 | Apostles of Modernity: American Writers in the Age of Development Subjects: American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Internationalism in literature; American literature -- Foreign influences; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Foreign countries in literature; Apostles of Modernity offers an original, in-depth study of the literary manifestations of this period of globalism in novels, memoirs, essays, reportage, and political commentary. Through close readings of texts Reynolds revisits and reassesses U.S. internationalism, showing how writers and intellectuals engaged with a cluster of topics: decolonization, the rise of the Third World, Islamic difference, the end of European empires, ChinaOCOs enduring significance, and transatlantic and cosmopolitan identities. Throughout, the ideals of the United States as apostle of modernity and sponsor of development feature as central to American letters in the decades after World War II." Guy Reynolds is a professor of English and the director of the Cather Project at the University of Nebraska--Lincoln. He is the author of Willa Cather in Context: Progress, Race, Empire and Twentieth-Century American Women's Fiction: A Critical Introduction. |
