Du Bois's Telegram : Literary Resistance and State Containment / Juliana Spahr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spahr, Juliana, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Political aspects.

American literature.

Politics and literature--United States.

Politics and literature.

Nationalism and literature--United States.

Nationalism and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Taking her cue from W. E. B. Du Bois, Juliana Spahr explores how state interests have shaped U.S. literature. What is the relationship between literature and politics? Can writing be revolutionary? Can art be autonomous or is escape from nations and nationalisms impossible? As her sobering study affirms, aesthetic resistance is easily domesticated.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. Turn of the Twenty-First Century: A Possible Literature of Resistance

2. Stubborn Nationalism: Example One, Avant Garde Modernism

3. Stubborn Nationalism: Example Two, Movement Literatures

4. Turn of the Twenty-First Century: The National Tradition

Conclusion

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Feb 2019)

ISBN:

9780674988811

0674988817

9780674988835

0674988833

OCLC:

1056952298