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A reconfiguration of modern American history, showing how multiple movements at different times challenged a singularly defined modern America, and a re-representation of the modern American novel, accenting the different critical literary voices to effect a fundamental recasting of the modern Americanist paradigm.
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Preface and Acknowledgments; Chapter One Capitalism, Imperialism, Race and Ethnicity, the Repressive State and the Ideological State Apparatuses, and the Formation of Modern America; 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; Chapter Three Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt : An Ethnographic Look at the Middle- Class, Individuated Subject in America in the 1920s; Chapter Four Nick Carraway's Complicated Retreat from Modernity and the Construction of the Modern Gatsby in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby; Chapter Five The African American Subaltern, Rearticulated African American Folklore, Modernity, and Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God; Chapter Six Trickster Narrator, Multinarrative Perspectives, and D'Arcy McNickle's The Surrounded; Chapter Seven Intersectionality, Inoperative Community, Trauma, Social Justice, and Agnes Smedley's Daughter of Earth; Chapter Eight Theosophy, Plural Subjectivity, and Djuna Barnes's Nightwood; Chapter Nine Exile, Cosmopolitanism, Modernity, and Younghill Kang's East Goes West; Chapter Ten Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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W. Lawrence Hogue is the John and Rebecca Moores Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Houston and the author of many books, including The African American Male, Writing, and Difference (2003), Postmodern American Literature and Its Other (2009), and Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Narratives (2013).
