Kalisch The politics of male friendship in contemporary American fiction

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5636-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Contemporary American and Canadian Writers

How might our friendships shape our politics? This new book examines how contemporary American fiction – from Philip Roth to Dinaw Mengestu – has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes of democracy in the United States.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kalisch, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1 ‘The Love Alternative’: Philip Roth’s I Married a Communist (1998) and The Human Stain (2000)
2 The Gift of Friendship: Paul Auster’s Fiction and Film
3 Broken Utopias: Michael Chabon’s Telegraph Avenue (2012) and Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude (2003)
4 The Borders of Friendship: Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2007) and Teju Cole’s Open City (2011)
Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Kalisch is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Bristol