- Paperback: 200 pages
- Publisher: Pluto Press; First Edition edition (20 Mar 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0745318088
- ISBN-13: 978-0745318080
- Product Dimensions: 21.7 x 13.3 x 1.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,382,272 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Thompson analyses the relationship of postwar American literature with ,business', in a book that is organised provocatively along lines of race and sex. (The Guardian )
... The Business of America is sweeping in its search to connect seemingly disparate influences in post-war American literature and its evolution in parallel with the increasing globalization. Highly recomended. (Library Bookwatch )
... The Business of America is sweeping in its search to connect seemingly disparate influences in post-war American literature and its evolution in parallel with the increasing globalization. Highly recomended. (Library Bookwatch )
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The Business of America examines the complex linking of business and nationhood in post-war United States literature against the backdrop of changing concepts of the nation in the field of American Studies.
The first part of the book examines how white male literary culture has been largely hostile to business during this period and how it has represented transnational shifts in the nature of business as threats to supposedly American values like the individual, the family, or freedom. The book charts the way that such an uneasiness towards business relies upon a discourse about America, business and empire that is increasingly untenable in the post-war world.
By way of comparison, The Business of America looks at how literature by women and by writers from different racial, ethnic and sexual groups often deals with business from the more localised angle of work. Graham Thompson shows how this attention to work provides a less abstract and more oppositional approach to the connection between business and America.
The first part of the book examines how white male literary culture has been largely hostile to business during this period and how it has represented transnational shifts in the nature of business as threats to supposedly American values like the individual, the family, or freedom. The book charts the way that such an uneasiness towards business relies upon a discourse about America, business and empire that is increasingly untenable in the post-war world.
By way of comparison, The Business of America looks at how literature by women and by writers from different racial, ethnic and sexual groups often deals with business from the more localised angle of work. Graham Thompson shows how this attention to work provides a less abstract and more oppositional approach to the connection between business and America.
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The Business Of America: The Cultural Production Of Post-War Nation is an exentended discussion concerning how ever greater transnational shifts in business culture may come to threaten the American values of individuality, family, and freedom, and how this tension is realized within modern literature. Focusing also on the emergence of American Studies as a discipline after the second world war, The Business Of America is sweeping in its search to connect seemingly disparate influences in post-war American literature and its evolution in parallel with the increasing globalization. Highly recommended.
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