{"product_id":"telling-americas-story-to-the-harilaos-stecopoulos-9780192864635","title":"Telling America's Story to the World: Literature, Internationalism, Cultural Diplomacy","description":"\u003cem\u003eTelling America's Story to the World\u003c\/em\u003e argues that state and state-affiliated cultural diplomacy contributed to the making of postwar US literature. Highlighting the role of liberal internationalism in US cultural outreach, Harilaos Stecopoulos contends that the state mainly sent authors like Ralph Ellison, Robert Frost, William Faulkner, Langston Hughes, and Maxine Hong Kingston overseas not just to demonstrate the achievements of US civilization but also to broadcast an American commitment to international cross-cultural connection. Those writers-cum-ambassadors may not have helped the state achieve its propaganda goals-indeed, this rarely proved the case-but they did find their assignments an opportunity to ponder the international meanings and possibilities of US literature. For many of those figures, courting foreign publics inspired a reevaluation of the scope and form of their own literary projects. Testifying to the inadvertent yet integral role of cultural diplomacy in the worlding of US letters, works like \u003cem\u003eThe Mansion\u003c\/em\u003e (1959), \u003cem\u003eLife Studies\u003c\/em\u003e (1959), \"Cultural Exchange\" (1961, 1967), \u003cem\u003eTripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book\u003c\/em\u003e (1989), and \u003cem\u003eThree Days Before the Shooting...\u003c\/em\u003e (2010) reimagine US literature in a mobile, global, and distinctly political register.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Harilaos Stecopoulos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0192864637\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780192864635\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/03\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.50d","brand":"Harilaos Stecopoulos","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44069581947135,"sku":"9780192864635","price":105.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_128ab62d-fb11-44cb-b465-ff039b80d112.jpg?v=1685425454","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/telling-americas-story-to-the-harilaos-stecopoulos-9780192864635","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}