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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 287-316 |
| Number of pages | 30 |
| Journal | ELH |
| Volume | 80 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Early online date | 15 Mar 2013 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
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Lighting out for the global territory : postwar revisions of cultural anthropology and Jewish American identity in Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King. / STRAND, Eric.
In: ELH, Vol. 80, No. 1, 2013, p. 287-316.Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Lighting out for the global territory : postwar revisions of cultural anthropology and Jewish American identity in Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King
AU - STRAND, Eric
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Saul Bellow enthusiastically explored the creative possibilities of globalization after World War II, imagining a space of creative freedom outside the boundaries of the nation-state. In so doing he helped to transform American Jewishness from a leftist culture rooted in working-class politics and racial alliances into a more syncretic, market-oriented form of identity. His major work of travel fiction, Henderson the Rain King, criticizes European colonial discourse and valorizes the hybrid cosmopolitan Dahfu, psychotherapist and African king, who acts as Henderson’s intellectual mentor. Although antiracist in intent, Bellow’s vision of travel-fueled 3 professional autonomy opposes collective movements for social change and nationalist resistance to imperialism, which helps to explain his neoconservative turn in the 1970s.
AB - Saul Bellow enthusiastically explored the creative possibilities of globalization after World War II, imagining a space of creative freedom outside the boundaries of the nation-state. In so doing he helped to transform American Jewishness from a leftist culture rooted in working-class politics and racial alliances into a more syncretic, market-oriented form of identity. His major work of travel fiction, Henderson the Rain King, criticizes European colonial discourse and valorizes the hybrid cosmopolitan Dahfu, psychotherapist and African king, who acts as Henderson’s intellectual mentor. Although antiracist in intent, Bellow’s vision of travel-fueled 3 professional autonomy opposes collective movements for social change and nationalist resistance to imperialism, which helps to explain his neoconservative turn in the 1970s.
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DO - 10.1353/elh.2013.0000
M3 - Journal Article (refereed)
VL - 80
SP - 287
EP - 316
JO - ELH - English Literary History
JF - ELH - English Literary History
SN - 0013-8304
IS - 1
ER -