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Hip figures : a literary history of the Democratic Party / Michael Szalay.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Szalay, Michael, 1967-
- Series:
- Post*45
- Post 45
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democratic Party (U.S.)--History--20th century.
- Democratic Party (U.S.).
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Politics and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Politics and literature.
- African Americans in literature.
- Popular culture in literature.
- Liberalism in literature.
- Race in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Hip Figures dramatically alters our understanding of the postwar American novel by showing how it mobilized fantasies of black style on behalf of the Democratic Party. Fascinated by jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, novelists such as Norman Mailer, Ralph Ellison, John Updike, and Joan Didion turned to hip culture to negotiate the voter realignments then reshaping national politics. Figuratively transporting white professionals and managers into the skins of African Americans, these novelists and many others insisted on their own importance to the ambitions of a party dependent on coalition-building but not fully committed to integration. Arbiters of hip for readers who weren't, they effectively branded and marketed the liberalism of their moment—and ours.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Burden in Blackface
- 2 Copycats
- 3 Selling JFK in The Manchurian Candidate and Rabbit, Run
- 4 Ralph Ellison’s Unfinished Second Skin
- 5 White-Collar Liberation and The Confessions of Nat Turner
- 6 Countercultural Capital, from Alaska to Disneyland
- Conclusion: Joan Didion and the Death of the Hip Figure
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-309) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804776356
- 0804776350
- 9780804782616
- 080478261X
- OCLC:
- 809771013
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