identity and resistance in the contemporary American novel /
Cathy Moses
xi, 172 pages ;
23 cm
Literary criticism and cultural theory
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-165) and index
Introduction : the dissenting subject -- The unbearable whiteness of being and the Africanist presence in Russell Bank's Continental Drift -- Playing in history's dark : the struggle for agency in Toni Morrison's Jazz -- Identity, masculinity, and desire in David Bradley's fiction -- The center of power is nothing : storytelling, history, and resistance in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead -- Queering class : Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues
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American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism
American fiction-- Minority authors-- History and criticism
Dissenters in literature
Ethnic groups in literature
Ethnicity in literature
Group identity in literature
Identity (Psychology) in literature
Minorities in literature
Political fiction, American-- History and criticism
Politics and literature-- United States
Protest literature, American-- History and criticism