Protest and The Body in Melville, Dos Passos, and Hurston

Informationen zum Autor Thomas McGlamery received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He currently teaches at the University of Wisconsin--Madison. Klappentext This book analyzes the work of Herman Melville, John Dos Passos, and Zora Neale Hurston alongside biographical materials and discourses on the body. Thomas McGlamery views each of these authors' literary output as an effort to "work through" the political meanings associated with the body, examining how they negotiate identities of class, gender, race, sexuality, and age. Zusammenfassung This book analyzes the work of Herman Melville, John Dos Passos, and Zora Neale Hurston alongside biographical materials and discourses on the body. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Reading a Man Like a Book: Bodies and Texts in Billy Budd Problems of the Body Body Politics Anxious Readings Embodied Texts and Textualized Bodies Fathers, Sons, Tensions Chapter Three: Producing Remembrance: John Dos Passos's Body in the Text Anatomy and a Mid-Life Crisis Vagabardage The (Un-)American Body Doing the People in Indifferent Voice Remembering the Body of an American A Tramp or a Middle-Class Intellectual-It's as Bad Either Way Chapter Four: How It Feels to Be Not-So-Young, Gifted, and Black: Passing and De change uh Life in Their Eyes Were Watching God Hurston's Novel of Passing De Change uh Life Notes Bibliography Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Thomas Mcglamery, Tom McGlamery, McGlamery Thomas
• Verlag: Routledge Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 18.10.2004
• EAN: 9780415970631
• ISBN: 978-0-415-97063-1
• Abmessung: 160 mm x 240 mm x 15 mm
• Serien: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory; Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form