The American Novel After Ideology, 1961-2000

by Laurie Rodrigues

Claims of ideology's end are, on the one hand, performative denials of ideology's inability to end; while, on the other hand, paradoxically, they also reiterate an idea that 'ending' is simply what all ideologies eventually do. Situating her work around the intersecting publications of Daniel Bell's The End of Ideology (1960) and J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey (1961), Laurie Rodrigues argues that American novels express this paradox...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501361864
• ISBN13: 9781501361869
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"