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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reynolds, Guy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Internationalism in literature.

American literature--Foreign influences.

Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.

Literature and society.

Foreign countries in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 intellectuals engaged with a cluster of topics: decolonization, the rise of the Third World, Islamic difference, the end of European empires, China's enduring significance, and transatlantic and cosmopolitan identities. Throughout, the ideals of the United States as ""apostle of modernity"" and sponsor 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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-255) and index.

ISBN:

9786611733971

9781281733979

1281733970

9780803216464

0803216467

OCLC:

476135418