American Fiction of the 1990s: Reflections of History and Culture
brings together essays from international experts to examine one of
the most vital and energized decades in American literature. This
volume reads the rich body of 1990s American fiction in the context
of key cultural concerns of the period. The issues that the
contributors identify as especially productive include: Immigration
and America's geographical borders, particularly those with Latin
America Racial tensions, race relations and racial exchanges
Historical memory and the recording of history Sex, scandal and the
politicization of sexuality Postmodern technologies, terrorism and
paranoia American Fiction of the 1990s examines texts by
established authors such as Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth
and Thomas Pynchon, who write some of their most ambitious work in
the period, but also by emergent writers, such as Sherman Alexie,
Chang-Rae Lee, E. Annie Proulx, David Foster Wallace, and Jonathan
Franzen. Offering new insight into both the literature and the
culture of the period, as well as the interaction between the two
in a way that furthers the New American Studies, this volume will
be essential reading for students and lecturers of American
literature and culture and late twentieth-century fiction.
Contributors include: Timothy Aubry, Alex Blazer, Kasia Boddy,
Stephen J. Burn, Andrew Dix, Brian Jarvis, Suzanne W. Jones, Peter
Knight, A. Robert Lee, Stacey Olster, Derek Parker Royal, Krishna
Sen, Zoe Trodd, Andrew Warnes and Nahem Yousaf.
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