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Title:
American fiction of the 1990s : reflections of history and culture / edited by Jay Prosser.
Publisher:
Routledge,
Copyright Date:
2008
Description:
xi, 244 p. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.
Literature and history--United States--History--20th century.
History in literature.
Social problems in literature.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Nineteen nineties.
Other Authors:
Prosser, Jay.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The end of postmodernism : American fiction at the millennium / Outside in : Latino/a un-bordering in US fiction / Stephen J. Burn. "Come change your destiny, turn suffering into silver and joy" : constituting Americans / Nahem Yousaf ; America as diaphor : cultural translation in Bharati Mukherjee's The holder of the world / Krishna Sen -- Race cathexes. Red, white, and black : racial exchanges in fiction by Sherman Alexie / Andrew Dix ; In the shadow of the gun : African-American fiction and the anxieties of nostalgia / Andrew Warnes ; Tragic no more? : the reappearance of the racially mixed character / Suzanne W. Jones -- Historical narratives. The way we were(n't) : origins and empire in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon / Stacey Olster ; Contesting the historical pastoral in Philip Roth's American trilogy / Derek Parker Royal ; Skating on a shit field : Tim O'Brien and the topography of trauma / Brian Jarvis -- Sex images. A painful progress : queer fiction and the American protest literature tradition / Zoe Trodd ; Regular Lolitas : the afterlives of an American adolescent / Kasia Boddy ; Glamorama, Fight club, and the terror of narcissistic abjection / Alex E. Blazer -- Postmodern technologies. Beyond the Cold War in Don DeLillo's Mao II and Underworld / Peter Knight ; Selfless cravings : addiction and recovery in David Foster Wallace's Infinite jest / Timothy Aubry ; The end of postmodernism : American fiction at the millennium / Stephen J. Burn.
ISBN:
0203091043 (e-book)
9780203091043 (e-book)
0415435676 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780415435673 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0415435668 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780415435666 (hardback : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)191865411
LCCN:
2008004058
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)

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