The American novel now : reading contemporary American fiction since 1980

The American novel now reading contemporary American fiction since 1980

Part I: Before 1980Part II: From new realisms to postmodernism -- "This American Life" -- "Dirty Realisms" -- Only wor(l)ds -- Magnifying reality, multiplying genre -- Part III: Becoming identities -- Reinventing character -- Racing identity -- Engendering narrative -- Toward the...

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1. Verfasser: O'Donnell, Patrick (VerfasserIn)
Format: UnknownFormat
Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Chichester u.a. Wiley-Blackwell c 2010
Ausgabe:1. ed.
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American fiction > History and criticism > Literature and society > History > Literature and history > USA > Roman > Geschichte 1980-2010
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Zusammenfassung:Part I: Before 1980Part II: From new realisms to postmodernism -- "This American Life" -- "Dirty Realisms" -- Only wor(l)ds -- Magnifying reality, multiplying genre -- Part III: Becoming identities -- Reinventing character -- Racing identity -- Engendering narrative -- Toward the posthuman -- Part IV: What happened to history? -- The past is prologue -- Tunneling in -- Imagining epoch -- Another history -- Narrating Vietnam -- Catastrophe: The Ends of history -- Part V: Relations stopping nowhere -- The Postnuclear family -- The reach of community -- From there to here: migration and nation
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XI, 234 S.
ISBN:9781405167550
978-1-4051-6755-0
9781405167574
978-1-4051-6757-4
1405167556
1-4051-6755-6
1405167572
1-4051-6757-2