Hicks, Tribes and Dirty Realists: American Fiction After Postmodernism - Hardcover

Rebein, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813121760 ISBN 13: 9780813121765

Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky, 2001

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Book by Rebein Robert

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Eschewing allegiance to particular literary movements, Robert Rebein offers a shrewd topographical map of contemporary American fiction. Rebein argues that much literary fiction of the 1980s and 90s represents a triumphant, if tortured, return to questions about place and the individual that inspired the works of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Faulkner, and other giants of American literature. Concentrating on the realist bent and regional orientation in contemporary fiction, he discusses in detail the various names by which this fiction has been described, including literary post-modemism, minimalism, Hick Chic, Dirty Realism, ecofeminism, and more. Rebein's clearly written, nuanced inter-pretations of works by Raymond Carver, Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Louise Erdrich, Dorothy Allison, Barbara Kingsolver, E. Annie Proulx, Chris Offutt, and others will appeal to a wide range of readers.

Biografía del autor

Robert Rebein is assistant professor of English and creative writing at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis.

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• Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0813121760
• ISBN 13: 9780813121765
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248