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 H eg, 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.
Author: Judie Newman
Publisher: Legenda
Published: 01/09/2023
Pages: 358
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.74d
ISBN13: 9781781883327
ISBN10: 1781883327
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American | General
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Collections | Essays
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