reading contemporary American fiction since 1980 /
First Statement of Responsibility
Patrick O'Donnell.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Malden, MA :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Wiley-Blackwell,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2010.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xi, 234 p. ;
Dimensions
23 cm.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-227) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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
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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
Literature and society-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
Literature and history-- United States-- History-- 20th century.