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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.

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Description 268 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-255) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780803213777 (cloth : alk. paper)
0803213778 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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