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The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle - The Ethnic Resonance of Genre (Paperback, New edition)
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The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle - The Ethnic Resonance of Genre (Paperback, New edition)
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James Nagel offers the first systematic history and definition of
the short story cycle genre as exemplified in contemporary American
fiction, bringing attention to the format's wide appeal among
various ethnic groups. He examines in detail eight recent
manifestations of the story cycle, all praised by critics while
uniformly misidentified as novels: Love Medicine, by Louise
Erdrich; Annie John, by Jamaica Kincaid; Monkeys, by Susan Minot;
The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros; The Things They
Carried, by Tim O'Brien; How the Garia Girls Lost Their Accents, by
Julia Alvarez; The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan; and A Good Scent from
a Strange Mountain, by Robert Olen Butler. Nagel proposes that the
short-story cycle, with its concentric as opposed to linear plot
development possibilities, lends itself particularly well to
exploring themes of ethnic assimilation, which mirror some of the
major issues facing American society today.
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