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Complicity in American Literature after 1945 offers a literary and intellectual history of the idea of complicity in the United States, proposing a new frame for understanding American literature in the period.
List of contents
- Introduction: Writing Complicity
- Part I. Complicity after World War Two
- 1: Unbearable Situations: Sartre and Arendt
- 2: Complicit Atmospheres: Anti-Semitism and Midcentury Fiction
- 3: The Fact of Representation: Metafiction, Coordination, and Denazification
- Part II. The Sixties and After
- 4: New Journalism and the Implicated Subject
- 5: James Baldwin, Liberalism, and Survivor Guilt
- 6: The Complicities of Black Crime Fiction
- Conclusion: Complicity Now
About the author
Will Norman is a Reader in American literature and culture at the University of Kent. He has been a Fulbright Scholar and Leverhulme Research Fellow. He is the author of
Transatlantic Aliens: Modernism, Exile, and Culture in Midcentury America (2016) and
Nabokov, History, and the Texture of Time (2012). His articles have appeared in
American Literature,
Post*45,
Modernism/modernity, Comparative Literature Studies, and various other venues. He is co-editor at the
Journal of American Studies.
Summary
Complicity in American Literature after 1945 offers a literary and intellectual history of the idea of complicity in the United States, proposing a new frame for understanding American literature in the period.
