Russell Banks
Subtitle: in search of freedom
By: Kevin T. McEneaney.
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780313381652; 9780313381669
Subjects: Banks, Russell, -- 1940- -- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: American odyssey: blue-collar intellectual; title: Finding a voice: early stories; title: Parables of inside-out: early novellas; title: Ironic conundrum: Hamilton Stark; title: Limits of liberalism: the book of Jamaica; title: Homeric grotesque: trailerpark; title: Mainstream realism and zombies: continental drift; title: Naturalism as postmodern parable: affliction; title: Oedipus in the Adirondacks: the sweet hereafter; title: Rambling picaresque: rule of the bone; title: Hologram pics: angel on the roof; title: Resurrection of John Brown: cloudsplitter; title: Radical irony: the darling; title: Rural noir: the reserve; title: Postmodern realism: audience and the writer.