{"id":478,"date":"2020-04-06T09:13:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T09:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/?p=478"},"modified":"2020-04-06T09:41:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T09:41:00","slug":"leverhulme-fellowship-award-for-dr-will-norman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/2020\/04\/06\/leverhulme-fellowship-award-for-dr-will-norman\/","title":{"rendered":"Leverhulme Fellowship Award for Dr Will Norman"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Congratulations to Dr Will Norman<\/a> of the Centre for American Studies who has recently received a Leverhulme Research Fellowship<\/a> grant of \u00a349,710 for his project, Complicity in Post-1945 American Literature<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The project investigates how American writers and thinkers articulated and responded to the experience of complicity in the post-1945 era. As Dr Norman explains in a recent lecture on the subject (see below) complicity describes a state of entanglement in a harmful system over which one has little or no control. In the wake of the Holocaust, and in response to domestic and international racial conflicts of the period 1945-1975, American literary writing took up the challenge of representing complicity with <\/span>structures of racial domination. Dr Norman’s\u00a0<\/span>research analyses how particular writers and thinkers went about meeting this challenge, and explains how that process is related to the political culture of post-war liberalism.<\/span><\/p>\n