American Unexceptionalism : The Everyman and the Suburban Novel after 9/11 /

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Its foundation. In doing so, the novels examined here offer readers new and flexible ways to imagine being and belonging in a setting no longer characterized by stasis, but by flux.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Knapp, Kathy, 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Vorstadt > Motiv
Amerikanisches Englisch
Roman
Suburban life in literature.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Authors, American > Political and social views.
American fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Écrivains americains > 21e siecle > Pensee politique et sociale.
Vie de la banlieue dans la litterature.
Roman americain > 21e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Authors, American > 21st century > Political and social views.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 > Influence.
American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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