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The tribe of Pyn : literary generations in the postmodern period /
"In The Tribe of Pyn, Cowart offers illuminating readings of several important novelists now at the height of their powers, whose work has received fairly limited scholarly attention thus far. Jonathan Franzen, Alice Walker, David Foster Wallace, Gloria Naylor, Richard Powers, and a raft of oth...
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Contents; Proem: Postmodernism (Again); Introduction: Literary Generations in the Postmodern Period; Chapter 1. Fantasy and Reality in Rachel Ingalls's Mrs. Caliban; Chapter 2. Colonized Tongue, Colonized Pen: Heritage and Deracination in Alice Walker's "Everyday Use"; Chapter 3. Braid of Blood: Michael Dorris's A Yellow Raft in Blue Water; Chapter 4. Matriarchal Mythopoesis: Gloria Naylor's Mama Day; Chapter 5. The Jeffersonian Vision in Steve Erickson's Arc d'X; Chapter 6. Passionate Pathography: Narrative as Pharmakon in Richard Powers's Operation Wandering Soul.
- Chapter 7. Anger, Anguish, and Art: Chuck Palahniuk's ChokeChapter 8. The Aim Was Song: Ann Patchett's Bel Canto; Chapter 9. The Sorrows of Young Icarus: Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves; Chapter 10. Thirteen Ways of Looking: Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad; Conclusion: The Emperor Writes Back; Notes; Bibliography; Index.