American Fiction of the 1990s
Reflections of history and culture
Herausgeber: Prosser, Jay
American Fiction of the 1990s
Reflections of history and culture
Herausgeber: Prosser, Jay
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This volume reads the incredibly rich body of 1990s American fiction in the context of key cultural concerns of the period. It examines texts by established authors such as Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, Thomas Pynchon, Sherman Alexie, Chang-rae Lee, E. Annie Proulx, David Foster Wallace and Jonathan Franzen.
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This volume reads the incredibly rich body of 1990s American fiction in the context of key cultural concerns of the period. It examines texts by established authors such as Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, Thomas Pynchon, Sherman Alexie, Chang-rae Lee, E. Annie Proulx, David Foster Wallace and Jonathan Franzen.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Routledge
- Seitenzahl: 256
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2008
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 216mm x 142mm x 20mm
- Gewicht: 408g
- ISBN-13: 9780415435666
- ISBN-10: 0415435668
- Artikelnr.: 25683095
- Verlag: Routledge
- Seitenzahl: 256
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2008
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 216mm x 142mm x 20mm
- Gewicht: 408g
- ISBN-13: 9780415435666
- ISBN-10: 0415435668
- Artikelnr.: 25683095
Jay Prosser
1. Introduction - Jay Prosser. Transnational Borders. 2. Outside In:
Latino/a Un-bordering in US Fiction - A. Robert Lee. 3. "Come change your
destiny, turn suffering into silver and joy": Constituting Americans -
Nahem Yousaf. 4. America as Diaphor: Cultural Translation in Bharati
Mukherjee's The Holder of the World - Krishna Sen. Race Cathexes. 5. Red,
White and Black: Racial Exchanges in Fiction by Sherman Alexie - Andrew
Dix. 6. In the Shadow of the Gun: African-American Fiction and the
Anxieties of Nostalgia - Andrew Warnes. 7. Tragic No More?: The
Reappearance of the Racially Mixed Character - Suzanne W. Jones.
Historical Narratives. 8. The Way We Were(n't): Origins and Empire in
Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon - Stacey Olster. 9. Contesting the
Historical Pastoral in Philip Roth's American Trilogy - Derek Parker Royal.
10. Skating on a shit field: Tim O'Brien and the topography of trauma -
Brian Jarvis. Sex Images. 11. A Painful Progress: Queer Fiction and the
American Protest Literature Tradition - Zoe Trodd. 12. Regular Lolitas: The
Afterlives of an American Adolescent - Kasia Boddy. 13. Glamorama, Fight
Club, and the Terror of Narcissistic Abjection - Alex Blazer. Postmodern
Technologies. 14. Beyond the Cold War in Don DeLillo's Mao II and
Underworld - Peter Knight. 15. Selfless Cravings: Addiction and Recovery in
David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest - Timothy Aubry. 16. The End of
Postmodernism: American Fiction at the Millennium - Stephen J. Burn.
Latino/a Un-bordering in US Fiction - A. Robert Lee. 3. "Come change your
destiny, turn suffering into silver and joy": Constituting Americans -
Nahem Yousaf. 4. America as Diaphor: Cultural Translation in Bharati
Mukherjee's The Holder of the World - Krishna Sen. Race Cathexes. 5. Red,
White and Black: Racial Exchanges in Fiction by Sherman Alexie - Andrew
Dix. 6. In the Shadow of the Gun: African-American Fiction and the
Anxieties of Nostalgia - Andrew Warnes. 7. Tragic No More?: The
Reappearance of the Racially Mixed Character - Suzanne W. Jones.
Historical Narratives. 8. The Way We Were(n't): Origins and Empire in
Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon - Stacey Olster. 9. Contesting the
Historical Pastoral in Philip Roth's American Trilogy - Derek Parker Royal.
10. Skating on a shit field: Tim O'Brien and the topography of trauma -
Brian Jarvis. Sex Images. 11. A Painful Progress: Queer Fiction and the
American Protest Literature Tradition - Zoe Trodd. 12. Regular Lolitas: The
Afterlives of an American Adolescent - Kasia Boddy. 13. Glamorama, Fight
Club, and the Terror of Narcissistic Abjection - Alex Blazer. Postmodern
Technologies. 14. Beyond the Cold War in Don DeLillo's Mao II and
Underworld - Peter Knight. 15. Selfless Cravings: Addiction and Recovery in
David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest - Timothy Aubry. 16. The End of
Postmodernism: American Fiction at the Millennium - Stephen J. Burn.
1. Introduction - Jay Prosser. Transnational Borders. 2. Outside In:
Latino/a Un-bordering in US Fiction - A. Robert Lee. 3. "Come change your
destiny, turn suffering into silver and joy": Constituting Americans -
Nahem Yousaf. 4. America as Diaphor: Cultural Translation in Bharati
Mukherjee's The Holder of the World - Krishna Sen. Race Cathexes. 5. Red,
White and Black: Racial Exchanges in Fiction by Sherman Alexie - Andrew
Dix. 6. In the Shadow of the Gun: African-American Fiction and the
Anxieties of Nostalgia - Andrew Warnes. 7. Tragic No More?: The
Reappearance of the Racially Mixed Character - Suzanne W. Jones.
Historical Narratives. 8. The Way We Were(n't): Origins and Empire in
Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon - Stacey Olster. 9. Contesting the
Historical Pastoral in Philip Roth's American Trilogy - Derek Parker Royal.
10. Skating on a shit field: Tim O'Brien and the topography of trauma -
Brian Jarvis. Sex Images. 11. A Painful Progress: Queer Fiction and the
American Protest Literature Tradition - Zoe Trodd. 12. Regular Lolitas: The
Afterlives of an American Adolescent - Kasia Boddy. 13. Glamorama, Fight
Club, and the Terror of Narcissistic Abjection - Alex Blazer. Postmodern
Technologies. 14. Beyond the Cold War in Don DeLillo's Mao II and
Underworld - Peter Knight. 15. Selfless Cravings: Addiction and Recovery in
David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest - Timothy Aubry. 16. The End of
Postmodernism: American Fiction at the Millennium - Stephen J. Burn.
Latino/a Un-bordering in US Fiction - A. Robert Lee. 3. "Come change your
destiny, turn suffering into silver and joy": Constituting Americans -
Nahem Yousaf. 4. America as Diaphor: Cultural Translation in Bharati
Mukherjee's The Holder of the World - Krishna Sen. Race Cathexes. 5. Red,
White and Black: Racial Exchanges in Fiction by Sherman Alexie - Andrew
Dix. 6. In the Shadow of the Gun: African-American Fiction and the
Anxieties of Nostalgia - Andrew Warnes. 7. Tragic No More?: The
Reappearance of the Racially Mixed Character - Suzanne W. Jones.
Historical Narratives. 8. The Way We Were(n't): Origins and Empire in
Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon - Stacey Olster. 9. Contesting the
Historical Pastoral in Philip Roth's American Trilogy - Derek Parker Royal.
10. Skating on a shit field: Tim O'Brien and the topography of trauma -
Brian Jarvis. Sex Images. 11. A Painful Progress: Queer Fiction and the
American Protest Literature Tradition - Zoe Trodd. 12. Regular Lolitas: The
Afterlives of an American Adolescent - Kasia Boddy. 13. Glamorama, Fight
Club, and the Terror of Narcissistic Abjection - Alex Blazer. Postmodern
Technologies. 14. Beyond the Cold War in Don DeLillo's Mao II and
Underworld - Peter Knight. 15. Selfless Cravings: Addiction and Recovery in
David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest - Timothy Aubry. 16. The End of
Postmodernism: American Fiction at the Millennium - Stephen J. Burn.