Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gulddal, Jesper

Titel

Narratives of Resentment: Notes towards a Literary History of European Anti-Americanism

Ist Teil von

• New literary history, 2013-06, Vol.44 (3), p.493-513

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This essay investigates the history and internal functioning of a specifically literary form of anti-Americanism that for more than two hundred years has played a key role in the propagation of negative images of the United States. Drawing on Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-44), Duhamel's Scénes de la vie future (1930), and Graham Greene's The Quiet American (1955), it analyzes three major narrative paradigms of anti-Americanism literature: the story of the disillusioned emigrant, anti-American futurology, and anti-American tribunalism. On this basis, the essay offers a discussion of fictional literature as a medium for the development and dissemination of anti-Americanism, before concluding by linking literary anti-Americanism to the quest for a common European identity.