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Jack Isidore doesn't see the world like most people. According to his brother-in-law Charlie, he’s a crap artist, obsessed with his own bizarre theories and ideas, which he fanatically records in his many notebooks. He is so grossly unequipped for real life that his sister and brother-in-law feel compelled to rescue him from it. But while Fay and Charlie Hume put on a happy face for the world, they prove to be just as sealed off from reality, in thrall to obsessions that are slightly more acceptable than Jack's but a great deal uglier. Their constant fighting and betrayals threaten their own marriage and the relationships of everyone around them. When they bring Jack into their home, he finds himself in the middle of a maelstrom of suburban angst from which he might not be able to escape.Confessions of a Crap Artist is one of Philip K. Dick's most accomplished novels, and the only non–science fiction novel published in his lifetime.

Artistes. --- Humour noir américain.

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ROMAN ANGLAIS --- ROMAN AMERICAIN --- LITTERATURE POPULAIRE ANGLAISE --- NOUVELLES (GENRE LITTERAIRE) AMERICAINES --- 21E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE

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"Transnational America" is a path-breaking study of the production of middle-class Indian and American citizens in the context of late-twentieth-century neoliberalism. Inderpal Grewal considers how the circulation and travels of South Asian Indians between India and the U.S. during the 1990s created transnational subjects shaped by a global American culture. Rather than simply framing the United States as an imperialist nation-state that imposes unilateral political power in the world, Grewal analyzes how the concept of 'America' functions as a nationalist discourse beyond the boundaries of the United States by disseminating an ideal of democratic citizenship through consumer practices. Grewal combines a postcolonial perspective with social and cultural theory to argue that contemporary notions of gender, race, class, and nationality are linked to earlier histories of colonization and, in particular, to the consumer culture that emerged from colonization. Focusing on three novelists who emigrated from India to the United States, she considers how a concept of Americanness becomes linked to cosmopolitanism. Through an analysis of Mattel's sales of Barbie dolls in India, she shows how American products are consumed by middle-class Indian women with financial means created by India's market liberalization. Considering the fate of asylum-seekers, Grewal looks at how a global feminism in which female refugees are figured as human rights victims emerged from a Western subjectivity. In drawing attention to an 'America' created through the global circulation of people, goods, social movements, rights discourses and more, Grewal makes a powerful, nuanced argument that America must be understood - and studied - as a dynamic entity produced and transformed both within and far beyond its territorial boundaries.

Indiens de l'Inde --- Transnationalisme --- Américanisation --- Identité collective --- Caractère national américain --- Mondialisation --- Nationalisme et féminisme --- États-Unis --- Aspect social

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Although often dismissed as a minor offshoot of the better-known German movement, expressionism on the American stage represents a critical phase in the development of American dramatic modernism. Situating expressionism within the context of early twentieth-century American culture, Walker demonstrates how playwrights who wrote in this mode were responding both to new communications technologies and to the perceived threat they posed to the embodied act of meaning. At a time when mute bodies gesticulated on the silver screen, ghostly voices emanated from tin horns, and inked words stamped out the personality of the hand that composed them, expressionist playwrights began to represent these new cultural experiences by disarticulating the theatrical languages of bodies, voices and words. In doing so, they not only innovated a new dramatic form, but redefined playwriting from a theatrical craft to a literary art form, heralding the birth of American dramatic modernism.

American drama --- Expressionism in literature. --- Modernism (Literature) --- Theater --- History and criticism. --- THEATRE (GENRE LITTERAIRE) AMERICAIN --- THEATRE --- 20E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- ETATS-UNIS

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ROMAN AMERICAIN --- MODERNISME (LITTERATURE) --- SEXUALITE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- DREISER (THEODORE), ROMANCIER AMERICAIN, 1871-1945 --- CATHER (WILLA), 1873-1947 --- FAULKNER (WILLIAM FALKNER, DIT), 1897-1962 --- WRIGHT (RICHARD), 1908-1960 --- 20E SIECLE --- ETAT-UNIS --- SISTER CARRIE --- PROFESSOR'S HOUSE --- SANCTUARY --- NATIVE SON --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE