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Jane Smiley, Jonathan Franzen, Don DeLillo - Narratives of Everyday Justice (Hardcover, New edition)
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Jane Smiley, Jonathan Franzen, Don DeLillo - Narratives of Everyday Justice (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Modern American Literature, 60
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The novels of Jane Smiley, Jonathan Franzen, and Don DeLillo
propose new readings of justice in contemporary American
literature. Jason S. Polley argues that such distinctive writers as
Smiley, Franzen, and DeLillo reconfigure what he calls "acts of
justice" in various modalities and spaces. These authors
re-conceptualize justice in their portrayals of peripheral groups,
such as women, minorities, and outcasts. In lieu of fictionalizing
justice in conventional courtrooms, these writers' narratives make
a virtue of representing the undetermined and everyday presence of
justice. As a result, Smiley, Franzen, and DeLillo succeed in
demonstrating the ordinariness of personal concerns with justice.
Loosely tracing a legacy of justice in American literature, this
book also compares contemporary American narratives to canonized
earlier American novels, such as Melville's Moby Dick, James's The
Bostonians, and Norris's McTeague. The book likewise examines
contemporary writers like Joyce Carol Oates and Toni Morrison.
Polley concludes by observing that justice in contemporary American
life is not about closure, but is an open-ended practice of human
action, a theory that corresponds to postmodern theories of
narrative.
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