{"product_id":"american-novel-after-ideology-1961-2000","title":"American Novel After Ideology, 1961–2000","description":"Claims of ideology’s end are, on the one hand, performative denials of ideology’s inability to end; while, on the other hand, paradoxically, they also reiterate an idea that ‘ending’ is simply what all ideologies eventually do. Situating her work around the intersecting publications of Daniel Bell’s \u003ci\u003eThe End of Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e (1960) and J.D. Salinger’s \u003ci\u003eFranny and Zooey \u003c\/i\u003e(1961), Laurie Rodrigues argues that American novels express this paradox through nuanced applications of non-realist strategies, distorting realism in manners similar to ideology’s distortions of reality, history, and belief. \n\nReflecting the astonishing cultural variety of this period, \u003ci\u003eThe American Novel After Ideology, 1961 - 2000\u003c\/i\u003e examines \u003ci\u003eFranny and Zooey,\u003c\/i\u003e Carlene Hatcher Polite’s \u003ci\u003eThe Flagellants \u003c\/i\u003e(1967), Leslie Marmon Silko’s \u003ci\u003eAlmanac of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e (1991), and Philip Roth’s \u003ci\u003eThe Human Stain\u003c\/i\u003e (2001) alongside the various discussions around ideology with which they intersect. Each novel’s plotless narratives, dissolving subjectivities, and cultural codes organize the texts’ peculiar relations to the post-ideological age, suggesting an aesthetic return of the repressed.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54218292363608,"sku":"9781501361869","price":102.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781501361869__676ef7a491d0f.jpg?v=1741157694","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/american-novel-after-ideology-1961-2000","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}