Apostles of modernity : American writers in the age of development

Apostles of modernity : American writers in the age of development / Guy Reynolds.

Apostles of Modernity offers an original, in-depth study of the literary manifestations of this period of globalism in novels, memoirs, essays, reportage, and political commentary. Through close readings of texts Reynolds revisits and reassesses U.S. internationalism, showing how writers and intelle...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reynolds, Guy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
1900-1999
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.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
Foreign countries in literature
Internationalism in literature
Literature and society
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of 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.

Similar Items