The American Novel Now
Reading Contemporary American Fiction Since 1980
Gebonden Engels 2010 9781405167574Samenvatting
The American Novel Now navigates the vast terrain of the American novel since 1980, exploring issues of identity, history, family, nation, and aesthetics, as well as cultural movements and narrative strategies from over seventy different authors and novels. Discusses an exceptionally wide-range of authors and novels, from established figures to significant emerging writersToni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Louise Erdrich, Don DeLillo, Richard Powers, Kathy Acker and many moreExplores the range of themes and styles offered in the wealth of contemporary American fiction since 1980, in both mainstream and experimental writingsReflects the liveliness and diversity of American fiction in the last thirty yearsWritten in a style that makes it ideal for students and scholars, while also accessible for general readers
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
Acknowledgments xii
Part I: Before 1980 1
Part II: From New Realisms to Postmodernism 34
“This American Life” 35
“Dirty Realisms” 46
Only Wor(l)ds 56
Magnifying Reality, Multiplying Genre 67
Part III: Becoming Identities 80
Reinventing Character 82
Racing Identity 92
Engendering Narrative 104
Toward the Posthuman 115
Part IV: What Happened to History? 124
The Past is Prologue 126
Tunneling In 132
Imagining Epoch 136
Another History 146
Narrating Vietnam 150
Catastrophe: The Ends of History 162
Part V: Relations Stopping Nowhere 172
The Postnuclear Family 173
The Reach of Community 187
From There to Here: Migration and Nation 199
Epilogue 213
Notes 216
References 220
Index 228
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