Title: Fictive fathers in the contemporary American novel /
Authors: Shostak, Debra B.
Year: 2020
Subjects: Fathers in literature; Father and child in literature; American fiction History and criticism; American fiction History and criticism.; American fiction; Father and child in literature; Fathers in literature
Abstract: "Investigates the unstable construction of white masculinity in the United States through close analysis of father-child relationships in the novels of 18 American writers in the late 20th and early 21st centuries"--
Contents: Introduction -- Anxieties of Influence and the Decline of the Patriarch -- Middle-class America at Mid-century -- Desiring Daughters -- Searching Sons, the Word, and the Flesh -- The Father in the Apocalyptic Imagination. Part One: The Environment -- Searching Sons, the Word, and the Flesh -- The Fatherr in the Apocalyptic Imagination. Part One: The Environment -- The Father in the Apocalyptic Imagination. Part Two: Politics and 9/11 -- Postmemory after the Patriarch: Narrating the War in Vietnam.