{"product_id":"complicity-in-american-literature-after-1945-liberalism-race-and-colonialism-9780198954736","title":"Complicity in American Literature After 1945: Liberalism, Race, and Colonialism","description":"\u003cem\u003eComplicity in American Literature after 1945\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \"complicity\" derives etymologically from the Latin \u003cem\u003ecomplicãre\u003c\/em\u003e, which means \"to fold.\" If one is complicit, one is folded into a larger system of social harm over which one has little or no direct control. In the period from 1945 to the early 1970s, complicity with structural racism became a central concern for American writing and thought, as it grappled with the Holocaust, colonialism, the Vietnam War, and racial domination at home in the United States. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWriters and thinkers grasped complicity both as a social phenomenon to be represented and as a problem threatening to enfold writing itself. In addressing complicity, intellectuals were obliged to reconsider their social role and to innovate means of literary expression capable of articulating new experiences of guilt and responsibility. \u003cem\u003eComplicity in American Literature after 1945\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of that process as it took place across several genres, from highbrow short stories to crime fiction, and from experimental metafiction to the reportage essays of the New Journalism. It argues that the history of racial complicity is inseparable from the history of liberalism, and shows how we can make sense of our present preoccupations with complicity by studying its origins in the past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWill Norman, \u003cem\u003eReader in American Literature and Culture, University of Kent, Canterbury\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWill 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 \u003cem\u003eTransatlantic Aliens: Modernism, Exile, and Culture in Midcentury America\u003c\/em\u003e (2016) and \u003cem\u003eNabokov, History, and the Texture of Time\u003c\/em\u003e (2012). His articles have appeared in \u003cem\u003eAmerican Literature\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePost*45\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eModernism\/modernity, Comparative Literature Studies\u003c\/em\u003e, and various other venues. He is co-editor at the \u003cem\u003eJournal of American Studies\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51474726813970,"sku":"9780198954736","price":104.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9ae02e3b-45bd-4f24-958e-e833d8b33094.jpg?v=1752578927","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/complicity-in-american-literature-after-1945-liberalism-race-and-colonialism-9780198954736","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}