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- W1607654490 abstract "The ahistorical analysis of texts reduces complex social visions to mere literary device. This method particularly distorts its object when it overtly depoliticizes writings that explicitly mediate between read ers and social life. In this essay I will show how strategically reading John Dos Passos's The 42nd Parallel within the context of American history and the ideas of Hegelian Marxism—particularly those ex pressed in the early works of Georg Lukacs and Theodor Adorno— restores its rich radical vision. Indeed, a sympathetic leftist reading of this novel illuminates its political insights and may begin to rebut ac cepted notions of the failures of the left in American literature and political life. This novel, the first of his U.S.A. trilogy, is distinct from the other two works of the trilogy in that it begins with an assump tion of hope and attempts to implicate its readers in its oppositional political vision. While it may be seen, if viewed through the prism of Dos Passos's biography, as sliding in the direction of despair articu lated by these succeeding novels, I believe its initial impulse endows it with a Marxist perspective that, to some degree, it sustains throughout. The 42nd Parallel has been repeatedly discussed as an example of its author's increasing pessimism and ultimate reaction.1 When one approaches it as an element within the narrative of John Dos Passos's movement from the political left to the right, it easily lends itself to such emplotment. However, this analysis explicitly reproduces the ahistorical tendencies of literary studies, while it implicitly reproduces cultural narratives of the inevitable failure of the American left. Thus, Dos Passos's alternative social vision lies dormant, repressed by dom inant critical strategies and the unproblematized tropes American cul tural history. By historicizing the novel we may see how it is both a critique of American mass culture and a device for enlisting its read ers in a process of political affirmation and empowerment—however idealist. The 42nd Parallel, when viewed within the context of Ameri can culture, also questions the efficacy of the then-dominant form of the protest novel, naturalism. Dos Passos critiques this literary form for its determinist excess and its questionable political effects." @default.
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- W1607654490 title "John Dos Passos and the American Left: Recovering the Dialectic of History" @default.
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