Narratives of Resentment
Notes towards a Literary History of European Anti-Americanism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7932068 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jesper Gulddal (0000-0002-0888-8919, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 493-513 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/nlh.2013.0025 |
| OpenAlex | W1970807967 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
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
Aesthetics · American literature · Anti-Americanism · Art · History of literature · Identity (music · Literature · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resentment · Sociology · Education, Politics, and Culture Studies · European Law and Migration · History · Law · Leadership, Human Resources, Global Affairs
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |