- Title
- Narratives of resentment: notes towards a literary history of European anti-Americanism
- Creator
- Gulddal, Jesper
- Relation
- New Literary History Vol. 44, Issue 3, p. 493-513
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2013.0025
- Publisher
- The John Hopkins University Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- 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.
- Subject
- anti-Americanism; literature; United States
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1058261
- Identifier
- uon:16374
- Identifier
- ISSN:1080-661X
- Language
- eng
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