The Non-National in Contemporary American Literature

The Non-National in Contemporary American Literature
Title The Non-National in Contemporary American Literature PDF eBook
Author Dalia M.A. Gomaa
Publisher Springer
Pages 206
Release 2016-04-08
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1137496266

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In this wide-ranging study, Gomma examines contemporary migrant narratives by Arab-American, Chicana, Indian-American, Pakistani-American, and Cuban-American women writers. Concepts such as national consciousness, time, space, and belonging are scrutinized through the "non-national" experience, unsettling notions of a unified America.

Postnational Perspectives on Contemporary Hispanic Literature

Postnational Perspectives on Contemporary Hispanic Literature
Title Postnational Perspectives on Contemporary Hispanic Literature PDF eBook
Author Heike Scharm
Publisher University Press of Florida
Pages 239
Release 2017-10-17
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0813052017

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"Offers an array of disciplinary views on how theories of globalization and an emerging postnational critical imagination have impacted traditional ways of thinking about literature."--Samuel Amago, author of Spanish Cinema in the Global Context: Film on Film Moving beyond the traditional study of Hispanic literature on a nation-by-nation basis, this volume explores how globalization is currently affecting Spanish and Latin American fiction, poetry, and literary theory. Taking a postnational approach, contributors examine works by José Martí, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Junot Díaz, Mario Vargas Llosa, Cecilia Vicuña, Jorge Luis Borges, and other writers. They discuss how expanding worldviews have impacted the way these authors write and how they are read today. Whether analyzing the increasingly popular character of the voluntary exile, the theme of masculinity in This Is How You Lose Her, or the multilingual nature of the Spanish language itself, they show how contemporary Hispanic writers and critics are engaging in cross-cultural literary conversations. Drawing from a range of fields including postcolonial, Latino, gender, exile, and transatlantic studies, these essays help characterize a new "world" literature that reflects changing understandings of memory, belonging, and identity.

Coming of Age in Contemporary American Fiction

Coming of Age in Contemporary American Fiction
Title Coming of Age in Contemporary American Fiction PDF eBook
Author Kenneth Millard
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Pages 200
Release 2007-04-18
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0748629548

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This book explores the ways in which a range of recent American novelists have handled the genre of the 'coming-of-age' novel, or the Bildungsroman. Novels of this genre characteristically dramatise the vicissitudes of growing up and the trials and tribulations of young adulthood, often presented through depictions of immediate family relationships and other social structures. This book considers a variety of different American cultures (in terms of race, class and gender) and a range of contemporary coming-of-age novels, so that aesthetic judgements about the fiction might be made in the context of the social history that fiction represents. A series of questions are asked:* Does the coming-of-age moment in these novels coincide with an interpretation of the 'fall' of America?* What kind of national commentary does it therefore facilitate?* Is the Bildungsroman a quintessentially American genre?* What can it usefully tell us about contemporary American culture? Although the focus is on the conte

Travel and Dislocation in Contemporary American Fiction

Travel and Dislocation in Contemporary American Fiction
Title Travel and Dislocation in Contemporary American Fiction PDF eBook
Author Aliki Varvogli
Publisher Routledge
Pages 181
Release 2012-03-12
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1136627030

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This book offers a critical study and analysis of American fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It focuses on novels that ‘go outward’ literally and metaphorically, and it concentrates on narratives that take place mainly away from the US’s geographical borders. Varvogli draws on current theories of travel globalization and post-national studies, and proposes a dynamic model that will enable scholars to approach contemporary American fiction and assess recent changes and continuities. Concentrating on work by Philip Caputo, Dave Eggers, Norman Rush and Russell Banks, the book proposes that American literature’s engagement with Africa has shifted and needs to be approached using new methodologies. Novels by Amy Tan, Garrison Keillor, Jonathan Safran Foer and Dave Eggers are examined in the context of travel and globalization, and works by Chang-rae Lee, Ethan Canin, Dinaw Mengestu and Jhumpa Lahiri are used as examples of the changing face of the American immigrant novel, and the changing meaning of national belonging.

The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism

The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism
Title The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism PDF eBook
Author Linda Wagner-Martin
Publisher Routledge
Pages 278
Release 2018-10-03
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1351719319

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The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism offers readers a fresh, insightful overview to all genres of postmodern writing. Drawing on a variety of works from not only mainstream authors but also those that are arguably unconventional, renowned scholar Linda Wagner-Martin gives the reader a solid framework and foundation to reading, understanding, and appreciating postmodern literature since its inception through the present day.

Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel

Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel
Title Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel PDF eBook
Author Mazen Naous
Publisher
Pages 240
Release 2020-03-10
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780814214299

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Redefines dominant perceptions of Arab Americans via an aesthetic analysis of Arab American novels, launching transcultural possibilities by initiating visibility through poetics.

Understanding Diane Johnson

Understanding Diane Johnson
Title Understanding Diane Johnson PDF eBook
Author Carolyn A. Durham
Publisher Univ of South Carolina Press
Pages 144
Release 2012-08-27
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1611171989

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Understanding Diane Johnson is a biographical and critical study of a quintessential American novelist who has devoted forty-five years to writing about French and American culture. Johnson, who was nominated for the National Book Award three times and the Pulitzer Prize twice, has been a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books since the 1970s and is the author of more than a dozen fiction and nonfiction volumes. Johnson is well known as a comic novelist who addresses serious social problems. Durham outlines Johnson's continued exploration of women's lives and her experimentation with varied forms of narrative technique and genre parody in the detective novels The Shadow Knows and Lying Low, both award-winning novels. Durham examines Johnson's reinvention of the international novel of manners—inherited from Henry James and Edith Wharton—in her best-selling Franco-American trilogy: Le Divorce, Le Mariage, and L'Affaire. As the first book-length study of this distinguished American writer, Understanding Diane Johnson surveys an extensive body of work and draws critical attention to a well-published, widely read author who was the winner of the California Book Awards Gold Medal for Fiction in 1997.