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The Cambridge companion to American fiction after 1945 / [edited by] John N. Duvall.

Duvall, John N. (John Noel), 1956-
2012
PS379 .C26 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
The Cambridge companion to American fiction after 1945 / [edited by] John N. Duvall.
ISBN
9780521196314
0521196310
9780521123471 (pbk.)
052112347X (pbk.)
Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
xvi, 271 pages ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PS379 .C26 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.5409
Summary
"Each generation revises literary history and this is nowhere more evident than in the post-Second World War period. This Companion offers a comprehensive, authoritative and accessible overview of the diversity of American fiction since the Second World War. Essays by nineteen distinguished scholars provide critical insights into the significant genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors during a period of enormous American global political and cultural power. This power is overshadowed, nevertheless, by national anxieties growing out of events ranging from the Civil Rights Movement to the rise of feminism; from the Cold War and its fear of Communism and nuclear warfare to the Age of Terror and its different yet related fears of the 'Other'. American fiction since 1945 has faithfully chronicled these anxieties. An essential reference guide, this Companion provides a chronology of the period, as well as guides to further reading"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Duvall, John N. (John Noel), 1956-
Series
Cambridge companions to literature.
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Introduction: a story of the stories of American fiction after 1945 / John N. Duvall
Part I. Poetics and Genres: 1. Postmodern metafiction / Amy J. Elias
2. Contemporary realism / Robert Rebein
3. New journalism and the nonfiction novel / Stacey Olster
4. Science fiction / Phillip E. Wegner
5. The short story / Susan Lohafer
Part II. Historical and Cultural Contexts: 6. African American fiction / Keith Byerman
7. American Indian fiction / Nancy J. Peterson
8. Multiethnicities: Latino/a and Asian American fiction / A. Robert Lee
9. American Jewish fiction / Victoria Aarons
10. Feminist fiction / Jane Elliott
11. Southern fiction / Martyn Bone
12. Fiction and the Cold War / Alan Nadel
13. Fiction and 9/11 / John N. Duvall
Part III. Major Authors: 14. Ralph Ellison / Nicole A. Waligora-Davis
15. Flannery O'Connor / Jay Watson
16. Thomas Pynchon / Brian Jarvis
17. Toni Morrison / Linden Peach
18. Don DeLillo / Laura Barrett
Conclusion: whither American fiction? / Jessica Pressman.

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