Theoretical Approach to Modern American History and Literature
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- ISBN 9781785272592
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 153 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jan 2020
- Publisher: Anthem Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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This book reconfigures the history of modern America, showing how multiple and, at times, vulnerable social, economic, literary, and political movements, levels, divisions, and conditions such as the emergent middle class, the labor movement, the Progressive Movement, the socialist and communist parties, the Women’s movements, the NAACP, the Garvey movement, Asian and Native American resistance movements, writers, artists, and intellectuals seized upon social, gender, economic, and racial inequalities and challenged a singularly defined modern America. This book re-represents the modern American novel, accenting the different critical literary voices that come out of the mainstream consumer society but also out of the various unequal social, economic, gender, and political movements and situations. In including racial, gender, sexual, colonial, class, and ethnic others—who reject the rigidity, the repression, the racial and ethnic stereotyping, the external and internal colonialism, the complication/rejection of the past/nature, and the violence of the institutionalized, conformist norm—in a discussion of the modern American novel, it effects a fundamental recasting of the modern Americanist paradigm, one that is de-centered, richer, more complex, and more diverse.
W. Lawrence Hogue is the John and Rebecca Moores Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Houston and the author of many books, including The African American Male, Writing, and Difference (2003), Postmodern American Literature and Its Other (2009), and Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Narratives (2013).
