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Description of  The Regional Development of the American Bildungsroman, 1900 1960 (Modern American Literature and the New Twentieth Century)

1474489966 pdf Why did the Bildungsroman, defined as the novel of development, and its protagonist Youth, become the symbolic form of the U.S.s cultural preoccupation with regional difference amidst the nations rapid but uneven development c.19001960? As a genre that historically represented the young individuals development in national-historical time, the Bildungsroman became one crucial means of configuring the culturally, politically, and economically asymmetrical effects of national modernization and the U.S.s political ascendence within the capitalist world-system. Responding to that predicament, the novel of uneven development rose to salience, led by its protagonist, the unfixed youth,whose development within the national-historical time of Americanization is unsettled by their preoccupation with regional difference: an immobilizing entanglement I call American literatures Read more