Dissenting fictions : identity and resistance in the contemporary American novel / Cathy Moses.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Moses, Cathy.

Series:

• Literary criticism and cultural theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
• American fiction.
• Politics and literature--United States--History and criticism.
• American fiction--Minority authors--History and criticism.
• American fiction--Minority authors.
• Protest literature, American--History and criticism.
• Political fiction, American--History and criticism.
• Political fiction, American.
• Identity (Psychology) in literature.
• Group identity in literature.
• Ethnic groups in literature.
• Minorities in literature.
• Dissenters in literature.
• Ethnicity in literature.
• Protest literature, American.
• Politics and literature.
• United States.

Physical Description:

xi, 172 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Garland Pub., 2000.

Contents:

• Chapter 1 Introduction: The Dissenting Subject 1
• Chapter 2 The Unbearable Whiteness of Being and the Africanist Presence in Russell Bank's Continental Drift 17
• Chapter 3 Playing in History's Dark: The Struggle for Agency in Toni Morrison's Jazz 35
• Chapter 4 Identity, Masculinity, and Desire in David Bradley's Fiction 55
• Chapter 5 The Center of Power is Nothing: Storytelling, History, and Resistance in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead 83
• Chapter 6 Queering Class: Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues 123
• Afterword: "Sabotage and Subversion, Then, Are This Book's Objectives" 151.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0815336535

OCLC:

43481731