Updike & politics : new considerations / edited by Matthew Shipe and Scott Dill.

Contributor Shipe, Matthew, editor.

ImprintLanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]

Descriptionxi, 268 pages ; 24 cm.

Note:Updike and politics: an introduction / Matthew Shipe and Scott Dill -- Part 1. The Presidency. Updike and the American presidency / James Schiff -- "We're none of us perfect": Watergate and adultery in John Updike's A month of Sundays and Memories of the Ford administration / Marshall Boswell -- Presidential politics as sexual politics: Memoires of the Ford administration / Judie Newman -- John Updike's poetics of hope / Jo Gill -- Updike on demagoguery: reconsidering Rabbit redux in the age of Trump / Ethan Fishman -- Part II. The American scene. -- "Love it or leave it": America in red, gray, and blue in Rabbit redux / Sylvie Mathé -- "Mail" chauvinism: John Updike's postal fetish and the unrealizable vision of American democracy / Yoav Fromer -- The failure of moderation in Buchanan dying and Memories of the Ford administration / Michial Farmer -- Inside Reagan's "placid, uncluttered head" : Roger's version and the rise of neoliberalism / Matthew Shipe -- The politics of vulnerability in The afterlife and other stories / Biljana Dojcinovic -- John Updike's Terrorist and the poliltics of hygiene / Aleksandra Vukotic -- Part III. Updike abroad -- Updike's Middle East: a neoliberal approach to conflict resolution / Louis Gordon -- Updike "third-worlds it": staging The coup as political satire / Kirk Curnutt -- The Three Mile Island accident and "the man from Toyota": looking back on the cultural politics of the Cold War in Rabbit is rich and Rabbit at rest / Takashi Nakatani -- John Updike and the world: the politics of identity in Brazil / Pradipta Sengupta.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:Updike & Politics presents the first collection of essays devoted to the political aspects of Updikes work and showcases a variety of international perspectives.

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