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1. Utopia and Terror in Contemporary American Fiction

   By Judie Newman

   Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

   This book examines the quest for/failure of Utopia across a range of contemporary American/transnational fictions in relation to terror and globalization through authors such as Susan Choi, André Dubus, Dalia Sofer, and John Updike. While recent critical thinkers have reengaged with Utopia, the...

   Published January 15th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Transnationalism of American Culture

   Literature, Film, and Music

   Edited by Rocío Davis

   Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

   This book studies the transnational nature of American cultural production, specifically literature, film, and music, examining how these serve as ways of perceiving the United States and American culture. The volume’s engagement with the reality of transnationalism focuses on material examples...

   Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
3. American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History

   By Peter Swirski

   Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

   The United States today is afflicted with political alienation, militarized violence, institutionalized poverty, and social agony. Worst of all, perhaps, it is afflicted with chronic and acute ahistoricism. America insist on ignoring the context of its present dilemmas. It insists on forgetting...

   Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
4. Nabokov, History and the Texture of Time

   By Will Norman

   Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

   This book argues that the apparent evasion of history in Vladimir Nabokov’s fiction conceals a profound engagement with social, and therefore political, temporalities. While Nabokov scholarship has long assumed the same position as Nabokov himself — that his works exist in a state of historical...

   Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
5. Don DeLillo

   The Possibility of Fiction

   By Peter Boxall

   Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

   One of the few available books of criticism on the topic, this monograph presents the fullest account to date of Don DeLillo's writing, situating his oeuvre within a wider analysis of the condition of contemporary fiction, and dealing with his entire work in relation to contemporary political and...

   Published June 28th 2012 by Routledge
6. New Woman Hybridities

   Femininity, Feminism, and International Consumer Culture, 1880–1930

   Edited by MARGARET BEETHAM, Ann Heilmann

   Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

   Since the 1970s, the literary and cultural politics of the turn-of-the-century New Woman have received increasing academic attention. Whether she is seen as the emblem of sexual anarchy, an agent of mediation between mass market and modernist cultures, or as a symptom of the consolidation of...

   Published June 28th 2012 by Routledge
7. Remapping Citizenship and the Nation in African-American Literature

   By Stephen Knadler

   Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

   Through a reading of periodicals, memoirs, speeches, and fiction from the antebellum period to the Harlem Renaissance, this study re-examines various myths about a U.S. progressive history and about an African American counter history in terms of race, democracy, and citizenship. Reframing 19th...

   Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
8. The Western Landscape in Cormac McCarthy and Wallace Stegner

   Myths of the Frontier

   By Megan Riley McGilchrist

   Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

   The western American landscape has always had great significance in American thinking, requiring an unlikely union between frontier mythology and the reality of a fragile western environment. Additionally it has borne the burden of being a gendered space, seen by some as the traditional "virgin...

   Published February 23rd 2012 by Routledge
9. Travel and Dislocation in Contemporary American Fiction

   By Aliki Varvogli

   Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

   This book offers a critical study and analysis of American fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It focuses on novels that ‘go outward’ literally and metaphorically, and it concentrates on narratives that take place mainly away from the US’s geographical borders. Varvogli draws on...

   Published October 9th 2011 by Routledge
10. Transnationalism and American Serial Fiction

    By Patricia Okker

    Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

    Transnationalism and American Serial Fiction explores the vibrant tradition of serial fiction published in U.S. minority periodicals. Beloved by readers, these serial novels helped sustain the periodicals and communities in which they circulated. With essays on serial fiction published from the...

    Published September 18th 2011 by Routledge