The Business of America

Klappentext Explores the way business is portrayed in American culture and examines the emergence of cultural studies as a discipline. Zusammenfassung Explores the way business is portrayed in American culture and examines the emergence of cultural studies as a discipline.

Autorentext
Graham Thompson is Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Nottingham. He has published articles on representations of the office and the world of business in the Journal of American Studies, American Literary Realism, and OVERhere: A European Journal of American Culture.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements Introduction; Part One. White Male Literary Culture; 1. Errands in the Post-War/Cold War Jungle; 2. Entropy, Postmodernism and Global Systems; 3. Postnational Recovery Narratives and Beyond; Part Two. The Difference of Gender, Race and Sexuality; 4. Objectivist Fantasies and the Industry of Writing and Piracy; 5. Assimilation, Citizenship and Post-Ethnicity; 6. Queer Profits and Losses; Notes; Index