Judie Newman

Utopia and Terror in Contemporary American Fiction (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the quest for/failure of Utopia across a range of contemporary American/transnational fictions in relation to terror and globalization through authors such as Susan Choi, André Dubus, Dalia Sofer, and John Updike. Newman explores topics such as the first American bestseller with a Muslim protagonist, the links between writer and terrorist, the work of Iranian-Jewish Americans, and the relation of race and religion to Utopian thought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136774874
• Artikelnr.: 41212225

Autorenporträt

Judie Newman is Professor of American Studies at The University of Nottingham, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Rotten with perfection: Kim Edwards
The Secrets of a Fire King. 3.Fiction and the Unabomber: Susan Choi
A Person of Interest. 4.Blowback: André Dubus III
House of Sand and Fog. 5. Falling Woman: André Dubus III
The Garden of Last Days 6. Pictures from a Revolution: Dalia Sofer
The Septembers of Shiraz 7.Updike's Many Worlds: Local and Global in Toward the End of Time. 8.The Black Atlantic as Dystopia: Bernardine Evaristo
Blonde Roots. 9.Disaster Utopias: Chitra Divakaruni
One Amazing Thing.