
Contemporary Fictions
Essays on American and Postcolonial Narratives
Judie Newman(Author)
Legenda (Publisher)
Published on 28. September 2020
Book
Hardback
358 pages
978-1-78188-329-7 (ISBN)
Description
What does it mean to be contemporary? To write contemporary fiction? In this major collection of twenty-five essays Newman interrogates the value of the concept of "the contemporary" as a cultural and literary category, exploring novels and short fiction by American and postcolonial writers, including Marilynne Robinson, John Updike, Saul Bellow, Grace Paley, Nadine Gordimer, J. G. Farrell, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Bharati Mukherjee, Peter Høeg, Dalia Sofer and André Dubus III, among others. In a sophisticated interrogation of the politics (and sexual politics) of narrative technique, Newman engages with major intellectual currents of the period, drawing upon thinkers such as Michel Serres, Guy Debord, Erving Goffman, Camille Paglia, Marcel Mauss, Julia Kristeva, Mary Douglas, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick to analyse fictional representations of the Holocaust, the struggle against apartheid, Vietnam, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Iranian revolution and the aftermath of Empire.
Judie Newman is Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of Nottingham and has published widely in the fields of American and Postcolonial literature.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leeds
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Modern Humanities Research Association
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
797 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78188-329-7 (9781781883297)
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