The Post-Utopian Imagination
American Culture in the Long 1950s
In America, the long 1950s were marked by an intense skepticism toward utopian alternatives to the existing capitalist order. This skepticism was closely related to the climate of the Cold War, in which the demonization of socialism contributed to a dismissal of all alternatives to capitalism. This book studies how American novels and films of the long 1950s reflect the loss of the utopian imagination and mirror the growing concern that capitalism brought routinization, alienation, and other dehumanizing consequences. The volume relates the decline of the utopian vision to the rise of late capitalism, with its expanding globalization and cons…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-313-32165-8
- EAN: 9780313321658
- Produktnummer: 1695534
- Verlag: Praeger
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 236 S.
- Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.1 cm x D1.7 cm 525 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 525
Über den Autor
M. Keith Booker is Professor of English at the University of Arkansas. He is the author of numerous articles and books on modern literature and theory, including Dystopian Literature: A Theory and Research Guide (Greenwood, 1994), Joyce, Bakhtin, and the Literary Tradition (1996), A Practical Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism (1996), Colonial Power, Colonial Texts: India in the Modern British Novel (1997), The African Novel in English (Heinemann, 1998), The Modern British Novel of the Left (Greenwood, 1998), The Modern American Novel of the Left (Greenwood, 1999), Film and the American Left (Greenwood, 1999), Ulysses, Capitalism, and Colonialism (Greenwood, 2000), and Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, and the Cold War (Greenwood, 2001).
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