American Novel After Ideology, 1961-2000

Claims of ideology''s end are, on the one hand, performative denials of ideology''s inability to end; while, on the other hand, paradoxically, they also reiterate an idea that ''ending'' is simply what all ideologies eventually do. Situating her work around the intersecting publications of Daniel Bell''s The End of Ideology (1960) and J.D. Salinger''s Franny and Zooey (1961), Laurie Rodrigues argu...