American Novel Now Reading Contemporary American Fiction Since 1980

Name: American Novel Now Reading Contemporary American Fiction Since 1980
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ISBN: 9781405167550

ISBN-10: 1405167556

ISBN-13: 9781405167550

Edition: 2009

Authors: Patrick O'Donnell

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Contemporary American fiction since 1980 is known for its remarkable liveliness, diversity, and rigour. The American Novel Now navigates this exciting and vast terrain, offering a symptomatic reading of contemporary American fiction that considers both mainstream and experimental writing from over 70 different authors and novels. Featured authors include Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Louise Erdrich, Don DeLillo, Richard Powers, Kathy Acker and many more.Written in a lively and accessible style, the book explores a wide range of themes offered in the wealth of contemporary American fiction, including identity, history, family, nation, and aesthetics, as well as cultural movements, styles,…

Book details

Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 1/22/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.04" wide x 9.02" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Preface



Before 1980



From New Realisms to Postmodernism


This American Life


"Dirty Realisms"


Only Wor(l)ds


Magnifying Reality, Multiplying Genre



Becoming Identities


Reinventing Character


Racing Identity


Engendering Narrative


Toward the Posthuman



What Happened to History?


The Past is Prologue


Tunneling In


Imagining Epoch


Another History


Catastrophe:


The Ends of History



Relations Stopping Nowhere


The Postnuclear Family


The Reach of Community


Nation and Migration:


From There to Here


Epilogue


Notes


References


Index