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The American Novel Now: Reading Contemporary American Fiction Since 1980

ISBN: 978-1-4051-6757-4
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248 pages
February 2010, Wiley-Blackwell
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Acknowledgements.

Preface.

Part I: Before 1980.

Part II: From New Realisms to Postmodernism.

This American Life”.

"Dirty Realisms".

Only Wor(l)ds.

Magnifying Reality, Multiplying Genre.

Part III: Becoming Identities.

Reinventing Character.

Racing Identity.

Engendering Narrative.

Toward the Posthuman.

Part IV: What Happened to History?

The Past is Prologue.

Tunneling In.

Imagining Epoch.

Another History.

Catastrophe:  The Ends of History.

Part V:  Relations Stopping Nowhere.

The Postnuclear Family.

The Reach of Community.

Nation and Migration:  From There to Here.

Epilogue.

Notes.

References.

Index.

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