Introduction: the inevitable intimate connection
Part 1. Liberal modernism and transnationalism: Naming what is inside: Gertrude Stein's use of names in Three lives; John Dos Passos's imaginary city in Manhattan transfer; Faulkner and the Southern arts of mystification in Absalom, absalom!; our invisible man: the aesthetic genealogy of U.S. diversity
Part 2. Postwar liberalism and the new cosmopolitanism: Racism, fetishism, and the gift economy in Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird; alien encounter: Thomas Berger's Neighbors as a critique of existential humanism; buried alive: the Native American political unconscious in Louise Erdrich's fiction; neoliberalism and the U.S. literary canon: the example of Philip Roth.
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Afterlives of modernism : liberalism, transnationalism, and political critique by John Carlos Rowe. ISBN 9781584659969. Published by Dartmouth College Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
