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03114aam a2200409 i 4500 001 F3B6913C3D8C11EE8AE814B62EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230818010103 008 220323t20222022nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021061513 020 $a 1501391100 020 $a 9781501391101 020 $a 1501391119 020 $a 9781501391118 035 $a (OCoLC)1290377138 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d NYP $d YDX $d YUS $d SOI $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS374.E825 $b L56 2022 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23/eng/20220323 100 1 $a Limon, John, $e author. 245 10 $a Escape, escapism, escapology : $b American novels of the early twenty-first century / $c John K. Limon. 246 3 $a American novels of the early 21st century 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, $c 2022. 300 $a vi, 239 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "In a major contribution to American studies, John Limon identifies and explores the central theme of American fiction of the first two decades of the 21st century: escapism"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "Escape, Escapism, Escapology: American Novels of the Early Twenty-First Century identifies and explores what has emerged as perhaps the central theme of 21st-century American fiction: the desire to escape--from the commodified present, from directionless history, from moral death--at a time of inescapable globalization. The driving question is how to find an alternative to the world within the world, at a time when utopian and messianic ideals have lost their power to compel belief. John Limon traces the American answer to that question in the writings of some of the most important authors of the last two decades--Chabon, Diaz, Foer, Eggers, Donoghue, Groff, Ward, Saunders, and Whitehead, among others--and finds that it always involves the faux utopian freedom and pseudo-messianic salvation of childhood. When contemporary novelists feature actual historical escape, pervasively from slavery or Nazism, it appears in their novels as escape envy or escape nostalgia--as if globalization like slavery or Nazism could be escaped in a direction, from this place to another. Thus the closing of the world frontier inspires a mirror messianism and utopianism that in US novels can only be rendered as a performative, momentary, chiasmic relationship between precocious kids and their ludic guardians"--Publisher's website. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast 650 0 $a American fiction $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Escape (Psychology) in literature. 650 0 $a Criticism. 650 7 $a American fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807048 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Limon, John. $t Escape, escapism, escapology $d New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022 $z 9781501391095 $w (DLC) 2021061514 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117032846.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F3B6913C3D8C11EE8AE814B62EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search