Información General

• Autores: Aaron Shaheen (ed. lit.), Rosa María Bautista Cordero (ed. lit.)
• Editores: The University of Tennessee Press
• Año de publicación: 2022
• País: Estados Unidos
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 9781621907138
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Resumen

• “I never could keep the world properly divided into gods and demons for very long,” wrote John Dos Passos, whose predilection toward nuance and tolerance brought him to see himself as a “chronicler”: a writer who might portray political situations and characters but would not deliberately lead the reader to a predetermined conclusion. Privileging the tangible over the ideological, Dos Passos’s writing between the two World Wars reveals the enormous human costs of modern warfare and ensuing political upheavals.

  This wide-ranging and engaging collection of essays explores the work of Dos Passos during a time that challenged writers to find new ways to understand and render the unfolding of history. Taking their foci from a variety of disciplines, including fashion, theater, and travel writing, the contributors extend the scholarship on Dos Passos beyond his best-known U.S.A. trilogy. Including scholars from both sides of the Atlantic, the volume takes on such topics as how writers should position their labor in relation to that of blue-collar workers and how Dos Passos’s views of Europe changed from fascination to disillusionment. Examinations of the Modernist’s Adventures of a Young Man, Manhattan Transfer, and “The Republic of Honest Men” increase our understanding of the work of a complicated figure in American literature, set against a backdrop of rapidly evolving technology, growing religious skepticism, and political turmoil in the wake of World War I.

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Listado de artículos

• • Introduction. The Raw Structure of History

    Aaron Shaheen

    págs. 1-21

    

  • Part 1. Chronicling War and its Aftermath

    • Warring Bodies: World War I Burial Practrices in John Dos Passos's One Man's Initiation : 1917 and 1919

      Victoria M. Bryan

      págs. 25-48

      

    • The Lost Generation and and US Transtlantic Imperialism in 1919

      Keiko Misugi

      págs. 49-72

      

    • Glenn Spotswood as Cannon Fodder: Myth vs. Reality at the International Brigades

      Rosa María Bautista Cordero

      págs. 73-94

      

  • Part 2. Chronicling American Commercial Culture: Manhattan Transfer

    • The Hat in Manhattan Transfer: A Jazz Age Tale of the Man in the Straw Hat and the Arrow Collar

      William Brevda

      págs. 97-119

      

    • Between a Novelist and a Chronicler: John Dos Passos in Manhattan Transfer

      Lauro Iglesias Quadrado

      págs. 121-143

      

    • Avatars of the American Dream: Manhattan Transfer, King Vidor's The Crowd, and Modernity

      Alberto Lena

      págs. 145-166

      

  • Part 3. Chronicling Political Ambivalence in the Age of Totalitarianism

    • John Dos Passos and the Russian Theatre, 1928

      Jessica E. Teague

      págs. 169-189

      

    • Dos Passos and the Promise and Failures of the Second Spanish Republic, 1933

      David Murad

      págs. 191-211

      

    • Representing Authors as Producers: Labor and the New Deal Intellectual in John Dos Passos's U.S.A. Trilogy

      Addison T. Palacios

      págs. 213-232

      

  • Part 4. Chronicling the America-Europe Divide

    • Transatlantic Tensions: Charging Views of Europe and the United States in Dos Passo's Interwar Writings

      Fredrik Tydal

      págs. 235-247

      

    • "Roots Striking into the Infinite Past": John Dos Passos's Quest for the Modernist Cosmopolitan Subject in Rosinante to the Road Again

      Eulalia Piñero Gil

      págs. 249-269