The American Novel Now: Reading Contemporary American Fiction Since 1980ISBN: 978-1-4051-6757-4
Hardcover
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.