ミドルクラスの黄昏：第二次大戦後アメリカ小説とホワイトカラーの労働<br>The Twilight of the Middle Class : Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work

ミドルクラスの黄昏：第二次大戦後アメリカ小説とホワイトカラーの労働
The Twilight of the Middle Class : Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 158 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780691121451
  • DDC分類 813.54093552

基本説明

Reading works by Ayn Rand, Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Phillip Roth, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and others, the author shows how both the form and content of postwar fiction responded to the transformation of the American middle class small property owners to white-collar employees.

Full Description


In "The Twilight of the Middle Class", Andrew Hoberek challenges the commonly held notion that post-World War II American fiction eschewed the economic for the psychological or the spiritual. Reading works by Ayn Rand, Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Phillip Roth, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and others, he shows how both the form and content of postwar fiction responded to the transformation of the American middle class from small property owners to white-collar employees. In the process, he produces "compelling new accounts of identity politics and postmodernism that will be of interest to anyone who reads or teaches contemporary fiction.Hoberek argues that despite the financial gains and job security enjoyed by the postwar middle class, the transition to white-collar employment paved the way for its current precarious state in a country marked by increasingly deep class divisions. Postwar fiction provided the middle class with various imaginative substitutes for its former property-owning independence, substitutes that since then have not only allowed but abetted this class's downward mobility.To read this fiction in the light of the middle-class experience is thus not only to restore the severed connections between literary and economic "history in the second half of the twentieth "century, but to explore the roots of the contemporary crisis of the middle class.

Contents

Acknowledgments ix INTRODUCTIONCHAPTER ONE: Ayn Rand and the Politics of Property 33 CHAPTER TWO: Race Man,Organization Man,Invisible Man 53 CHAPTER THREE: "The So-Called Jewish Novel" 70 CHAPTER FOUR: Flannery O'Connor and the Southern Origins of Identity Politics 95 EPILOGUE: The Postmodern Fallacy 113 Notes 131 Index 155