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The American novel now reading contemporary American fiction since 1980

The American novel now reading contemporary American fiction since 1980

O'Donnell, Patrick 1948-

Book. English.
Published Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, c2010
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    Statement of responsibility: Patrick O'Donnell
    Copyright: 2010
    ISBN: 1405167556, 1405167572, 9781405167550, 9781405167574
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    Note: Pbk.
    Physical Description: xi, 234 p. 23cm
    Subject: Literature and history United States History 20th century; Literature and society United States History 20th century; American fiction 20th century History and criticism

    Contents

    1. Part I: Before 1980
    2. Part II: From new realisms to postmodernism
    3. "This American Life"
    4. "Dirty Realisms"
    5. Only wor(l)ds
    6. Magnifying reality, multiplying genre
    7. Part III: Becoming identities
    8. Reinventing character
    9. Racing identity
    10. Engendering narrative
    11. Toward the posthuman
    12. Part IV: What happened to history?
    13. The past is prologue
    14. Tunneling in
    15. Imagining epoch
    16. Another history
    17. Narrating Vietnam
    18. Catastrophe: The Ends of history
    19. Part V: Relations stopping nowhere
    20. The Postnuclear family
    21. The reach of community
    22. From there to here: migration and nation