Rita Barnard is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, USA and Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Her publications include Apartheid and Beyond: South African Writers and the Politics of Place (2006) and, as editor, The Cambridge Companion to Nelson Mandela (2014).
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Acknowledgements Part I. Context: 1. Introduction: literature and mass culture in the thirties 2. Hard times, modern times Part II. Kenneth Fearing: 3. The politics of literary failure: fearing, mass culture and the canon 4. The undercover agent and the culture of the spectacle 5. 'Zowie did he live and Zowie did he die': mass culture and the fragmentation of experience Part III. Nathaniel West: 6. 'A surfeit of shoddy': West and the spectacle of culture 7. 'When you wish upon a star': fantasy, experience and mass culture 8. The storyteller, the novelist and the advice columnist Epilogue: 'happy ending' Notes Index.
Acknowledgements Part I. Context: 1. Introduction: literature and mass culture in the thirties 2. Hard times, modern times Part II. Kenneth Fearing: 3. The politics of literary failure: fearing, mass culture and the canon 4. The undercover agent and the culture of the spectacle 5. 'Zowie did he live and Zowie did he die': mass culture and the fragmentation of experience Part III. Nathaniel West: 6. 'A surfeit of shoddy': West and the spectacle of culture 7. 'When you wish upon a star': fantasy, experience and mass culture 8. The storyteller, the novelist and the advice columnist Epilogue: 'happy ending' Notes Index.
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