Political Fiction and the American Self
by Whalen-Bridge, JohnFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-05-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Illinois Pr
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Summary
Examining political novels that have achieved (or been denied) canonical status, John Whalen-Bridge demonstrates how Herman Melville, Jack London, Norman Mailer, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Margaret Atwood have grappled with the problem of balancing radicalism and art. He shows that some books are more political than others, that some political novelists are more skillful than others, and that readers must allow for basic working distinctions between politics and aesthetics if we are to make useful judgments about which political novels to read - and why.
Author Biography
John Whalen-Bridge is a visiting professor of English at the University of the Ryukyus in Japan.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction: The Problem of the American Political Novel | p. 1 |
| Political Fiction as Impurity in American Literary Criticism | p. 17 |
| Submerged Revolution in Moby-Dick | p. 45 |
| How to Read a Revolutionary Novel: The Iron Heel | p. 73 |
| Adamic Purity as Double-Agent in Harlot's Ghost | p. 103 |
| Invisible Prophet: Sula Peace, 1965 | p. 131 |
| Conclusion: Politics and Interpretation in America | p. 171 |
| Works Cited and Consulted | p. 187 |
| Index | p. 199 |
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