The Oxford handbook of twentieth-century American literature / edited by Leslie Bow, Russ Castronovo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bow, Leslie, 1962- editor.

Castronovo, Russ, 1965- editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks

Oxford handbooks online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Handbook of twentieth-century American literature

Twentieth-century American literature

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.

Summary:

A collection of essays situating twentieth-century American literature in a global frame, this volume reads US literature through the a range of critical lenses, including critical race and indigenous studies, disability and care studies, environmental criticism, gender analysis and media studies.

Contents:

Modernism's Cares: Reading For and With / Rachel Adams

The Last Puritan in Shanghai: The Faded Romance of China Trade Finance and the Queerly Transnational Melancholy of Emily Hahn's Wartime Opium Smoking / Kendall Johnson

Constructing Whiteness: Faulkner, Ferber, and the American Racial Imagination / Heidi Kim

Colonization to Climate Change: American Literature and a Planet on Fire / John Levi Barnard

Black Literary History and the Problem of Identification in Ishmael Reed's <i>Mumbo Jumbo</i> / Aida Levy-Hussen

Andrea Lee's Europe: Race, Interracial Desire, and Transnationalism / Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus

Cultural Memory Studies and the <i>Beloved</i> Paradigm: From Rememory to Abolition in the Afterlives of Slavery / Michael Rothberg

Nuclear Poetry: Cultural Containment and Translational Leakage in Robert Lowell's <i>For the Union Dead</i> / Simon van Schalkwyk

The Hidden Voice: Indigenous Experience and Authenticity in Twentieth-Century American Literature / Sean Teuton

The Liberal Imagination Revisited: Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, and the Crisis of Democracy / Johannes Voelz

Twentieth-Century Western Man of Color: Richard Wright, Race, and Rootlessness / Yogita Goyal

Asian Americans in the Novel of Late Capitalism: Samuel R. Delany's <i>The Mad Man</i> and Kevin Kwan's <i>Crazy Rich Asians</i> / Cynthia Wu

'Warm with Tipsy Embraces': Allen Ginsberg, the US-China Writers' Conferences, and Queer Internationationalism / Harilaos Stecopoulos

Unidentified Flying Objects: Conceptualism, Interpretation, and Adrian Piper / Rachel Jane Carroll

Precarious Forms: Reading Labor in and Beyond the Neoliberal Novel / Joseph B. Entin

The Book of Love is Long and Boring: Reading Aloud, Care Work, and Children's Literature / Elizabeth Freeman

Of Canons and Cabinets: Indigenous Bodies, Epistemological Spectacle, and an Unusual Indian in the Cupboard / Becca Gercken

Faulkner at the Speed of History / Mark Goble

Where Border Meets Narrative, Where Body Meets Word: The Animality of Border Subjectivity / Bernadine Hernández

'Jumpin' with Symphony Sid': Post-1945 American Literature and Radio / Lisa Hollenbach.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 1, 2022).

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Print version :

ISBN:

9780191862717

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