Surveyors of Customs explores literature's insights into how America¿its soft capitalism, its "democratized" inequality, its Americanization of power¿"ticks." Joel Pfister argues that writers from Benjamin Franklin to Louise Erdrich can be read as critical "surveyors" of customs, culture, hegemony, capitalism's emotional logic, and much else.
Surveyors of Customs explores literature's insights into how America¿its soft capitalism, its "democratized" inequality, its Americanization of power¿"ticks." Joel Pfister argues that writers from Benjamin Franklin to Louise Erdrich can be read as critical "surveyors" of customs, culture, hegemony, capitalism's emotional logic, and much else.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Joel Pfister is Olin Professor of English and American Studies at Wesleyan University. His publications include Staging Depth: Eugene O'Neill and the Politics of Psychological Discourse (University of North Carolina Press, 1995), Individuality Incorporated: Indians and the Multicultural Modern (Duke UP, 2004) and The Yale Indian: The Education of Henry Roe Cloud (Duke UP, 2009).
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Critical Work and Critical Pleasure of American Literature 1. Inner-Self Industries: Soft Capitalism's Reproductive Logic 2. How America Works: Getting Personal to Get Personnel 3. Dress-Down Conquest: Americanizing Top-Down as Bottom-Up Afterword: Payoffs Notes Works Consulted Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Critical Work and Critical Pleasure of American Literature 1. Inner-Self Industries: Soft Capitalism's Reproductive Logic 2. How America Works: Getting Personal to Get Personnel 3. Dress-Down Conquest: Americanizing Top-Down as Bottom-Up Afterword: Payoffs Notes Works Consulted Index
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