Literature & Literary Studies
The politics of male friendship in contemporary American fiction
by Michael Kalisch
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How might our friendships shape our politics? This book examines how contemporary American fiction 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. Bringing into dialogue the work of a wide range of authors - including Philip Roth, Paul Auster, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem, Dinaw Mengestu, and Teju Cole - this innovative study advances a compelling new account of the political and intellectual fabric of the American novel today.
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This book explores how the contemporary American novel has revived a long literary and political tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes of democracy in the United States. In the last decades of the twentieth century, not only novelists, but philosophers, critical theorists, and sociologists rediscovered the concept of friendship as a means of scrutinising bonds of national identity. Long exiled from serious political philosophy, this book reveals how friendship returned as a crucial term in late twentieth-century communitarian debates about citizenship while, at the same time, becoming integral to continental philosophy's exploration of the roots of democracy, and, in a different guise, to histories of sexuality. Moving innovatively between disciplines, this important study brings into dialogue the work of authors rarely discussed together - including Philip Roth, Paul Auster, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem, Dinaw Mengestu, and Teju Cole - and advances a compelling new account of the political and intellectual fabric of the contemporary American novel.
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This book explores how the contemporary American novel has revived a long literary and political tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes of democracy in the United States. In the last decades of the twentieth century, not only novelists, but philosophers, critical theorists, and sociologists rediscovered the concept of friendship as a means of scrutinising bonds of national identity. Long exiled from serious political philosophy, this book reveals how friendship returned as a crucial term in late twentieth-century communitarian debates about citizenship while, at the same time, becoming integral to continental philosophy's exploration of the roots of democracy, and, in a different guise, to histories of sexuality. Moving innovatively between disciplines, this important study brings into dialogue the work of authors rarely discussed together - including Philip Roth, Paul Auster, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem, Dinaw Mengestu, and Teju Cole - and advances a compelling new account of the political and intellectual fabric of the contemporary American novel.
Author Biography
Michael Kalisch is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Bristol
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date June 2023
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781526172044 / 1526172046
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPrint PDF
- Pages256
- ReadershipGeneral/trade
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions216 X 138 mm
- Biblio NotesDerived from Proprietary 5268
- SeriesContemporary American and Canadian Writers
- Reference Code15621
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