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Complicity in American literature after 1945 : liberalism, race, and colonialism /

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"Complicity in American Literature after 1945 offers a literary and intellectual history of the idea of complicity in the United States, proposing a new frame for understanding American literature in the period. The term "complicity" derives etymologically from the Latin complicāre, w...

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Main Author: Norman, Will, 1978- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Subjects:
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Authors, American > 20th century > Political and social views.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Écrivains américains > 20e siècle > Pensée politique et sociale.
Holocaust.
HISTORY.
LITERARY CRITICISM.
Epistemology.
PHILOSOPHY.
Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE.
Literature: history & criticism.
Literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Writing Complicity
  • Part I. Complicity after World War Two. 1. Unbearable Situations: Sartre and Arendt ; 2. Complicit Atmospheres: Anti-Semitism and Midcentury Fiction ; 3. The Fact of Representation: Metafiction, Coordination, and Denazification
  • Part II. The Sixties and After. 4. New Journalism and the Implicated Subject ; 5. James Baldwin, Liberalism, and Survivor Guilt ; 6. The Complicities of Black Crime Fiction
  • Conclusion: Complicity Now.