Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-190) and index.
The West coast offense -- Red letters : Hester Prynne in India and Arizona -- In the missionary position : Emily Prager in China -- Black Atlantic or Black Athena? globalising the African-American story -- Local life, global death : David Bradley's surrogate stories -- Going global : from Danish postcolonial novel to world bestseller -- Southern apes: McCarthy's neotenous killers -- Priority narratives : Bharati Mukherjee's Desirable daughters.
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'Fictions of America' looks at the ways in which India, China and Africa can be said to have underwritten American culture, how literature has been marketed globally, and how novelists have answered back to power with resistant fictions.