The Internet has had a huge impact on channels of communication and
information, reaching across time and space to connect the world
through globalisation. In this Internet-led world, story links to
story, windows open on new stories and no overall authority
establishes priority. This sense of globalisation has raised many
questions for contemporary American Novelists, primarily the
usefulness or redundancy of narrative and its potentially adaptive
function. What are the right stories for such a broadband world?
How do contemporary American novelists respond to issues such as
the influence of the multinational corporation and its
predecessors, human rights Imperialism, the literary work as a
marketable commodity, translation as betrayal, data overload, and
the implosion of the virtual into the biosphere? Is globalisation
inevitable - or is it a fiction which fiction turns into reality?
Fictions of America explores these questions and looks at the
ways in which India, China and Africa can be said to have
underwritten American culture, how literature has been marketed
globally, and how novelists have answered back to power with
resistant fictions. Judie Newman examines a wide range of fiction
from the mid nineteenth to the twenty-first century including the
transnational adoption narrative, short story, historical novel,
slave narrative, international bestseller and Western to illustrate
her argument. Looking closely at authors such as Bharati Mukherjee,
John Updike, Emily Prager, Hannah Crafts, Zora Neale Hurston, David
Bradley, Peter Hoeg, and Cormac McCarthy, Fictions of America
provides a bold response to the crucial questions raised by
globalisation.
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