Alexander H. Pitofsky

American Boarding School Fiction, 1981-2021

Inclusion and Scandal

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Produktbeschreibung

American Boarding School Fiction, 1981-2021: Inclusion and Scandal is a study of contemporary American boarding-school narratives. It discusses a new generation of writers who have made American school fiction far more inclusive and wide-ranging than it was in the era dominated by best sellers such as J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye and John Knowles's A Separate Peace.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 501g
• ISBN-13: 9781666901931
• ISBN-10: 1666901938
• Artikelnr.: 65695934

Autorenporträt

By Alexander H. Pitofsky

Inhaltsangabe

American Boarding School Fiction
1981-2021: Inclusion and Scandal is a study of contemporary American boarding-school narratives. Before the 1980s
writers of American boarding-school fiction tended to concentrate on mournful teenagers - the center was filled with students: white
male
Protestant students at boys' schools. More recently
a new generation of writers-including Richard A. Hawley
Anita Shreve
Curtis Sittenfeld
and Tobias Wolff-has transformed school fiction by highlighting issues relating to gender
race
scandal
sexuality
education
and social class in unprecedented ways. These new writers present characters who are rich and underprivileged
white and Black
male and female
adolescent and middle-aged
conformist and rebellious. By turning their attention away from the bruised feelings of teenagers
they have reinvented American boarding-school fiction
writing vividly about a host of subjects the genre overlooked in the past.