Complicity in American Literature after 1945: Liberalism, Race, and Colonialism

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Will Norman (Reader in American Literature and Culture, Reader in American Literature and Culture, University of Kent, Canterbury)

Complicity in American Literature after 1945

Liberalism, Race, and Colonialism

Will Norman (Reader in American Literature and Culture, Reader in American Literature and Culture, University of Kent, Canterbury)

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Oxford University Press
03 July 2025

Literature: history & criticism; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Colonialism & imperialism; The Holocaust; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge

Series: Oxford Studies in American Literary History

Complicity in American Literature after 1945 offers a literary and intellectual history of the idea of complicity in the United States, proposing a new frame for understanding American literature in the period. The term

By: Will Norman (Reader in American Literature and Culture Reader in American Literature and Culture University of Kent Canterbury)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 490g
ISBN: 9780198954736
ISBN 10: 0198954735
Series: Oxford Studies in American Literary History
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 03 July 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Writing Complicity Part I. Complicity after World War Two 1: Unbearable Situations: Sartre and Arendt 2: Complicit Atmospheres: Anti-Semitism and Midcentury Fiction 3: The Fact of Representation: Metafiction, Coordination, and Denazification Part II. The Sixties and After 4: New Journalism and the Implicated Subject 5: James Baldwin, Liberalism, and Survivor Guilt 6: The Complicities of Black Crime Fiction Conclusion: Complicity Now

Will Norman is a Reader in American literature and culture at the University of Kent. He has been a Fulbright Scholar and Leverhulme Research Fellow. He is the author of Transatlantic Aliens: Modernism, Exile, and Culture in Midcentury America (2016) and Nabokov, History, and the Texture of Time (2012). His articles have appeared in American Literature, Post*45, Modernism/modernity, Comparative Literature Studies, and various other venues. He is co-editor at the Journal of American Studies.