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Dissenting Fictions Identity and Resistance in the Contemporary American Novel
By Cathy Moses
Copyright 2000
188 Pages
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Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study elucidates the relationship between identity formation and resistance to racial and sexual oppression in a group of contemporary American novels the author terms dissenting fictions, narratives that assert the subjectivity and historicity of marginalized peoples at precisely the moment when postmodern critiques proclaim the death of the subject and the inaccessibility of historical... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction:; Chapter 2 The Unbearable Whiteness of Being and the Africanist Presence in Russell Banks's Continental Drift; Chapter 3 Playing in History's Dark: The Struggle for Agency in Toni Morrison's Jazz; Chapter 4 Identity, Masculinity, and Desire in David Bradley's Fiction; Chapter 5 The Center of Power is Nothing: Storytelling, History, and Resistance in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead; Chapter 6 Queering Class:; Afterword;
Biography
Cathy Moses
"Moses has produced a compact, rigorous, and closely argued text. All collections." -- Choice
