Bibliograph

American unexceptionalism, the everyman and the suburban novel after 9/11, Kathy Knapp

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American unexceptionalism, the everyman and the suburban novel after 9/11, Kathy Knapp

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

American unexceptionalism

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Responsibility statement

Kathy Knapp

Series statement

New American Canon : the Iowa series in contemporary literature and culture

Sub title

the everyman and the suburban novel after 9/11

Table Of Contents

The canonical everyman: Richard Ford's Frank Bascombe novels and the challenge to neoliberal suburbia. -- The assimilated everyman and the business of forgetting: postwar living memorials and the posttraumatic suburb in Chang-Rae Lee's aloft -- How to live: the case for failure in Jonathan Franzen's freedom -- Dead man walking: Philip Roth's engagement with the everyman tradition and the reimagination of middle-class identity -- That's what she said: the everyman in recent suburban fiction by Anne Tyler, Gish Jen, and A.M. Homes

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