Cosmopolitan Minds : : Literature, Emotion, and the Transnational Imagination / / Alexa Weik von Mossner.
During World War II and the early Cold War period, factors such as race, gender, sexual orientation, or class made a number of American writers feel marginalized in U.S. society. Cosmopolitan Minds focuses on a core of transnational writers—Kay Boyle, Pearl S. Buck, William Gardner Smith, Richard Wr...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Literature, Emotion, and the Cosmopolitan Imagination
- Chapter 1. Empathetic Cosmopolitanism: Kay Boyle and the Precariousness of Human Rights
- Chapter 2. Sentimental Cosmopolitanism: The Transcultural Feelings of Pearl S. Buck
- Chapter 3. Cosmopolitan Sensitivities: Bystander Guilt and Interracial Solidarity in the Work of William Gardner Smith
- Chapter 4. Cosmopolitan Contradictions: Fear, Anger, and the Transgressive Heroes of Richard Wright
- Chapter 5. The Limits of Cosmopolitanism: Disgust and Intercultural Horror in the Fiction of Paul Bowles
- Conclusion. (Eco-)Cosmopolitan Feelings?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index