Du Bois’s Telegram : : Literary Resistance and State Containment / / Juliana Spahr.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Spahr, Juliana,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (210 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. Turn of the Twenty-First Century: A Possible Literature of Resistance --; 2. Stubborn Nationalism: Example One, Avant Garde Modernism --; 3. Stubborn Nationalism: Example Two, Movement Literatures --; 4. Turn of the Twenty-First Century: The National Tradition --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674988835; 9783110606621
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674988835
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Juliana Spahr.

Taking her cue from W. E. B. Du Bois, Juliana Spahr explores how state interests have shaped U.S. literature. What is the relationship between literature and politics? Can writing be revolutionary? Can art be autonomous or is escape from nations and nationalisms impossible? As her sobering study affirms, aesthetic resistance is easily domesticated.