Cowart's new study

[Michel Ryckx]

Looks promising:

David Cowart
http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/faculty/faculty_pages/cowart/cowart.html

[quote]


          Current Research Project

A book on what I tentatively think of as a post-Pynchon (and 
post-DeLillo) generation of American novelists. Were there not daughters 
involved, I would call the project "Sons of Pyn," for I see parallels 
between the early twenty-first century in America and the early 
seventeenth in England (where a generation of poets saw themselves as 
the "sons" of Ben Jonson). I'm interested in writers who seem to be 
Pynchon's inheritors: Richard Powers and Stewart O'Nan and Octavia 
Butler and (with less enthusiasm on my part) David Foster Wallace and T. 
C. Boyle and Jonathan Franzen. Gloria Naylor may yet write the final 
volume of the roman fleuve that has its finest chapter *thus far* in 
Mama Day (1988). These writers seem not to labor under any "anxiety of 
influence" as they carry forward the project begun by their immediate 
predecessors: defining a postmodern America.

Though focusing on writers born in the 40s, 50s, and 60s, I will 
naturally consider the ways in which they relate to their most 
distinguished predecessors in the generation born in the 30s*not only 
Pynchon and DeLillo but Updike, Roth, Morrison, Cormac McCarthy, and 
others. How does Naylor rethink Morrison's African American novels of 
manners and ideas? In what spirit does Chang-rae Lee introduce Asian 
Americans into the suburbs of Updike and Cheever? What becomes of the 
encyclopedic novel of Pynchon and Gaddis in the hands of Richard Powers?

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