TY  - BOOK
AU  - Szalay,Michael
TI  - Hip figures: a literary history of the Democratic Party 
T2  - Post 45
SN  - 9780804782616
AV  - PS374.P6 S93 2012eb
U1  - 810.9/358 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Democratic Party (U.S.)
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - fast
KW  - American fiction
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - United States
KW  - African Americans in literature
KW  - Popular culture in literature
KW  - Liberalism in literature
KW  - Race in literature
KW  - Roman américain
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Politique et littérature
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Noirs américains dans la littérature
KW  - Culture populaire dans la littérature
KW  - Libéralisme dans la littérature
KW  - Race dans la littérature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - American
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-309) and index; Burden in blackface -- Selling JFK in the Manchurian candidate and Rabbit, run -- Ralph Ellison's unfinished second skin -- White-collar liberation and The confessions of Nat Turner -- Countercultural capital, from Alaska to Disneyland -- Conclusion : Joan Didion and the death of the hip figure
N2  - Hip Figures dramatically alters our understanding of the postwar American novel by showing how it mobilized fantasies of black style on behalf of the Democratic Party. Fascinated by jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, novelists such as Norman Mailer, Ralph Ellison, John Updike, and Joan Didion turned to hip culture to negotiate the voter realignments then reshaping national politics. Figuratively transporting white professionals and managers into the skins of African Americans, these novelists and many others insisted on their own importance to the ambitions of a party dependent on coalition-building but not fully committed to integration. Arbiters of hip for readers who weren't, they effectively branded and marketed the liberalism of their moment--and ours
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