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David R. Mayhew, Electoral Realignments: A Critique of an American Genre (Haven: Yale University Press, 2002, £16.95). Pp. 174. ISBN 0 300 09336 5

HERBERT, JON

Journal of American Studies, 2004, Vol.38 (1), p.153-154 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

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  • Title:
    David R. Mayhew, Electoral Realignments: A Critique of an American Genre (Haven: Yale University Press, 2002, £16.95). Pp. 174. ISBN 0 300 09336 5
  • Author: HERBERT, JON
  • Subjects: Malamud, Bernard ; Reviews
  • Is Part Of: Journal of American Studies, 2004, Vol.38 (1), p.153-154
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  • Description: [...]this investigative work illuminate[s] the complex relationship between domesticity and immigration and demonstrate[s] some of the ways in which Victorian emigrant novels helped construct and deconstruct Home Sweet Home, by stressing how such ction manifests a Bakhtinian heteroglossia its living dialogic threads weaving an uneasy, even contradictory portrait of England as the allegedly exemplary site of the Angel of the Hearths domestic reign. Delbancos portrait of the artist as a high priest of aesthetics _ wearing a business suit (36) whose ction is distinguished by its colloquial austerity of language (39) sheds interesting light on Malamuds working practices; Joel Salzburgs analysis of the correspondence between the writer and a little-known contemporary artist, Rosemarie Beck, is fascinating, if replete (like the letters themselves) with tantalising lacunae (though the essay itself is entitled The Rhythms of Friendship in the Life of Art it seems clear that sexual tension and artistic rivalry complicated the friendship); Karen L. Posters discussion of the pattern of broken lives imperfectly redeemed through restorative suering and the acceptance of membership within a awed human community (59) as it manifests itself in The Last Mohican makes a persuasive case for Malamud as at once a profoundly humanist and Jewish writer; Sanford Pinsker provides an entertaining rereading of A New Life that emphasizes the tragi-comic aspects of Malamuds ction; and Victoria Aarons oers an excellent formal analysis of Malamuds use of the trope of suspension. The case study approach allows her to tease out the signicance of minute, local shifts, such as the process whereby dorm curfews were gradually relaxed and abandoned, while also using similar local traces to segue into a thoughtful discussion of more clearly national phenomena such as the replacement of a moral understanding of homosexuality by a psychological taxonomy. Among the most telling of her excavations is the account of how federally funded university expansion, and its attached rhetoric of individual and civic responsibility, designed to create a citizenry suitable for the Cold War task of ghting the enemy without, produced a generation who unselfconsciously used that rhetoric to redene standards of personal and social morality.
  • Publisher: Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
  • Language: English
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