Title A theoretical approach to modern American history and literature : an issue of reconfiguration and re-representation / W. Lawrence Hogue

Published London : Anthem Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource Series Anthem symploke studies in theory Contents Cover -- Front Matter -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chapters One-Ten -- Chapter One Capitalism, Imperialism, Race and Ethnicity, the Repressive State and the Ideological State Apparatuses, and the Formation of Modern America -- Notes -- Chapter Two Counterformations to Capitalism, Imperialism, Modern America and its Repressive State and Ideological State Apparatuses, and the Formation of Modern American Literature, Art, and Culture -- Notes Chapter Three Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt: An Ethnographic Look at the Middle-Class, Individuated Subject in America in the 1920s -- Notes -- Chapter Four Nick Carraway's Complicated Retreat from Modernity and the Construction of the Modern Gatsby in Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby -- Notes -- Chapter Five The African American Subaltern, Rearticulated African American Folklore, Modernity, and Hurston's their Eyes were Watching God -- Notes -- Chapter Six Trickster Narrator, Multinarrative Perspectives, and D'arcy Mcnickle's the Surrounded -- Notes Chapter Seven Intersectionality, Inoperative Community, Trauma, Social Justice, and Agnes Smedley's Daughter of Earth -- Notes -- Chapter Eight Theosophy, Plural Subjectivity, and Djuna Barnes's Nightwood -- Notes -- Chapter Nine Exile, Cosmopolitanism, Modernity, and Younghill Kang's East Goes West -- Notes -- Chapter Ten Conclusion -- End Matter -- Bibliography -- Index Summary A Theoretical Approach to Modern American History and Literature reconfigures the history of modern America by showing how multiple and, at times, vulnerable social, economic, literary and political movements, levels, divisions and conditions such as the emergent middle class, the labor movement, the Progressive Movement, the socialist and communist parties, the Women's movements, the NAACP, the Garvey movement, Asian and Native American resistance movements, writers, artists and intellectuals seized upon social, gender, economic and racial inequalities and challenged a singularly defined modern America. This book represents the modern American novel by accenting the different critical literary voices that come out of the mainstream consumer society but also out of the various unequal social, economic, gender, and political movements and situations. In including racial, gender, sexual, colonial, class and ethnic others;who reject the rigidity; the repression; the racial and ethnic stereotyping; the external and internal colonialism; the complication/rejection of the past/nature; and the violence of the institutionalized, conformist norm;in a discussion of the modern American novel, it effects a fundamental recasting of the modern Americanist paradigm, one that is decentered, richer, more complex and more diverse Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 16, 2020) Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature SUBJECT United States -- History -- 1919-1933. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140298 Subject United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781785272608 1785272608 9781785272615 1785272616

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