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Apostles of modernity American writers in the age of development

Title
Apostles of modernity [electronic resource] : American writers in the age of development / Guy Reynolds.
Author
Reynolds, Guy.
Publication
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.

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1 online resource (268 p.)
Uniform Title
Apostles of modernity (Online)
Alternative Title
Apostles of modernity (Online)
Subject
  • American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Internationalism in literature
  • American literature > Foreign influences
  • Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century
  • Foreign countries in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-255) and index.
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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.
LCCN
2007035398
OCLC
ssj0000104516
Author
Reynolds, Guy.
Title
Apostles of modernity [electronic resource] : American writers in the age of development / Guy Reynolds.
Imprint
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-255) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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