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Book SynopsisExamining hardboiled fiction through Flaubert, New Yorker cartoons through modernist painting, and Bette Davis through Hegel and Marx, Transatlantic Aliens challenges and changes the way we understand modernism's place in midcentury American culture.
Trade ReviewWriting with the style and vocabulary of modern intellectualism, [Norman] demonstrates the culture to which new scholars can aspire. Highly recommended. Choice
Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1Homeless Aliens and Dialectical Culture Critique: C. L. R. James and Theodor AdornoChapter 2 The Yankee from Berlin: George GroszChapter 3The Big Empty: Raymond Chandler's Transatlantic Modernism Chapter 4 The Taste of Freedom: Simone de Beauvoir, Vladimir Nabokov and the Intellectual Road Trip Chapter 5 Saul Steinberg's Vanishing Trick: Modernism, the State, and the Cosmopolitan Intellectual Conclusion: Not to Grin is a Sin Notes Index
