The American novel now, reading contemporary American fiction since 1980, Patrick O'Donnell
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The American novel now, reading contemporary American fiction since 1980, Patrick O'Donnell
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The American novel now
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Patrick O'Donnell
Sub title
reading contemporary American fiction since 1980
Table Of Contents
Part I: Before 1980 -- Part II: From new realisms to postmodernism -- "This American Life" -- "Dirty Realisms" -- Only wor(l)ds -- Magnifying reality, multiplying genre -- Part III: Becoming identities -- Reinventing character -- Racing identity -- Engendering narrative -- Toward the posthuman -- Part IV: What happened to history? -- The past is prologue -- Tunneling in -- Imagining epoch -- Another history -- Narrating Vietnam -- Catastrophe: The Ends of history -- Part V: Relations stopping nowhere -- The Postnuclear family -- The reach of community -- From there to here: migration and nation
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