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The Cambridge companion to American fiction after 1945 /
"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 sch...
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Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press,
c2012.
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| Series: | Cambridge companions to literature
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| Online Access: | http://books.google.co.in/books?id=vMClokiW1jYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Cambridge+companion+to+American+fiction+after+1945&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HdZyVPbLKpafugT584DYCg&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=The%20Cambridge%20companion%20to%20American%20fiction%20after%201945&f=false |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction: a story of the stories of American fiction after 1945 John N. Duvall; Part I. Poetics and Genres: 1. Postmodern metafiction Amy Elias; 2. Contemporary realism Robert Rebein; 3. New journalism and the non-fiction novel Stacey Olser; 4. Science fiction Philip 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 Elliot; 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 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; Index.