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The Cambridge Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction
Artikel-Nr:
9781107627178
Veröffentl:
2019
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
22.03.2019
Seiten:
270
Autor:
Stacey Olster
Gewicht:
396 g
Format:
229x152x15 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Stacey Olster is Professor of English at Stony Brook University, a former Fulbright Fellow Scholar, and an award-winning teacher. She is the author of Reminiscence and Re-Creation in Contemporary American Fiction (Cambridge, 1989) and The Trash Phenomenon: Contemporary Literature, Popular Culture, and the Making of the American Century (2003), and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to John Updike (Cambridge, 2006) and Don DeLillo: Mao II, Underworld, Falling Man (2011). Her articles on contemporary American literature and culture have appeared in essay collections and journals such as Modern Fiction Studies, Critical Inquiry, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Critique.
This Introduction explores American fiction of the last thirty years, examining the political and cultural changes that distinguish the period.
Introduction: from Sweet Home to homeland; 1. History and the novel; 2. Regional realism; 3. The contemporary political novel; 4. The novel and 9/11; 5. Smooth worlds; 6. Borderlands and border identities; 7. Race relations; Conclusion: postscripts and post-postmodernism; Works cited; Index.