Telling America's Story to the World is the first study to demonstrate the important role that US cultural diplomacy played in the making of postwar US literature. It does so by discussing how the work of Ralph Ellison, Robert Frost, William Faulkner, Langston Hughes, and Maxine Hong Kingston was used to demonstrate American cultural identity.
Telling America's Story to the World is the first study to demonstrate the important role that US cultural diplomacy played in the making of postwar US literature. It does so by discussing how the work of Ralph Ellison, Robert Frost, William Faulkner, Langston Hughes, and Maxine Hong Kingston was used to demonstrate American cultural identity.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Harilaos Stecopoulos is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa. He earned his doctorate at the University of Virginia and is a renowned scholar in the field of US literature and culture. Stecopoulos's books include: A History of the Literature of the US South (2021), Reconstructing the World: Southern Fictions and US Imperialisms (2008), and Race and the Subject of Masculinities (1997).
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* Preface * Introduction * 1: The Good Neighbor Theory of American Literature: Archibald MacLeish and "the New World" of the United Nations * 2: "Chau-vin-ism! Con-form-ity! Self-de-termi-nation! Freeeeeeeeee-dom!" Ralph Ellison, Robert Lowell, and Occupied Salzburg * 3: People to People, Writers to Writers: William Faulkner, the Snopes Problem, and Middlebrow Internationalism * 4: Diasporic Diplomacy: Langston Hughes, the Africa Propaganda Campaign, and Black Literary Internationalism * 5: Republic of Letters, Cockpit of Controversy: Arthur Miller, PEN International, and Literary Détente * 6: "A Harvest of Conversations Among Multitudes": Maxine Hong Kingston, Wittman Ah Sing, and the US-China Writers' Conferences * Coda: Multicultural Diplomacy * Bibliography
* Preface * Introduction * 1: The Good Neighbor Theory of American Literature: Archibald MacLeish and "the New World" of the United Nations * 2: "Chau-vin-ism! Con-form-ity! Self-de-termi-nation! Freeeeeeeeee-dom!" Ralph Ellison, Robert Lowell, and Occupied Salzburg * 3: People to People, Writers to Writers: William Faulkner, the Snopes Problem, and Middlebrow Internationalism * 4: Diasporic Diplomacy: Langston Hughes, the Africa Propaganda Campaign, and Black Literary Internationalism * 5: Republic of Letters, Cockpit of Controversy: Arthur Miller, PEN International, and Literary Détente * 6: "A Harvest of Conversations Among Multitudes": Maxine Hong Kingston, Wittman Ah Sing, and the US-China Writers' Conferences * Coda: Multicultural Diplomacy * Bibliography
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