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Place in Recent North American Fiction
Published on 19. March 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-87-7288-370-0 (ISBN)
Description
This survey of the significance of place in recent North American fiction includes chapters on Indian tent rings, the black search for place in America, the sense of place in William Styron's 'Sophie's Choice', and Flannery O'Connor's displaced persons.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Aarhus
Denmark
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-87-7288-370-0 (9788772883700)
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Content
Patrick Lane; Indian tent rings; David Kranes; space and literature; James I. Mc Clintock; Gary Snyder and re-inhabiting place; Richard E. Fisher; space in recent native American fiction; Darlene Erickson, Toni Morrison - the black search for place in America; Ellen W. Munley; spatial metaphors in Anne Hebert's "Les enfants du sabbat", Joseph C. Schopp; strategies of replacement; Regine Rosenthal; defying taboos - the sense of place in William Styron's "Sophie's Choice"; Karl-Heinz Westarp; Flannery O'Connor's displaced persons; Jan Nordby Gretlund, lost in the cosmos - place in Walker Percy.