Literature / Aesthetics; Motion pictures / Aesthetics; Politics and culture / United States / History / 20th century; Politics and literature / United States / History / 20th century; Politics in motion pictures; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; American literature; Criticism; Literature / Aesthetics; Motion pictures / Aesthetics; Politics and culture; Politics and literature; Politics in motion pictures; Film; Geschichte; Literatur; Ästhetik; American literature; Politics and literature; Politics and culture; Literature; Motion pictures; Politics in motion pictures; Criticism; Literatur; Film; Politik <Motiv>; Ästhetik
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Acknowledgments; Part 1 Void; Introduction; 1 Race and Other Voids; 2 Talking Politics in the Fertile Void; Part 2 Medium; 3 Medium upon Matter; 4 Medium upon Medium; Part 3 Void as Medium; 5 Melvillean Aesthetics, Postwar Post-Politics; 6 A Dumb Blankness Full of Meaning; Conclusion; References; Index

    This book explores the emergence of void aesthetics in fiction, film, and theory in the postwar period in order to assert the disruptive opportunity this aesthetic offers to the post-political present
  7. American playwriting and the anti-political prejudice
    twentieth and twenty-first century perspectives
    Author: Pressley, Nelson
    Published: [2014]; © 2014
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke ; New York, NY

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    ISBN: 9781137437051; 9781137415189
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    RVK Categories: HU 1778
    Edition: First published
    Series: Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
    Subjects: American drama / 20th century / History and criticism; American drama / 21st century / History and criticism; Politics and literature / United States / History / 20th century; Politics and literature / United States / History / 21st century; Literature and society / United States / History / 20th century; Literature and society / United States / History / 21st century; Politics in literature; American drama; Literature and society; Politics and literature; Politics in literature; Geschichte; Drama; Politik
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Introduction: No politics, please, we're American -- "Politics" -- The case of Kushner -- Reception and the anti-political prejudice in America -- State of the nation: U.K. and U.S. -- American shenanigans -- Wendy Wasserstein's Washington -- Erasing the playwright -- Conclusion
  8. American playwriting and the anti-political prejudice
    twentieth and twenty-first century perspectives
    Author: Pressley, Nelson
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY [u.a.]

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781137437051
    RVK Categories: HU 1778
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Series: Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
    Subjects: American drama / 20th century / History and criticism; American drama / 21st century / History and criticism; Politics and literature / United States / History / 20th century; Politics and literature / United States / History / 21st century; Literature and society / United States / History / 20th century; Literature and society / United States / History / 21st century; Politics in literature; American drama; Literature and society; Politics and literature; Politics in literature; Geschichte; Drama; Politik
    Scope: 193 S.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Introduction: No politics, please, we're American -- "Politics" -- The case of Kushner -- Reception and the anti-political prejudice in America -- State of the nation: U.K. and U.S. -- American shenanigans -- Wendy Wasserstein's Washington -- Erasing the playwright -- Conclusion
  9. The political aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot, and Pound
    Author: North, Michael
    Published: 1991
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    The politics of Yeats, Eliot and Pound have long been a source of discomfort and difficulty for literary critics and cultural historians. In The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot and Pound, Michael North offers a subtle reading of these issues by... more

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    The politics of Yeats, Eliot and Pound have long been a source of discomfort and difficulty for literary critics and cultural historians. In The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot and Pound, Michael North offers a subtle reading of these issues by linking aesthetic modernism with an attempt in all these writers to resolve basic contradictions in modern liberalism. The many contradictions of modernism, which is seen as inwardly personal yet impersonal, subjective and yet beholden to tradition, fragmented and yet whole, mark the reappearance in art of these political contradictions. Though Yeats, Eliot and Pound certainly attempted to resolve in art problems that could not be resolved in actuality, their very attempt resulted in a politicised aesthetic, one that confessed their inability to do so. Yet this aesthetic retained an element of critical power, precisely because it could not cover up the political contradictions that concerned it; the poetry remains a valid criticism of the status quo and even in its failure suggests the beginnings of an alternative

     
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    ISBN: 9780511570339
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    RVK Categories: HL 4940 ; HL 4945 ; HM 1191 ; HM 2455 ; HU 4785
    Subjects: Geschichte; Political poetry, American / History and criticism; Politics and literature / United States / History / 20th century; Politics and literature / Ireland / History / 20th century; Political poetry, English / History and criticism; Politics and literature / English-speaking countries; Moderne; Literatur; Politische Lyrik; Politisches Denken; Politik
    Other subjects: Yeats, W. B. / (William Butler) / 1865-1939 / Political and social views; Eliot, T. S. / (Thomas Stearns) / 1888-1965 / Political and social views; Pound, Ezra / 1885-1972 / Political and social views; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Eliot, T. S. (1888-1965); Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939)
    Scope: 1 online resource (viii, 241 pages)
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    Ch. I.W.B. Yeats: cultural nationalism: 1. The isle of freedom -- 2. The success and failure of the Irish revival -- 3. Major Gregory's responsibilities -- 4. The leaning tower -- 5. Senator and blueshirt -- Ch. 2. T.S. Eliot: conservativism: 1. Prufrock, philosophy, and politics -- 2. The critic and the crisis of historicism -- 3. The Waste Land -- 4. Eliot's conservatism -- 5. 'Little Gidding' -- Ch. 3. Ezra Pound: Fascism: 1. Politics and the luminous detail -- 2. History, value, and The Cantos -- 3. The fascist bargain -- 4. The Pisan Cantos
  10. Politics and form in postmodern poetry
    O'Hara, Bishop, Ashbery, and Merrill
    Author: Blasing, Mutlu Konuk
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Approaching post-World War II poetry from a postmodern critical perspective, this study challenges the prevailing assumption that experimental forms signify political opposition while traditional forms are politically conservative. Such essentialist... more

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    Approaching post-World War II poetry from a postmodern critical perspective, this study challenges the prevailing assumption that experimental forms signify political opposition while traditional forms are politically conservative. Such essentialist alignments of forms with extra-formal values, and the oppositional framework of innovation versus conservation that they yield, reflect modernist biases inappropriate for reading postwar poetry. Biasing defines postmodern poetry as a break with modernism's valorization of technique and its implicit collusion with technological progress. She shows that four major postwar poets - Frank O'Hara, Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and James Merrill (two traditional and two experimental) - cannot be read as politically conservative because formally traditional or as culturally oppositional because formally experimental. All of these poets acknowledge that no one form is more natural than another, and no given form grants them a superior position for judging cultural and political arrangements. Their work plays an important cultural role precisely by revealing that meanings and values do not inhere in forms but are always and irreducibly rhetorical

     
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    ISBN: 9780511570360
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    RVK Categories: HU 1740 ; HU 1769
    Series: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 94
    Subjects: Geschichte; American poetry / 20th century / History and criticism; Politics and literature / United States / History / 20th century; Political poetry, American / History and criticism; Postmodernism (Literature) / United States; Literary form / History / 20th century; Literarische Form; Politisches Denken; Postmoderne; Lyrik; Politische Einstellung
    Other subjects: Bishop, Elizabeth / 1911-1979 / Political and social views; Merrill, James / 1926-1995 / Political and social views; O'Hara, Frank / 1926-1966 / Political and social views; Ashbery, John / 1927- / Political and social views; Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979); Ashbery, John (1927-2017); Merrill, James Ingram (1926-1995); O'Hara, Frank (1926-1966)
    Scope: 1 online resource (x, 219 pages)
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    Introduction: Poetry after Modernism -- Frank O'Hara: "How Am I to Become a Legend?" -- Elizabeth Bishop: "Repeat, Repeat, Repeat; Revise, Revise, Revise" -- John Ashbery: "The Epidemic of the Way We Live Now" -- James Merrill: "Sour Windfalls of the Orchard Back of Us."
  11. Edith Wharton and the politics of race
    Author: Kassanoff, Jennie Ann
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Edith Wharton feared that the 'ill-bred', foreign and poor would overwhelm what was known as the American native elite. Drawing on a range of turn-of-the-century social documents, unpublished archival material and Wharton's major novels, Jennie... more

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    Edith Wharton feared that the 'ill-bred', foreign and poor would overwhelm what was known as the American native elite. Drawing on a range of turn-of-the-century social documents, unpublished archival material and Wharton's major novels, Jennie Kassanoff argues that a fuller appreciation of American culture and democracy becomes available through a sustained engagement with these controversial views. She pursues her theme through Wharton's spirited participation in a variety of turn-of-the-century discourses - from euthanasia and tourism to pragmatism and Native Americans - to produce a truly interdisciplinary study of this major American writer. Kassanoff locates Wharton squarely in the middle of the debates on race, class and democratic pluralism at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing on diverse cultural materials, she offers close interdisciplinary readings that will be of interest to scholars of American literature and culture

     
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    ISBN: 9780511485558
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    RVK Categories: HU 9275
    Series: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 143
    Subjects: Geschichte; Politics and literature / United States / History / 20th century; Race relations in literature; Immigrants in literature; Race in literature; Ethnische Beziehungen; Rassenpolitik
    Other subjects: Wharton, Edith / 1862-1937 / Political and social views; Wharton, Edith (1862-1937)
    Scope: 1 online resource (xii, 226 pages)
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  12. Voices of persuasion
    politics of representation in 1930s America
    Author: Staub, Michael E.
    Published: 1994
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    In this innovative study, Michael Staub recasts 1930s cultural history by analysing those genres so characteristic of the Depression era: Staub argues that several thirties writers - precisely because of their encounters with disinherited peoples -... more

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    In this innovative study, Michael Staub recasts 1930s cultural history by analysing those genres so characteristic of the Depression era: Staub argues that several thirties writers - precisely because of their encounters with disinherited peoples - anticipated the dilemmas poststructuralist theory would identify; an awareness of the ambiguousness of historical truth, and the impossibility of representing reality without being complicit in its distortion. New interpretations of such canonised authors as James Agee, John Dos Passos, Zora Neale Hurston, John G. Neihardt and Tille Olsen are coupled with critical discussions of previously little-known works of ethnography, journalism, oral history and polemical fiction. This book will interest all who are concerned with the problematic relationship between representation and social reality and their mutual inextricability

     
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    ISBN: 9780511666698
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    Series: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 78
    Subjects: Geschichte; American literature / 20th century / History and criticism; Politics and literature / United States / History / 20th century; Literature and society / United States / History / 20th century; Representative government and representation in literature; Persuasion (Rhetoric) / History / 20th century; Ethnic groups in literature; Minorities in literature; Stimme; Politik; Literatur; Rhetorik; Ethnische Gruppe; Nationale Minderheit; Repräsentation <Politik>
    Scope: 1 online resource (xi, 174 pages)
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    Spoken Testimony, Unwritten History -- John Dos Passos and James Agee: You Won't Hear It Nicely -- John Neihardt, William benson, and Ruth Underhill: Telling Native American History -- Zora Neale Hurston: Talking Black, Talking Back -- Tillie Olsen and the Communist Press: Giving the People Voice
  13. African American political thought and American culture
    the nation's struggle for racial justice
    Author: Zamalin, Alex
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY

    "This book demonstrates how certain African American writers radically re-envisioned core American ideals in order to make them serviceable for racial justice. Each writer's unprecedented reconstruction of key American values has the potential to... more

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    "This book demonstrates how certain African American writers radically re-envisioned core American ideals in order to make them serviceable for racial justice. Each writer's unprecedented reconstruction of key American values has the potential to energize American citizenship today"-- "In African American Political Thought and American Culture, Alex Zamalin argues that African American writers James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison expand the boundaries of American political thought and practice. These three writers uniquely reimagined core American ideals such as freedom, democratic commitment, and generosity, demonstrating that the practice of these values in everyday life, alongside the enactment of public policies and legislation, is essential for achieving racial justice. Through a historically and politically grounded reading of their work, Zamalin demonstrates that attending to these insights illuminates a previously unrecognized aspect of twentieth century African American political thought and intellectual life, and reveals a powerful and energizing source in the contemporary struggle for racial equality"-- 1. African American Political Thought and American Culture -- 2. James Baldwin's Reconstruction of American Freedom -- 3. Ralph Ellison's Democratic Vision -- 4. Toni Morrison's Beloved, Generosity and Racial Justice -- 5. Conclusion: Racial Justice Today

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781137528094
    RVK Categories: HU 1728
    Subjects: American literature / African American authors / History and criticism; African Americans / Intellectual life / 20th century; African Americans / Politics and government / 20th century; Politics and literature / United States / History / 20th century; Ideals (Philosophy) in literature; Race relations in literature; Social justice in literature
    Other subjects: Baldwin, James / 1924-1987 / Political and social views; Ellison, Ralph / Political and social views; Morrison, Toni / Political and social views
    Scope: xi, 192 S.
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    1. African American Political Thought and American Culture2. James Baldwin's Reconstruction of American Freedom -- 3. Ralph Ellison's Democratic Vision -- 4. Toni Morrison's Beloved, Generosity and Racial Justice -- 5. Conclusion: Racial Justice Today
  14. Reagan's war stories
    a Cold War presidency
    Author: Griffin, Benjamin
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland

    "Reagan's War Stories examines the relationship between Ronald Reagan, the public, and popular culture. From an overview of Reagan's youth and the pulp fiction he consumed, we get a sense of the future president's good vs. evil outlook. Carrying that... more

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    "Reagan's War Stories examines the relationship between Ronald Reagan, the public, and popular culture. From an overview of Reagan's youth and the pulp fiction he consumed, we get a sense of the future president's good vs. evil outlook. Carrying that over into Reagan's reading an choices as president, Griffin situates narrative at the center of Reagan's political formation and leadership, providing a compelling account of both Reagan's life, his presidency, and a lens into non-traditional strategy formulation"

     
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    Subjects: Politik; Weltbild; Literatur; Ethik
    Other subjects: Reagan, Ronald (1911-2004); Reagan, Ronald / Books and reading; Reagan, Ronald / Political and social views; Politics and literature / United States / History / 20th century; Politics and culture / United States / History / 20th century; Rhetoric / Political aspects / United States / History / 20th century; National security / United States / Decision making / History / 20th century; United States / Foreign relations / 1981-1989; Cold War in popular culture / United States; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political; Reagan, Ronald; Books and reading; Cold War (1945-1989) in popular culture; Diplomatic relations; National security / Decision making; Political and social views; Politics and culture; Politics and literature; Rhetoric / Political aspects; United States; 1900-1999; History
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    Raised on Mars : Reagan and the Power of Narrative -- Friendly Witness : Politics, Belief, and Narrative -- Cowboy Values : Donning a Gray Hat -- Up from the Depths : The Means and the Will -- Techno-Thriller Rising : How to Win the War -- Pebbles from Space : SDI, Cultural Division, and Strategic Success
  15. The ruse of repair
    US neoliberal empire and the turn from critique
    Author: Stuelke, Patricia
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham ; London

    "Since the 1990s, literary and queer studies scholars have eschewed Marxist and Foucauldian critique and hailed the reparative mode of criticism as a more humane and humble way of approaching literature and culture. The reparative turn has traveled... more

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    "Since the 1990s, literary and queer studies scholars have eschewed Marxist and Foucauldian critique and hailed the reparative mode of criticism as a more humane and humble way of approaching literature and culture. The reparative turn has traveled far beyond the academy, influencing how people imagine justice, solidarity, and social change. In The Ruse of Repair, Patricia Stuelke locates the reparative turn's hidden history in the failed struggle against US empire and neoliberal capitalism in the 1970s and 1980s. She shows how feminist, antiracist, and anti-imperialist liberation movements' visions of connection across difference, practices of self care, and other reparative modes of artistic and cultural production have unintentionally reinforced forms of neoliberal governance. At the same time, the US government and military, universities, and other institutions have appropriated and depoliticized these same techniques to sidestep addressing structural racism and imperialism in more substantive ways. In tracing the reparative turn's complicated and fraught genealogy, Stuelke questions reparative criticism's efficacy in ways that will prompt critics to reevaluate their own reading practices" Klappentext

     
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    ISBN: 9781478014263; 9781478013358
    RVK Categories: HU 1121 ; HU 1440 ; HU 1520
    Subjects: Literatur; Neoliberalismus
    Other subjects: Neoliberalism and literature / United States; American literature / 21st century / History and criticism; American literature / 20th century / History and criticism; Literature and society / United States / History / 20th century; Politics and literature / United States / History / 20th century
    Scope: x, 311 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Freedom to want -- "Debt work" -- Solidarity as settler absolution -- Veteran diversity, veteran asynchrony -- Invasion love plots and antiblack acoustics -- Conclusion: Against Repair
  16. <<The>> ruse of repair
    US neoliberal empire and the turn from critique
    Author: Stuelke, Patricia.
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham

    "Since the 1990s, literary and queer studies scholars have eschewed Marxist and Foucauldian critique and hailed the reparative mode of criticism as a more humane and humble way of approaching literature and culture. The reparative turn has traveled... more

     

    "Since the 1990s, literary and queer studies scholars have eschewed Marxist and Foucauldian critique and hailed the reparative mode of criticism as a more humane and humble way of approaching literature and culture. The reparative turn has traveled far beyond the academy, influencing how people imagine justice, solidarity, and social change. In The Ruse of Repair, Patricia Stuelke locates the reparative turn's hidden history in the failed struggle against US empire and neoliberal capitalism in the 1970s and 1980s. She shows how feminist, antiracist, and anti-imperialist liberation movements' visions of connection across difference, practices of self care, and other reparative modes of artistic and cultural production have unintentionally reinforced forms of neoliberal governance. At the same time, the US government and military, universities, and other institutions have appropriated and depoliticized these same techniques to sidestep addressing structural racism and imperialism in more substantive ways. In tracing the reparative turn's complicated and fraught genealogy, Stuelke questions reparative criticism's efficacy in ways that will prompt critics to reevaluate their own reading practices" Klappentext

     
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    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781478014263; 9781478013358
    RVK Categories: HU 1121 ; HU 1440 ; HU 1520
    Subjects: USA; Literatur; Neoliberalismus; Geschichte 1970-1990;
    Other subjects: Neoliberalism and literature / United States; American literature / 21st century / History and criticism; American literature / 20th century / History and criticism; Literature and society / United States / History / 20th century; Politics and literature / United States / History / 20th century
    Scope: x, 311 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Literaturverzeichnis Seite [265]-299

    Freedom to want -- "Debt work" -- Solidarity as settler absolution -- Veteran diversity, veteran asynchrony -- Invasion love plots and antiblack acoustics -- Conclusion: Against Repair
  17. The ruse of repair
    US neoliberal empire and the turn from critique
    Author: Stuelke, Patricia
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham

    "Since the 1990s, literary and queer studies scholars have eschewed Marxist and Foucauldian critique and hailed the reparative mode of criticism as a more humane and humble way of approaching literature and culture. The reparative turn has traveled... more

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    "Since the 1990s, literary and queer studies scholars have eschewed Marxist and Foucauldian critique and hailed the reparative mode of criticism as a more humane and humble way of approaching literature and culture. The reparative turn has traveled far beyond the academy, influencing how people imagine justice, solidarity, and social change. In The Ruse of Repair, Patricia Stuelke locates the reparative turn's hidden history in the failed struggle against US empire and neoliberal capitalism in the 1970s and 1980s. She shows how feminist, antiracist, and anti-imperialist liberation movements' visions of connection across difference, practices of self care, and other reparative modes of artistic and cultural production have unintentionally reinforced forms of neoliberal governance. At the same time, the US government and military, universities, and other institutions have appropriated and depoliticized these same techniques to sidestep addressing structural racism and imperialism in more substantive ways. In tracing the reparative turn's complicated and fraught genealogy, Stuelke questions reparative criticism's efficacy in ways that will prompt critics to reevaluate their own reading practices" Klappentext

     
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    ISBN: 9781478014263; 9781478013358
    RVK Categories: HU 1121 ; HU 1440 ; HU 1520
    Subjects: Neoliberalismus; Literatur
    Other subjects: Neoliberalism and literature / United States; American literature / 21st century / History and criticism; American literature / 20th century / History and criticism; Literature and society / United States / History / 20th century; Politics and literature / United States / History / 20th century
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    Literaturverzeichnis Seite 265-299

    Freedom to want -- "Debt work" -- Solidarity as settler absolution -- Veteran diversity, veteran asynchrony -- Invasion love plots and antiblack acoustics -- Conclusion: Against Repair
  18. "Beyond this narrow now" or, delimitations, of W. E. B. Du Bois
    Author: Chandler, Nahum Dimitri
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham

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  19. Neoliberalism and contemporary American literature
    Contributor: Kennedy, Liam (Publisher); Shapiro, Stephen (Publisher)
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  Dartmouth College Press, Hanover, New Hampshire

    "How has American literature responded to the dominance of neoliberalism? Does it make sense to speak of an "American" literature in neoliberal times? Can literature function as either a neutral category or a privileged narrative of national... more

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    "How has American literature responded to the dominance of neoliberalism? Does it make sense to speak of an "American" literature in neoliberal times? Can literature function as either a neutral category or a privileged narrative of national imagination in a time when paradigms of the nation-state and of liberal capitalism are undergoing a prolonged shift? In the United States, as elsewhere, the association between the nation-state, liberal capitalism, and literary form has a long history, reflecting determinate relations between writer and reader within imagined national community. As this community loses its symbolic efficiency in the age of neoliberal capital, the boundaries and possibilities of literary production and representation shift. This collection of essays examines how American literature both models and interrogates the neoliberal present. Has literary realism been exhausted as a narrative form? Can contemporary literature still imagine either the end of capitalism or an alternative to it?"--Back cover

     
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    Contributor: Kennedy, Liam (Publisher); Shapiro, Stephen (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781512603613; 9781512603606
    RVK Categories: HU 1520
    Series: Re-mapping the transnational : a Dartmouth series in American studies
    Subjects: Neoliberalismus; Literatur
    Other subjects: American literature / 20th century / History and criticism; American literature / 21st century / History and criticism; Neoliberalism / United States; Politics and literature / United States / History / 20th century; Politics and literature / United States / History / 21st century; Literature and society / United States / History / 20th century; Literature and society / United States / History / 21st century; Neoliberalism in popular culture; Liberalism in literature; American literature; Liberalism in literature; Literature and society; Neoliberalism; Neoliberalism in popular culture; Politics and literature; United States; 1900-2099; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
    Scope: 238 Seiten, 24 cm
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    Introduction / Liam Kennedy and Stephen Shapiro -- Literature, theory, and the temporalities of neoliberalism / Eli Jelly-Schapiro -- Foucault, neoliberalism, algorithmic governmentality, and the loss of liberal culture / Stephen Shapiro -- The flamethrowers and the making of modern art / Myka Tucker-Abramson -- "On the very edge of fiction" : risk, representation, and the subject of contemporary fiction in Ben lerner's 10:04 / Hamilton Carroll -- Fictions of human capital; or, Redemption of neoliberal times / Christian P. Haines -- The uncanny re-worlding of the post-9/11 American novel, Joseph O'Neill's Netherland; or, The cultural fantasy work of neoliberalism / Donald E. Pease -- Desert stories : liberal anxieties and the neoliberal novel / Liam Kennedy -- Beyond precarity : ideologies of labor in anti-trafficking crime fiction / Caren Irr -- "Terminal insomnia" : sleeplessness, labor, and neoliberal ecology in Karen Russell's Sleep donation and Alex Rivera's Sleep dealer / Sharae Deckard -- Post-capitalism in space : Kim Stanley Robinson's utopian science fiction / Dan Hassler-Forest
  20. The politics of Richard Wright
    perspectives on resistance
    Contributor: Gordon, Jane Anna (Publisher); Zirakzadeh, Cyrus Ernesto (Publisher)
    Published: [2018]
    Publisher:  University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

    "A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history. His work championed intellectual freedom amid social and political chaos. Despite the popular and critical success... more

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    "A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history. His work championed intellectual freedom amid social and political chaos. Despite the popular and critical success of books such as Uncle Tom's Children (1938), Black Boy (1945), and Native Son (1941), Wright faced staunch criticism and even censorship throughout his career for the graphic sexuality, intense violence, and communist themes in his work. Yet, many political theorists have ignored his radical ideas. In The Politics of Richard Wright, an interdisciplinary group of scholars embraces the controversies surrounding Wright as a public intellectual and author. Several contributors explore how the writer mixed fact and fiction to capture the empirical and emotional reality of living as a black person in a racist world. Others examine the role of gender in Wright's canonical and lesser-known writing and the implications of black male vulnerability. They also discuss the topics of black subjectivity, internationalism and diaspora, and the legacy of and responses to slavery in America. Wright's contributions to American political thought remain vital and relevant today. The Politics of Richard Wright is an indispensable resource for students of American literature, culture, and politics who strive to interpret this influential writer's life and legacy" --

     
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  21. The moderate imagination
    the political thought of John Updike and the decline of New Deal liberalism
    Author: Fromer, Yoav
    Published: [2020]; © 2020
    Publisher:  University Press of Kansas, Lawrence

    Introduction -- The man in the middle -- The liberal education of John Updike -- The poorhouse fair: The liberal state and Its discontents -- Family matters: Therapeutic liberalism, consumer capitalism, and the decline of the family in Rabbit, Run --... more

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    Introduction -- The man in the middle -- The liberal education of John Updike -- The poorhouse fair: The liberal state and Its discontents -- Family matters: Therapeutic liberalism, consumer capitalism, and the decline of the family in Rabbit, Run -- Sleeping together, bowling alone: Couples and the decline of civic engagement -- Things don't mix: Rabbit redux and the unraveling of postwar liberalism -- Conclusion: Liberalism redux "One of the most pressing questions to arise in the aftermath of the 2016 US presidential election concerned the white working class's so-called "abandonment" of the Democratic Party, especially in the Rust Belt, and their surprising embrace of Donald Trump. To better understand this development, The Moderate Imagination turns to an unlikely source: the writings of the novelist John Updike (1932-2009), which reveal Updike's insightful political imagination and shed light on the decline of New Deal liberalism. Updike has long been viewed as a gifted writer, poet, and essayist whose sensitivity to the quotidian combined with an extraordinary talent for realism enabled him to gracefully chronicle the postwar experience. But just as much as he was a man of letters, this book advances the counterintuitive notion that he was also an ardent man of ideas-political ideas. According to Yoav Fromer, Updike's fiction should not be read merely as a reflection of the postwar era but also as an investigation into the liberal political culture that helped define it"--

     
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    Subjects: Politisches Denken; Liberalisierung
    Other subjects: Updike, John (1932-2009); Updike, John / Political and social views; Politics and literature / United States / History / 20th century
    Scope: x, 290 Seiten
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  22. Credit culture
    the politics of money in the American Novel of the 1970s
    Author: Marsh, Nicky
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    This book offers a new reading of the relationship between money, culture and literature in America in the 1970s. The gold standard ended at the start of this decade, a moment which is routinely treated as a catalyst for the era of postmodern... more

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    This book offers a new reading of the relationship between money, culture and literature in America in the 1970s. The gold standard ended at the start of this decade, a moment which is routinely treated as a catalyst for the era of postmodern abstraction. This book provides an alternative narrative, one that traces the racialized and gendered histories of credit offered by the intertextual narratives of writers such as E.L Doctorow, Toni Morrison, Marilyn French, William Gaddis, Thomas Pynchon and Don De Lillo. It argues that money in the 1970s is better read through a narrative of political consolidation than formal rupture as these histories foreground the closing down, rather than opening up, of serious debates about what American money should be and who it should serve. These novels and this moment remain important because they alert us to imagine the alternative histories of credit that were imaginatively proposed but never realized

     
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781108871211
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    Subjects: American fiction / 20th century / History and criticism; Money in literature; Finance in literature; Politics in literature; Economics and literature / United States / History / 20th century; Politics and literature / United States / History / 20th century
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 209 Seiten)
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    Introduction : Money in the Disciplines ; Postmodern Times: E.L Doctorow's Ragtime -- Chapter 1. No Place Like Home: The Cultures of American Credit -- Chapter 2. Don DeLillo and American Credit -- Chapter 3. William Gaddis and Corporate Credit -- Chapter 4. When Women Counted: Feminism, Fiction and the Money Economy -- Chapter 5. Toni Morrison and The Promise to Pay -- Chapter 6. Dorothy's Endless Return: Sacrifice and Gender in the novels of Thomas Pynchon
  23. The politics of Richard Wright
    perspectives on resistance
    Contributor: Gordon, Jane Anna (Publisher); Zirakzadeh, Cyrus Ernesto (Publisher)
    Published: [2018]
    Publisher:  University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

    "A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history. His work championed intellectual freedom amid social and political chaos. Despite the popular and critical success... more

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    "A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history. His work championed intellectual freedom amid social and political chaos. Despite the popular and critical success of books such as Uncle Tom's Children (1938), Black Boy (1945), and Native Son (1941), Wright faced staunch criticism and even censorship throughout his career for the graphic sexuality, intense violence, and communist themes in his work. Yet, many political theorists have ignored his radical ideas. In The Politics of Richard Wright, an interdisciplinary group of scholars embraces the controversies surrounding Wright as a public intellectual and author. Several contributors explore how the writer mixed fact and fiction to capture the empirical and emotional reality of living as a black person in a racist world. Others examine the role of gender in Wright's canonical and lesser-known writing and the implications of black male vulnerability. They also discuss the topics of black subjectivity, internationalism and diaspora, and the legacy of and responses to slavery in America. Wright's contributions to American political thought remain vital and relevant today. The Politics of Richard Wright is an indispensable resource for students of American literature, culture, and politics who strive to interpret this influential writer's life and legacy" --

     
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  24. The other black list
    the African American literary and cultural left of the 1950s
    Author: Washington, Mary Helen
    Published: [2014]
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    "Mary Helen Washington recovers the vital role of 1950s leftist politics in the works and lives of modern African American writers and artists. While most histories of McCarthyism focus on the devastation of the blacklist and the intersection of... more

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    "Mary Helen Washington recovers the vital role of 1950s leftist politics in the works and lives of modern African American writers and artists. While most histories of McCarthyism focus on the devastation of the blacklist and the intersection of leftist politics and American culture, few include the activities of radical writers and artists from the Black Popular Front. Washington's work incorporates these black intellectuals back into our understanding of mid-twentieth-century African American literature and art and expands our understanding of the creative ferment energizing all of America during this period. Mary Helen Washington reads four representative writers--Lloyd Brown, Frank London Brown, Alice Childress, and Gwendolyn Brooks--and surveys the work of the visual artist Charles White. She traces resonances of leftist ideas and activism in their artistic achievements and follows their balanced critique of the mainstream liberal and conservative political and literary spheres. Her study recounts the targeting of African American as well as white writers during the McCarthy era, reconstructs the events of the 1959 Black Writers' Conference in New York, and argues for the ongoing influence of the Black Popular Front decades after it folded. Defining the contours of a distinctly black modernism and its far-ranging radicalization of American politics and culture, Washington fundamentally reorients scholarship on African American and Cold War literature and life."--Publisher's description

     
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    ISBN: 9780231152716
    Subjects: American literature / African American authors / History and criticism; American literature / 20th century / History and criticism; Politics and literature / United States / History / 20th century; African Americans / Intellectual life / 20th century; Right and left (Political science) in literature; Cold War in literature; African Americans / Intellectual life; American literature; American literature / African American authors; Cold War in literature; Politics and literature; Right and left (Political science) in literature; Litteratur; Amerikansk litteratur; Politik; Geschichte; Schwarze. USA; Die Linke; Literatur; Schwarze
    Scope: xviii, 347 pages, illustrations, 24 cm
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    Lloyd L. Brown: black fire in the cold war -- Charles White: "Robeson with a brush and pencil" -- Alice Childress: black, red, and feminist -- When Gwendolyn Brooks wore red -- Frank London Brown: the end of the Black Cultural Front and the turn toward civil rights -- 1959: Spycraft and the black literary left -- Epilogue: The example of Julian Mayfield
  25. Postwar American fiction and the rise of modern conservatism
    a literary history, 1945-2008
    Author: Santin, Bryan Michael
    Published: [2021]; © 2021
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Bryan M. Santin examines over a half-century of intersection between American fiction and postwar conservatism. He traces the shifting racial politics of movement conservatism to argue that contemporary perceptions of literary form and aesthetic... more

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    Bryan M. Santin examines over a half-century of intersection between American fiction and postwar conservatism. He traces the shifting racial politics of movement conservatism to argue that contemporary perceptions of literary form and aesthetic value are intrinsically connected to the rise of the American Right. Instead of casting postwar conservatives as cynical hustlers or ideological fanatics, Santin shows how the long-term rhetorical shift in conservative notions of literary value and prestige reveal an aesthetic antinomy between high culture and low culture. This shift, he argues, registered and mediated the deeper foundational antinomy structuring postwar conservatism itself: the stable social order of traditionalism and the creative destruction of free-market capitalism. Postwar conservatives produced, in effect, an ambivalent double register in the discourse of conservative literary taste that sought to celebrate neo-aristocratic manifestations of cultural capital while condemning newer, more progressive manifestations revolving around racial and ethnic diversity

     
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    ISBN: 9781108961974
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    Series: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 186
    Subjects: American fiction / 20th century / History and criticism; Conservatism / United States / History / 20th century; Politics and literature / United States / History / 20th century; Right and left (Political science) in literature; Conservatism in literature; Konservativismus; Roman
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 295 Seiten)