Cover; Title Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction: The Inevitable Intimate Connection; I: Liberal Modernism and Transnationalism; [1] Naming What is Inside: Gertrude Stein's Use of Names in Three Lives; [2] John Dos Passos's Imaginary City in Manhattan Transfer; [3] Faulkner and the Southern Arts of Mystification in Absalom, Absalom!; [4] Our Invisible Man: The Aesthetic Genealogy of U.S. Diversity; II: Postwar Liberalism and the New Cosmopolitanism; [5] Racism, Fetishism, and the Gift Economy in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
[6] Alien Encounter: Thomas Berger's Neighbors as a Critique of Existential Humanism[7] Buried Alive: The Native American Political Unconscious in Louise Erdrich's Fiction; [8] Neoliberalism and the U.S. Literary Canon: The Example of Philip Roth; Bibliography; Index
