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Fictive fathers in the contemporary American novel / Debra Shostak.
Van Pelt Library PS374.F35 S56 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shostak, Debra B., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fathers in literature.
- Father and child in literature.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 276 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
- Summary:
- "Investigates the unstable construction of white masculinity in the United States through close analysis of father-child relationships in the novels of 18 American writers in the late 20th and early 21st centuries"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Anxieties of Influence and the Decline of the Patriarch
- Middle-class America at Mid-century
- Desiring Daughters
- Searching Sons, the Word, and the Flesh
- The Father in the Apocalyptic Imagination. Part One: The Environment
- The Fatherr in the Apocalyptic Imagination. Part One: The Environment
- The Father in the Apocalyptic Imagination. Part Two: Politics and 9/11
- Postmemory after the Patriarch: Narrating the War in Vietnam.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Shostak, Debra, Fictive fathers in the contemporary American novel
- ISBN:
- 9781501340048
- 1501340042
- OCLC:
- 1110441048
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