American unexceptionalism
Subtitle: the everyman and the suburban novel after 9/11
By: Kathy Knapp
Series: The New American Canon : the Iowa series in contemporary literature and culture
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9781609382285; 9781609382513
Subjects: American fiction; History and criticism; Suburban life in literature; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Influence; American Authors; Political and social views
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The canonical everyman: Richard Ford's Frank Bascombe novels and the challenge to neoliberal suburbia.; title: The assimilated everyman and the business of forgetting: postwar living memorials and the posttraumatic suburb in Chang-Rae Lee's aloft; title: How to live: the case for failure in Jonathan Franzen's freedom; title: Dead man walking: Philip Roth's engagement with the everyman tradition and the reimagination of middle-class identity; title: That's what she said: the everyman in recent suburban fiction by Anne Tyler, Gish Jen, and A.M. Homes.