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
American fiction, 20th century, History and criticism
Literature and society, United States, History, 20th century
Literature and history, United States, History, 20th century