Complicity in American Literature After 1945 - Liberalism, Race, and Colonialism

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.

Sommario

• 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

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Will Norman, Will (Reader in American Literature and Cu Norman, Norman Will
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 10.04.2025
• EAN: 9780198954736
• ISBN: 978-0-19-895473-6
• Pagine: 224
• Serie: Oxford Studies in American Literary History
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Filosofia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Europe, FICTION / Literary, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Colonialism & imperialism, Second World War, The Holocaust, Literature: history & criticism, Colonialism and imperialism, c 1940 to c 1949, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Literature: history and criticism, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater