The Politics of Male Friendship in Contemporary American Fiction

by Michael Kalisch

ISBN: 9781526172044

Published: 2023-06-06

How might our friendships shape our politics? This new book examines how contemporary American fiction - from Philip Roth to Dinaw Mengestu - 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.