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Apostles of modernity : American writers in the age of development /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reynolds, Guy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2008]
Subjects:
Foreign countries in literature.
Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century.
American literature > Foreign influences.
Internationalism in literature.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table 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.