A body of individuals : the paradox of community in contemporary fiction /

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"Why are some versions of the collective "we" admired and desired while other versions are scorned and feared? A Body of Individuals: The Paradox of Community in Contemporary Fiction examines the conflict over the collective "we" through discourses of community. In the disco...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lee, Sue-Im, 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
1900-1999
Communities in literature.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Communauté dans la littérature.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
American fiction.
Literatur
Gesellschaft > Motiv
Gemeinschaft > Motiv
Poststrukturalismus
USA.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What ails the individual : community cure in Toni Morrison's Jazz and Paradise
  • "We are not the world" : global community, universalism, and Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange
  • Unlike any other : shoring up the human community in Richard Powers's Galatea 2.2 and Plowing the dark
  • Motion in stasis : impossible community in fictions of Lydia Davis and Lynne Tillman
  • Community as multi-party game : private language in David Markson's Wittgenstein's mistress.

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