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04629aam a2200457 i 4500 001 3AFF3BE2475911E7B35354A3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170602010157 008 170403s2017 scu b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2016057342 020 $a 1611177642 020 $a 9781611177640 035 $a (OCoLC)960838039 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3619.H79 $b Z65 2017 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 084 $a SOC008000 $a SOC008000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Hamilton, Geoff, $d 1972- $e author. 245 10 $a Understanding Gary Shteyngart / $c Geoff Hamilton. 264 1 $a Columbia, South Carolina : $b University of South Carolina Press, $c [2017] 300 $a 142 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Understanding contemporary American literature 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Understanding Gary Shteyngart, the first comprehensive examination of Shteyngart's novels and memoir, introduces readers to one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful contemporary American authors. Born in Leningrad in 1972, Shteyngart immigrated to the United States in 1979, attended Oberlin College and the City University of New York, and currently teaches in the Writing Program at Columbia University. His novels include Super Sad True Love Story, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize; Absurdistan, chosen as one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times Book Review and Time magazine; and The Russian Debutante's Handbook, winner of the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. Geoff Hamilton studies three broad, overlapping elements of Shteyngart's work: his construction of Russian-Jewish identity in the United States, his appraisal of communism's imaginative legacy for the wider East European diaspora and former Soviet republics, and his representation of the deadening effects of late capitalism. Focusing on Shteyngart's themes of the fracturing and decay of ethnic identities, the limits and pitfalls of multiculturalism, and the decline of privacy and civility against the creeping power of technological mediation, Hamilton also tracks the author's playful manipulation of literary traditions and his incisive revision of seminal mythologies of Russian, Jewish, and American selfhood. Although Shteyngart has sometimes been pigeon-holed as an immigrant author working a rather marginal ethnic shtick, Hamilton demonstrates that Shteyngart's work deserves attention for its remarkable centrality, that is, its relevance to core questions of identity formation and the conditions of belief common to globalized societies. "-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "Understanding Gary Shteyngart, the first comprehensive examination of Shteyngart's novels and memoir, introduces readers to one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful contemporary American authors. Born in Leningrad in 1972, Shteyngart immigrated to the United States in 1979, attended Oberlin College and the City University of New York, and currently teaches in the Writing Program at Columbia University. His novels include Super Sad True Love Story, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize; Absurdistan, chosen as one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times Book Review and Time magazine; and The Russian Debutante's Handbook, winner of the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Understanding Gary Shteyngart -- The Russian Debutante's Handbook -- Absurdistan -- Super Sad True Love Story -- Little Failure -- Gary Shteyngart and American Literary Celebrity. 600 10 $a Shteyngart, Gary, $d 1972- $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Shteyngart, Gary, $d 1972- $x Social and political views. 650 0 $a Identity (Psychology) in literature. 650 0 $a Social values in literature. 650 0 $a Jews in literature. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General. $2 bisacsh 776 08 $i Online version: $a Hamilton, Geoff, 1972- author. $t Understanding Gary Shteyngart $d Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, 2017 $z 9781611177657 $w (DLC) 2017016329 830 0 $a Understanding contemporary American literature. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240403013158.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180116020409.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3AFF3BE2475911E7B35354A3DAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search