The Politics of Male Friendship in Contemporary American Fiction

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How might our friendships shape our politics This book examines how contemporary American fiction has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes of democracy in the United States. Bringing into dialogue the work of a wide range of authors including Philip Roth, Paul Auster, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem, Dinaw Mengestu, and Teju Cole this innovative study advances a compelling new account of the political and intellectual fabric of the American novel today.

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Michael Kalisch is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Bristol