American Fiction of the 1990s

[Henry]

American Fiction of the 1990s
http://tinyurl.com/6rerpv 
Reflections of history and culture
Edited by Jay Prosser

Table of Contents
1. Introduction - Jay Prosser. 

Transnational Borders. 
2. Outside In: Latino/a Un-bordering in US Fiction - A. Robert Lee. 
3. "Come change your destiny, turn suffering into silver and joy":
Constituting Americans - Nahem Yousaf. 
4. America as Diaphor: Cultural Translation in Bharati Mukherjee's The
Holder of the World - Krishna Sen. 

Race Cathexes. 
5. Red, White and Black: Racial Exchanges in Fiction by Sherman Alexie -
Andrew Dix. 
6. In the Shadow of the Gun: African-American Fiction and the Anxieties of
Nostalgia - Andrew Warnes. 
7. Tragic No More?: The Reappearance of the Racially Mixed Character -
Suzanne W. Jones. 

Historical Narratives. 
8. The Way We Were(n't): Origins and Empire in Thomas Pynchon's Mason &
Dixon - Stacey Olster. 
9. Contesting the Historical Pastoral in Philip Roth's American Trilogy -
Derek Parker Royal. 
10. Skating on a shit field: Tim O'Brien and the topography of trauma -
Brian Jarvis. 

Sex Images. 
11. A Painful Progress: Queer Fiction and the American Protest Literature
Tradition - Zoe Trodd. 
12. Regular Lolitas: The Afterlives of an American Adolescent - Kasia Boddy.

13. Glamorama, Fight Club, and the Terror of Narcissistic Abjection - Alex
Blazer. 

Postmodern Technologies. 
14. Beyond the Cold War in Don DeLillo's Mao II and Underworld - Peter
Knight. 
15. Selfless Cravings: Addiction and Recovery in David Foster Wallace's
Infinite Jest - Timothy Aubry. 
16. The End of Postmodernism: American Fiction at the Millennium - Stephen
J. Burn.


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