Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Chapter One Capitalism, Imperialism, Race and Ethnicity, the Repressive State and the Ideological State Apparatuses, and the Formation of Modern America
- Chapter Two Counterformations to Capitalism, Imperialism, Modern America and Its Repressive State and Ideological State Apparatuses, and the Formation of Modern American Literature, Art, and Culture
- Chapter Three Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt: An Ethnographic Look at the Middle-Class, Individuated Subject in America in the 1920s
- Chapter Four Nick Carraway's Complicated Retreat from Modernity and the Construction of the Modern Gatsby in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
- Chapter Five The African American Subaltern, Rearticulated African American Folklore, Modernity, and Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Chapter Six Trickster Narrator, Multinarrative Perspectives, and D'Arcy McNickle's The Surrounded
- Chapter Seven Intersectionality, Inoperative Community, Trauma, Social Justice, and Agnes Smedley's Daughter of Earth
- Chapter Eight Theosophy, Plural Subjectivity, and Djuna Barnes's Nightwood
- Chapter Nine Exile, Cosmopolitanism, Modernity, and Younghill Kang's East Goes West
- Chapter Ten Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Chapter One Capitalism, Imperialism, Race and Ethnicity, the Repressive State and the Ideological State Apparatuses, and the Formation of Modern America
- Chapter Two Counterformations to Capitalism, Imperialism, Modern America and Its Repressive State and Ideological State Apparatuses, and the Formation of Modern American Literature, Art, and Culture
- Chapter Three Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt: An Ethnographic Look at the Middle-Class, Individuated Subject in America in the 1920s
- Chapter Four Nick Carraway's Complicated Retreat from Modernity and the Construction of the Modern Gatsby in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
- Chapter Five The African American Subaltern, Rearticulated African American Folklore, Modernity, and Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Chapter Six Trickster Narrator, Multinarrative Perspectives, and D'Arcy McNickle's The Surrounded
- Chapter Seven Intersectionality, Inoperative Community, Trauma, Social Justice, and Agnes Smedley's Daughter of Earth
- Chapter Eight Theosophy, Plural Subjectivity, and Djuna Barnes's Nightwood
- Chapter Nine Exile, Cosmopolitanism, Modernity, and Younghill Kang's East Goes West
- Chapter Ten Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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- A Theoretical Approach to Modern American History and LiteratureAn Issue of Reconfiguration and Re-representation, pp. 263 - 280Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2020