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American Fiction in Transition - Observer-Hero Narrative, the 1990s, and Postmodernism (Hardcover, New)
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American Fiction in Transition - Observer-Hero Narrative, the 1990s, and Postmodernism (Hardcover, New)
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American Fiction in Transition is a study of the observer-hero
narrative, a highly significant but critically neglected genre of
the American novel. Through the lens of this transitional genre,
the book explores the 1990s in relation to debates about the end of
postmodernism, and connects the decade to other transitional
periods in US literature. Novels by four major contemporary writers
are examined: Philip Roth, Paul Auster, E. L. Doctorow and Jeffrey
Eugenides. Each novel has a similar structure: an observer-narrator
tells the story of an important person in his life who has died.
But each story is equally about the struggle to tell the story, to
find adequate means to narrate the transitional quality of the
hero's life. In playing out this narrative struggle, each novel
thereby addresses the broader problem of historical transition, a
problem that marks the legacy of the postmodern era in American
literature and culture.
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