The American novel now :reading contemporary American fiction since 1980
Chichester; Malden, MA
Wiley-Blackwell
2010
xi, 234 p. ;23 cm
مرجع به حساب نمي آيد
Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-227) and index
Part I: Before 1980 -- Part 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
reading contemporary American fiction since 1980 /Patrick O'Donnell
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Literature and society--History--20th century.--United States
Literature and history--History--20th century.--United States