American Literature in Transition, 1980-1990 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Miller, D. Quentin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

History has not been kind to the 1980s. The decade is often associated with absurd fashion choices, neo-Conservatism in the Reagan/Bush years, the AIDS crisis, Wall Street ethics, and uninspired television, film, and music. Yet the literature of the 1980s is undeniably rich and lasting. American Literature in Transition, 1980-1990 seeks to frame some of the decade's greatest achievements such as Toni Morrison's monumental novel Beloved and to consider some of the trends that began in the 1980s and developed thereafter, including the origins of the graphic novel, prison literature, and the opening of multiculturalism vis-a-vis the 'canon wars'. This volume argues not only for the importance of 1980s American literature, but also for its centrality in understanding trends and trajectories in all contemporary literature against the broader background of culture. This volume serves as both an introduction and a deep consideration of the literary culture of our most maligned decade.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108244794
• Artikelnr.: 50527293

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the screen and the page D. Quentin Miller; 1. Magic, meet
realism: world mythology on American soil D. Quentin Miller; 2. Youth
culture on the skids: Generation X and Brat Pack fiction Kevin L. Ferguson;
3. Womanism Kameelah Martin; 4. Revisiting masculinity Josef Benson; 5. The
ghosts of history (1): the Holocaust reexamined S. Lillian Kremer; 6. The
ghosts of history (2): narrative authority and contemporaneous social
subjectivity in the neo-slave narrative Beauty Bragg; 7. The enduring
literary legacy of the Vietnam War Walter W. Hölbling; 8. 'How did I get
here?': Roth, Updike, and the embarrassment of riches Kathy Knapp; 9. A
prison nation and freedom dreams: 1980s literature of incarceration Katy
Ryan; 10. The horror! The Stephen King industry Carl Sederholm; 11. Poetry,
language, and history in the 1980s Thomas Gardner; 12. 'An imaginary
story': comic books and graphic novels in the 1980s Brian Cremins; 13. 'Pop
operas, or Broadway sells T-Shirts! Colleen Rua; 14. Working-class fiction
and 'dirty realism' Evan Brier; 15. The surge of Latino lit Ilan Stavans;
16. The culture wars and the canon debate Mary Jo Bona; 17. 'We are the
world, we are the children': 1980s world literature bears witness to
US-American exceptionalism and imperialism Nicole Sparling; 18. Literature
in an age of plague: the AIDS epidemic Tyler Bradway; 19. Libertarian
fictions: violence and the free-market radicalism of 1980s literature
Thomas Heise; 20. Neoconservative ascendancy, the Reagan Age, and
literature's response Bob Batchelor; 21. The literature of high finance in
the 1980s Leigh Claire LaBerge; 22. From nuclear fear to shades of gray:
the end of the Cold War Steven Belletto.