The American novel now
Subtitle: reading contemporary American fiction since 1980
By: Patrick O'Donnell
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781405167550
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-227) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Before 1980; title: Part II: From new realisms to postmodernism; title: "This American Life"; title: "Dirty Realisms"; title: Only wor(l)ds; title: Magnifying reality, multiplying genre; title: Part III: Becoming identities; title: Reinventing character; title: Racing identity; title: Engendering narrative; title: Toward the posthuman; title: Part IV: What happened to history?; title: The past is prologue; title: Tunneling in; title: Imagining epoch; title: Another history; title: Narrating Vietnam; title: Catastrophe: The Ends of history; title: Part V: Relations stopping nowhere; title: The Postnuclear family; title: The reach of community; title: From there to here: migration and nation